Émile Perrin

Émile-César-Victor Perrin was a French painter, mainly known as a theatre director and impresario, born in Rouen on 9 January 1814, died 8 October 1885.

[2] Perrin studied under Gros and Delaroche, and pursued a career as a history painter, exhibiting at the Salon.

During this time he employed Bizet to play through scores submitted to the Opéra, although Perrin did not assist the composer in getting his work performed there.

Victorien Sardou in a letter described Perrin as "the most volatile, the most capricious, the most changeable of men".

[4] In 1875, he was brought in to arbitrate in a dispute between Bizet and the directors of the Opéra-Comique over the preparations for Carmen, despite the fact that he loathed the piece.