Hector-Jonathan Crémieux

French librettist and playwright

Hector-Jonathan Crémieux (10 November 1828 – 30 September 1893) 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. In 1887, Crémieux became the secretary-general of the bank Société des Dépôts et Comptes Courants, and ceased writing.

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