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Hector-Jonathan Crémieux (10 November 1828 – 30 September 1892) was a French librettist and playwright. His best-known work is his collaboration with Ludovic Halévy for Jacques Offenbach's Orphée aux Enfers, known in English as Orpheus in the Underworld.
Crémieux was born in Paris to a Jewish family - he was related to the lawyer Adolphe Crémieux . He studied law and then worked in the civil service. His first play, Fiesque (1852) was a historical drama, but before long he started to write comedies and then, in collaboration, operetta and opéra comique librettos. His collaborations with Halévy were often written under the joint pseudonym Paul d'Arcy.
In 1887, Crémieux became secretary-general of the Société des Dépôts Comptes Courants, and ceased writing. Five years later, the Société collapsed and he committed suicide by gunshot in Paris.
La foire Saint-Laurent (1877) - with A de Saint-Albin
For Léo Delibes
Les eaux d’Ems (1861) - with Ludovic Halévy
For Hervé
Le petit Faust (1869) - with Louis-Adolphe Jaime
Les Turcs (1869) - with Louis-Adolphe Jaime
Le trône d'Écosse (1871) - with Louis-Adolphe Jaime
La veuve du Malabar (1873) - with A. Delacour
La belle poule (1875) - with A de Saint-Albin
For Léon Vasseur
La famille Trouillat (1874) - with Ernest Blum
Plays
Amongst the plays written by Hector-Jonathan Crémieux are:
Fiesque: drame en cinq actes et huit tableaux, en vers, d'après Schiller (1852) - with his brother, Émile Crémieux, and based on Friedrich Schiller's play Die Verschwörung des Fiesco zu Genua
Germaine: drame en cinq actes et huit tableaux (1858) - with Adolphe d'Ennery and based on Edmond About's novel of the same name
La voie sacrée, ou, Les étapes de la gloire: drame militaire en cinq actes (1859) - with Eugène Woestyn and Ernest Bourget
Le pied de mouton (1859) - with Charles-Théodore Cogniard and Jean-Hippolyte Cogniard
L'Abbe Constantin (1882) - with Pierre Decourcelle and based on Ludovic Halévy's novel of the same name
Autour du mariage (1883) - with the Comtesse de Martel and based on her novel of the same name
