Charles Nuitter

Charles Nuitter (1828–1899) wrote or co-authored 60 opera libretti and ballet scenarios for Offenbach, Hervé, Guiraud, Delibes, Lalo, Lecocq and others, and translated Verdi's, Wagner's, Weber's, Bellini's and Mozart's libretti for the Paris audience (Wagner and Verdi esteemed highly the quality of his translations.) He gave up his work as a lawyer in order and wholly devoted himself to archiving sources at the Paris Opera from 1861 and insured that their importance was taken in to account when the Palais Garnier opened in 1875.

References

• Musikwissenschaftliche Publicationen, Herausgegeben von Herbert Schneider, Band 18, Valérie Gressel: Charles Nuitter: Des Scènes parisiennes à la Biblioteque de l’Opéra

External links

• NY Times review, May 17, 1896
• NY Times review by [[Anna Kisselgoff], December 8, 1985]
• NY Times review by [[Allan Kozinn], March 19, 1990]
• NY Times review by [[Jack Anderson (dance critic)|Jack Anderson], August 26, 1990]