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Madame Gonthier
Rose Françoise Carpentier called Madame Gonthier 7 December 1829, was a French actress and lyrical artist. Life Born in Metz, her aptitude for theatrical arts is said to have been apparent from childhood, and a few society successes prove her aptitude for comic roles. She played in the provinces and in Brussels from 1771 to 1777. She was a member of the Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine's company at theatre La Monnaie. She made her debut in 1778, as a boarder at the Comédie-Italienne . At the beginning, she played the soubrettes, but while still young, she devoted herself to performing the duègnes (duennas) and the old peasant women. She played on 18 March of the same year, Simone in ''Le sorcier'' by Philidor, then the mother Bobi, in ''Rose et Colas'' by Monsigny, and Alix, in ''Les trois fermiers'' by Dezède. In 1779, she was admitted as a member of the Comédie-Italienne. She successively played comedy and comic opera. Her appearance at the théâtre de la sal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madame Gonthier (cropped)
Rose Françoise Carpentier called Madame Gonthier (4 March 1747 – 7 December 1829), was a French actress and lyrical artist. Life Born in Metz in 1747, her aptitude for theatrical arts is said to have been apparent from childhood, and a few society successes proved her aptitude for comic roles. She played in the provinces and in Brussels from 1771 to 1777, where she was a member of theatre La Monnaie's company, which was sponsored by Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine, governor of the Austrian Netherlands In 1778 she made her debut in Paris, at the Comédie-Italienne (into which the Opéra-Comique had been merged) being engaged for the roles of ''duègnes'' (duennas) : on 18, 19 and 21 Mars she performed the role of Simone in ''Le sorcier'' by Philidor, then the mother Bobi, in ''Rose et Colas'' by Monsigny, and finally Alix, in the premiere of ''Les trois fermiers'' by Dezède. Thanks to her success, on 2 May of the same year, with an act signed by the Duke of Ric ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Pierre Claris De Florian
Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian (March 6, 1755 in the château of Florian, near Sauve, Gard – September 13, 1794 in Sceaux) was a French poet, novelist and fabulist. Life Florian's mother, a Spanish lady named Gilette de Salgues, died when he was a child. He was brought up by his grandfather and studied at St. Hippolyte. His uncle and guardian, the Marquis of Florian, who had married a niece of Voltaire, introduced him at the château de Ferney and in 1768 he became page at Anet in the household of the Duc de Penthièvre, who remained his friend throughout his life. Having studied for some time at the artillery school at Bapaume he obtained from his patron a captain's commission in the dragoon regiment of Penthièvre. He left the army soon after and began to write comedies, and was elected to the Académie française in 1788. On the outbreak of the French Revolution he retired to Sceaux, but he was soon discovered and imprisoned; and though Robespierre's death spared h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis Emmanuel Jadin
Louis-Emmanuel Jadin (21 September 1768 – 11 April 1853) was a French composer, pianist and harpsichordist. Jadin was born in Versailles. He learned piano from his brother Hyacinthe Jadin and later worked at the Théâtre de Monsieur. His first opera was staged in Versailles in 1788. The following year he took the position of second keyboardist at the Théâtre de Monsieur. In 1792 he became a musician in the National Guard. In 1802 he acted as a professor of music and in 1806 was director of the Théâtre Molière. He later won fame as a pianist and taught at the Paris Conservatory. He was made Chevalier of the Légion d’honneur in 1824. Many of his works were published in Paris, where he died. The playwright and chansonnier Adolphe Jadin was his son. Selected works Operas *1788 ''Guerre ouverte ou Ruse contre ruse'' 3 Acts *1790 ''Constance et Gernand'' 1 Act *1790 ''Joconde'' after Jean de La Fontaine Jean de La Fontaine (, , ; 8 July 162113 April 1695) was a Fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles-Joseph Loeillard D'Avrigny
Charles-Joseph Loeillard d'Avrigny (c. 1760 in Martinique – 17 September 1823) was a French poet and librettist. He was married to the soprano Rose Renaud.Fétis, François-Joseph (1878)"Renaud, Rose" '' Biographie universelle des musiciens'' (2nd edition). Vol. 7, p. 229. Didot Works *1790: ''Les Brouilleries'', opéra comique, composed by Henri-Montan Berton *1793: ''Eugène ou la Piété filiale, opéra-comique'', also composed by Henri-Montan Berton *1794: ''La Lettre'', one-act comedy, in prose and vaudevilles, Paris, Libraire au Théâtre du vaudeville *1807: ''Le Départ de La Pérouse ou les Navigateurs modernes'', poem, Paris, Léopold Collin *1812: ''Poésies nationales'', Paris, Le Normant *1819: ''Jeanne d'Arc à Rouen'', five-act tragady, in verse, Paris, Pierre-François Ladvocat, Ladvocat *1846: ''Une expiation'', four-act drama, mingled with song, Bruxelles, J.A. Lelong * ''Tableau historique des commencements et des progrès de la puissance britannique dans l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Premiere
