Arnold Mortier
French journalist, playwright and librettist / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Arnold Mortier (1843 – 2 January 1885[1]) was a 19th-century French journalist, playwright, and librettist.
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.[2]
Mortier cosigned the libretto of the opéra-bouffe Le Docteur Ox by Jacques Offenbach, created in 1877.
He also participated to the writing of the following:
- Le voyage dans la lune, opéra-féerie in four acts and 23 scenes by Jacques Offenbach (1875)
- L'arbre de Noël (with Georges Jacobi) (1880)