Maurice Ordonneau

Maurice Ordonneau (18 June 1854 – 14 November 1916) was a French dramatist and composer. The son of a merchant of eau de vie, Ordonneau was a prolific author in creating theatrical works. He composed, often with the collaboration of other playwrights, composers and musicians, a great number of operettas, opéra-bouffes, comedies and vaudevilles.

During some months after the death of the playwright Jean Gascogne, Ordonneau was responsible for the drama critic at La Libre Parole

Principal works

1874: Les Rosières de carton, comedy, with Henry Buguet 1876: La Bague de Turlurette, comedy with Ernest Hamm 1876: Les Vacances de Toto, Comédie en vaudevilles, with Victor Bernard 1877: Zigzags dans Versailles, comedy, with Ernest Hamm 1877: Les Cris-Cris de Paris, comedy 1878: Minuit moins cinq !, vaudeville, with Victor Bernard 1879: L'Assommoir pour rire, vaudeville 1880: Théâtre de famille, operetta with Gustave Nadaud, with Eugène Verconsin 1880: Les Deux chambres, operetta 1881: Madame Grégoire, operetta, with Paul Burani 1883: L'Heure du berger, vaudeville 1883: Le Réveil de Vénus, comedy, with Paul Burani, with Henri Cermoise 1883: Les Parisiens en province, comedy with Hippolyte Raymond 1885: L'Ablette, comedy 1885: Les Petites Godin, vaudeville 1885: Mon oncle!, comédie-bouffe, with Paul Burani 1885: Cherchons papa, vaudeville, with Victor Bernard 1886: Serment d'amour, opéra comique, with Edmond Audran 1887: La Princesse Colombine, opéra comique, with Émile André 1887: La Fiancée des verts poteaux, opéra comique, with Edmond Audran 1887: Durand & Durand, vaudeville 1887: Maître Corbeau, comedy, with Hippolyte Raymond 1888: La Poupée, opéra comique after Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann, with Edmond Audran 1888: Monsieur Coq-Héron l'avoué, comedy, with Paul Siraudin, with Alfred Delacour, Hippolyte Raymond and Lambert-Thiboust, 1891: L'oncle Célestin, opérette bouffe, with Edmond Audran and Henri Kéroul 1891: La Petite Poucette, vaudeville-opérette, with Maurice Hennequin and Raoul Pugno 1891: Les Boulinard, operetta 1892: La Femme du commissaire, vaudeville 1892: La Plantation Thomassin, vaudeville, with Albert Vizentini 1893: Mademoiselle ma femme, opéra comique, with Frédéric Toulmouche, libretto cosigned with Octave Pradels 1893: Madame Suzette, operetta, with André Sylvane and Edmond Audran 1893: Cousin-cousine, operetta, with Henri Kéroul, with Gaston Serpette 1894: La Vertu de Lolotte, comedy 1895: L'Article 214, comedy, with André Sylvane 1895: La Marraine de Charley, comédie-bouffe, with Brandon Thomas 1895: Au coin du feu, operetta 1895: La St-Valentin, opéra comique 1895: La Perle du Cantal, operetta 1895: Le Pèlerinage, comedy, with Maxime Boucheron 1896: La falote, opérette, with Louis Varney and Armand Liorat 1896: Paris quand même ! ou Les deux bigorret, comédie-bouffe, with Ernest Grenet-Dancourt 1897: Niobé, opérette, with Harry Paulton 1897: L'Auberge du Tohu-Bohu, vaudeville-opérette 1899: Les Sœurs Gaudichard, opéra comique 1899: Les Saltimbanques, opérette, with Louis Ganne 1899: Les Sœurs Gaudichard, opéra comique, with Edmond Audran 1899: Le Curé Vincent, operetta 1902: Madame Sherry, operetta, with Hugo Felix 1902: Le Jockey malgré lui, opéra-bouffe, with Paul Gavault 1902: L'Étude Tocasson, vaudeville, with Albin Valabrègue 1903: Le Voyage des Berluron, vaudeville, with Ernest Grenet-Dancourt and Henri Kéroul 1904: Les Hirondelles, operetta, with Henri Hirschmann 1905: Les Filles Jackson et cie, operetta, with Justin Clérice 1905: Une affaire scandaleuse, vaudeville, with Paul Gavault 1910: La D’moiselle du Tabarin, operetta, with André Alexandre 1911: Helda, operetta, with Auguste M. Fechner, Tom de Godement and Michel Farlane 1911: La Marquise de Chicago, operetta 1912: Trois amoureuses, operetta 1913: La Petite Manon, opéra comique, with André Heuzé and Henri Hirschmann 1913: Éva, comédie, with Alfred Maria Willner, with Robert Bodanzky 1913: Le Roi des montagnes, opéra comique 1915: La Cocarde de Mimi-Pinson, operetta, with Henri Goublier 1916: La Demoiselle du printemps, operetta, with Henri Goublier fils, Francis Gally and Georges Léglise