Hector Crémieux

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Hector Crémieux

Hector Crémieux (born November 10, 1828 in Paris , † September 30, 1892 there ) was a French playwright and librettist.

Crémieux, who was related to the lawyer and politician Adolphe Crémieux , studied law in Paris. He participated as a lieutenant in the Civil Guard in the February Revolution of 1848 and was then in civil service.

In 1851 he and his brother Émile Crémieux wrote an adaptation of Schiller's Fiesco for the French stage. He wrote other dramas with Adolphe d 'Ennery , Eugène Woestyn , Ernest Bourget , Charles-Theodor Cogniard , Jean-Hippolyte Cogniard , the Comtesse de Martel , Ludovic Halévy , Philippe Gille , Henri Bocage and Ernest Blum .

As a librettist he worked for Jacques Offenbach , Léo Delibes , Hervé and Léon Vasseur . His best-known work is the libretto to Offenbach's Orpheus in the Underworld . In total he wrote more than forty-five plays and libretti. In 1864 he was named a Knight of the Legion of Honor.

Works

  • Fiesque: drame en cinq actes et huit tableaux, en vers, d'après Schiller , 1852
  • Le savetier et le financier (Operetta, J. Offenbach), 1856
  • Une demoiselle en loterie (Operetta, J. Offenbach), 1857
  • Orphée aux enfers (Operetta, J. Offenbach), 1858
  • Germaine: drame en cinq actes et huit tableaux , 1858
  • Geneviève de Brabant (Operetta, J. Offenbach), 1859
  • La voie sacrée, ou, Les étapes de la gloire: drame militaire en cinq actes , 1859
  • Le pied de mouton , 1859
  • La chanson de Fortunio (Operetta, J. Offenbach), 1861
  • Le pont des soupirs (Operetta, J. Offenbach), 1861
  • M. Choufleuri restera chez lui le. . . (Operetta, J. Offenbach), 1861
  • Le roman comique (Operetta, J. Offenbach), 1861
  • Les eaux d'Ems (Operetta, L. Delibes), 1861
  • Jacqueline , (Operetta, J. Offenbach), 1862
  • Les bergers (Operetta, J. Offenbach), 1865
  • Robinson Crusoé , (Operetta, J. Offenbach), 1867
  • Le petit Faust (Operetta, Hervé), 1869
  • Les Turcs (Operetta, Hervé), 1869
  • Le trône d'Écosse (Operetta, Hervé), 1871
  • La jolie parfumeuse , (Operetta, J. Offenbach), 1873
  • La veuve du Malabar (Operetta, Hervé), 1873
  • Bagatelle (Operetta, J. Offenbach), 1874
  • La famille Trouillat (Operetta, L.Vasseur), 1874
  • La belle poule (Operetta, Hervé), 1875
  • La foire Saint-Laurent (Operetta, J. Offenbach), 1877
  • L'Abbe Constantin , 1882
  • Autour du mariage , 1883
personal data
SURNAME Crémieux, Hector
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French playwright and librettist
DATE OF BIRTH November 10, 1828
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH September 30, 1892
Place of death Paris