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11 unusual facts about Maurice Maeterlinck


Andrey Bartenev

Bartenev has created costumes for theater plays: The Blue Bird by Maurice Maeterlinck in New York, Elizaveta Bam by Daniil Kharms in Moscow, Cinderella by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies in Hamburg.

Edward Julius Detmold

In 1911 Detmold worked on illustrations for Maurice Maeterlinck's "The Life of the Bee", Camille Lemonnier's "Birds and Beasts" and "The Book of Baby Beasts".

Extension Scouting

The Extension Scouting section in the Netherlands is named "Blauwe Vogels" (Blue Birds) after the play L'Oiseau Bleu by Maurice Maeterlinck.

John La Bouchardière

He returned to Lincoln Center for Performing Arts, New York in July 2013 to direct a controversial reimagining of Lera Auerbach's a cappella opera The Blind (based on the symbolist play by Maurice Maeterlinck), for which the audience was blindfolded throughout.

Malcolm Campbell

He christened his car Blue Bird, painting it blue, after seeing the play The Blue Bird by Maurice Maeterlinck at the Haymarket Theatre.

Mary Eaton

In 1911, all three sisters were hired for a production of Maurice Maeterlinck's fantasy play The Blue Bird at the Shubert Belasco Theatre in Washington.

Mr. Bug Goes to Town

It was originally meant to be an adaptation of Maurice Maeterlinck's The Life of the Bee, but the Fleischers were unable to get the rights to the book, and the studio came up with its own story inspired by The Life of the Bee instead.

Ozaki Kihachi

Ozaki also published Yama no Ehon (“Mountain Picture Book”) a collection of miscellaneous thoughts, and many translations of Romain Rolland, Herman Hesse, Rainer Maria Rilke, Maurice Maeterlinck and Georges Duhamel.

Ruth Gillmore

A fourth-generation actor on her father's side, Gillmore's first professional appearance was as an unborn child in Maurice Maeterlinck's The Betrothal in New York in 1918.

The Burgomaster of Stilemonde

It was based on the 1918 play Le Bourgmestre de Stilmonde by Maurice Maeterlinck.

Trio The Punch – Never Forget Me...

Though the scene can be interpreted as a parody of the Kentucky Fried Chicken food chain and Maurice Maeterlinck's play The Blue Bird, the two subjects bear little, if any, relation to each other or to the game itself.


Charles Martin Loeffler

His best-known works include the symphonic poems La Mort de Tintagiles (after Maeterlinck), La Bonne Chanson (after Verlaine), A Pagan Poem (after Virgil), and Memories of My Childhood (Life in a Russian Village), as well as the song-cycle Five Irish Fantasies (to words by W. B. Yeats and Heffernan), and the chamber works Music for Four String Instruments and Two Rhapsodies for oboe, viola and piano.

Clifford Marle

During his term as producer he dealt with all types of plays, from broadest farce to Maurice Maeterlinck's Mary Magdalene and was the first producer in England to stage a public performance of Eugene O'Neill's The Great God Brown.

Independent Theatre Society

In 1895, Grein invited Aurélien Lugné-Poe to present a season of productions in French, of Ibsen's Rosmersholm, The Master Builder and Maurice Maeterlinck's symbolist L'Intruse and Pelléas and Mélisande.

Maurice Chabas

In 1900, Chabas moved to Neuilly-sur-Seine, where his studio became a hub for scholars like Camille Flammarion, Charles Richet, Maurice Maeterlinck, Léon Bloy, Lucien Lévy-Brulh, Joséphin Péladan, Edouard Schuré, and René Guénon.

Roerich Pact

and costume designer for several operas and ballets by Maurice Maeterlinck and Igor Stravinsky, premiered in St. Petersburg.

Tatiana Shchepkina-Kupernik

She produced several well-known Russian translations of Edmond Rostand and Maurice Maeterlinck plays.