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Arnold Mortier (1843 – 2 January 1885) was a 19th-century French journalist, playwright, and
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''Les soirées parisiennes de [1874-] 1884''
19th-century French journalists French male journalists 19th-century French dramatists and playwrights French opera librettists 1843 births 1885 deaths 19th-century French male writers {{France-journalist-stub
Arnold Mortier (1843 – 2 January 1885) was a 19th-century French journalist, playwright, and librettist
A libretto (From the Italian word , ) is the text used in, or intended for, an extended musical work such as an opera, operetta, masque, oratorio, cantata or musical. The term ''libretto'' is also sometimes used to refer to the text of major ...
.
Arnold Mortier was responsible for the drama column at ''Le Figaro
() is a French daily morning newspaper founded in 1826. It was named after Figaro, a character in several plays by polymath Pierre Beaumarchais, Beaumarchais (1732–1799): ''Le Barbier de Séville'', ''The Guilty Mother, La Mère coupable'', ...
'', gathered in a collection entitled ''Les soirées parisiennes de 18NN par un Monsieur de l'orchestre''.
Mortier cosigned the libretto of the opéra-bouffe ''Le Docteur Ox
''Le docteur Ox'' is an opéra bouffe in three acts and six tableaux of 1877 with music by Jacques Offenbach. The French libretto was by Arnold Mortier and Philippe Gille, adapted from the 1872 short story '' Une fantaisie du docteur Ox'' by Jul ...
'' by Jacques Offenbach
Jacques Offenbach (; 20 June 18195 October 1880) was a German-born French composer, cellist and impresario. He is remembered for his nearly 100 operettas of the 1850s to the 1870s, and his uncompleted opera ''The Tales of Hoffmann''. He was a p ...
, created in 1877.
He also participated to the writing of the following:
* ''Le voyage dans la lune
''A Trip to the Moon'' ( , ) is a 1902 French science-fiction adventure trick film written, directed, and produced by Georges Méliès. Inspired by the Jules Verne novel ''From the Earth to the Moon'' (1865) and its sequel '' Around the Moon' ...
'', opéra-féerie in four acts and 23 scenes by Jacques Offenbach (1875)
* ''L'arbre de Noël'' (with Georges Jacobi
Georges Jacobi (3 February 1840 –13 September 1906) was a German violinist, composer and conductor who was musical director of the Alhambra Theatre in London from 1872 to 1898. His best-known work was probably '' The Black Crook'' (1872) wri ...
) (1880)
Works
* Arnold Mortier, ''Les Soirées parisiennes de 18NN : par un Monsieur de l'orchestre'', Paris, E. Dentu, 1875-188Read online
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''Les soirées parisiennes de [1874-] 1884''
19th-century French journalists French male journalists 19th-century French dramatists and playwrights French opera librettists 1843 births 1885 deaths 19th-century French male writers {{France-journalist-stub