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Arnold Mortier (1843 – 2 January 1885) was a 19th-century French journalist, playwright, and Prefaces by Emile Zola
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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 (Italian for "booklet") 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 litu ...
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Arnold Mortier was responsible for the drama column at ''Le Figaro
''Le Figaro'' () is a French daily morning newspaper founded in 1826. It is headquartered on Boulevard Haussmann in the 9th arrondissement of Paris. The oldest national newspaper in France, ''Le Figaro'' is one of three French newspapers of r ...
'', gathered in a collection entitled ''Les soirées parisiennes de 18NN par un Monsieur de l'orchestre''./ref> 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 (, also , , ; 20 June 18195 October 1880) was a German-born French composer, cellist and impresario of the Romantic period. He is remembered for his nearly 100 operettas of the 1850s to the 1870s, and his uncompleted opera ' ...
, created in 1877.
He also participated to the writing of the following:
* ''Le voyage dans la lune
''A Trip to the Moon'' (french: Le Voyage dans la Lune) is a 1902 French adventure film, adventure short film directed by Georges Méliès. Inspired by a wide variety of sources, including Jules Verne's 1865 novel ''From the Earth to 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) writt ...
) (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