Arnold Mortier
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Arnold Mortier (1843 – 2 January 1885[1]) was a 19th-century French journalist, playwright, and librettist.[2]
Arnold Mortier was responsible for the drama column at Le Figaro, gathered in a collection entitled Les soirées parisiennes de 18NN par un Monsieur de l'orchestre.[3]
Mortier cosigned the libretto of the opéra-bouffe Le docteur Ox by Jacques Offenbach, adapted from the 1872 short story Une fantaisie du docteur Ox by Jules Verne.
Works
[edit | edit source]- Le manoir de Pictordu (for Gaston Serpette, with Albert de Saint-Albin) (1875)
- Le voyage dans la lune (for Jacques Offenbach, with Albert Vanloo and Eugène Leterrier) (1875)
- Le docteur Ox (for Offenbach, with Philippe Gille) (1877)
- Yedda (for Olivier Métra, with Gille) (1879)
- L'arbre de Noël (for Charles Lecocq and Georges Jacobi, with Vanloo and Leterrier) (1880)
- Madame le diable (for Serpette, with Henri Meilhac) (1882)
- La farandole (for Théodore Dubois, with Gille) (1885)
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ BnF 146530324
- ^ Arnold Mortier, Les Soirées parisiennes de 18NN : par un Monsieur de l'orchestre, Paris, E. Dentu, 1875-1885. Read online, on Gallica.
- ^ Prefaces by Emile Zola
External links
[edit | edit source]- Arnold Mortier on data.bnf.fr
- Arnold Mortier on Wikisource
- Les soirées parisiennes de [1874-] 1884
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