A première, also spelled premiere, is the debut (first public presentation) of a play, film, dance, or musical composition. A work will often have many premières: a world première (the first time it is shown anywhere in the world), its first presentation in each country, and an online première (the first time it is published on the Internet). When a work originates in a country that speaks a different language from that in which it is receiving its national or international première, it is possible to have two premières for the same work in the same country—for example, the play ''The Maids'' by the French dramatist Jean Genet received its British première (which also happened to be its world première) in 1952, in a production given in the French language. Four years later, it was staged again, this time in English, which was its English-language première in Britain. History Raymond F. Betts attributes the introduction of the film premiere to showman Sid Grauman, who ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacques Marie Boutet
Jacques Marie Boutet (25 March 1745 – 13 February 1812) was a French actor and comic playwright from Lunéville. His pseudonym was Monvel. He was a small, thin man without good looks or voice, and yet he became one of the greatest comedians of his time. Biography After some years of apprenticeship in the provinces, he made his debut in 1770 at the Comédie-Française in Merope and Zenaide; he was received sociétaire in 1772. For some unknown reason, Monvel secretly left Paris for Sweden in 1781, as the head of a troupe of French actors. He became reader to the king, a post which he held for several years. Until 1786, he was the director for the French theatre in Bollhuset and had a great importance for the development for the organisation of the native Swedish theater as the educator of the first Swedish actors for the Royal Dramatic Theatre, such as Fredrique Löwen, Lars Hjortsberg and Maria Franck, in the modern style of acting; among his troupe of French actors was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicolas Dalayrac
Nicolas-Marie d'Alayrac (; bapt. 13 June 175326 November 1809), nicknamed the Musician poet, more commonly Nicolas Dalayrac, was a French composer of the Classical period. Intended for a military career, he made the acquaintance of many musicians in the Parisian salons, which convinced him of his true vocation. Among his most popular works, '' Nina, or The Woman Crazed with Love'' (1786), which tackles the theme of madness and arouses real enthusiasm during its creation, premiered on 23 November at the Stroganov Palace. '' The Two Little Savoyards'' (1789), which deals with the rapprochement of social classes, a theme bearing the ideals of the French Revolution, Camille ou le Souterrain (1791), judged as his best production or even Léon ou le Château de Monténéro (1798) who by his leitmotifs announces a new genre. If he forges an international reputation, he remains nevertheless less known in the lyrical field than André Grétry. His first compositions were violin du ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Nicolas Bouilly
Jean-Nicolas Bouilly (24 January 1763 – 14 April 1842) was a French playwright, librettist, children's writer, and politician of the French Revolution. He is best known for writing a libretto, supposedly based on a true story, about a woman who disguises herself as a man to rescue her husband from prison, which formed the basis of Beethoven's opera ''Fidelio'' as well as a number of other operas. Life Bouilly was born near Tours, and was briefly a lawyer for the Parlement de Paris. At the outbreak of the Revolution he held office under the new government and was head of the military commission in Tours during the Reign of Terror. In 1795, he served as a member of the Committee of Public Instruction having a considerable share in the organization of primary education, but retired from public life four years later in order to devote himself to literature. Bouilly died in Paris. Works ;Theatre *1790: ''Pierre le Grand'', comedy in 4 acts and in prose,mingled with singing, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Libretto
A libretto (Italian for "booklet") is the text used in, or intended for, an extended musical work such as an opera, operetta, masque, oratorio, cantata or Musical theatre, musical. The term ''libretto'' is also sometimes used to refer to the text of major liturgical works, such as the Mass (liturgy), Mass, requiem and sacred cantata, or the story line of a ballet. ''Libretto'' (; plural ''libretti'' ), from Italian, is the diminutive of the word ''wiktionary:libro#Italian, libro'' ("book"). Sometimes other-language equivalents are used for libretti in that language, ''livret'' for French works, ''Textbuch'' for German and ''libreto'' for Spanish. A libretto is distinct from a synopsis or scenario of the plot, in that the libretto contains all the words and stage directions, while a synopsis summarizes the plot. Some ballet historians also use the word ''libretto'' to refer to the 15 to 40 page books which were on sale to 19th century ballet audiences in Paris and contained a ve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
André Grétry
André Ernest Modeste Grétry (; baptised 11 February 1741; died 24 September 1813) was a composer from the Prince-Bishopric of Liège (present-day Belgium), who worked from 1767 onwards in France and took French nationality. He is most famous for his '' opéras comiques''. Biography He was born at Liège, his father being a poor musician. He was a choirboy at the church of St. Denis (Liège). In 1753 he became a pupil of Jean-Pantaléon Leclerc and later of the organist at St-Pierre de Liège, Nicolas Rennekin, for keyboard and composition and of Henri Moreau, music master at the collegiate church of St. Paul. But of greater importance was the practical tuition he received by attending the performance of an Italian opera company. Here he heard the operas of Baldassarre Galuppi, Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, and other masters; and the desire of completing his own studies in Italy was the immediate result. To find the necessary means he composed in 1759 a mass which he dedicat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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