Louise-Rosalie Lefebvre

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Louise-Rosalie Lefebvre

Louise-Rosalie Lefebvre, also known as Madame Dugazon (June 18 1755 - September 22 1821), was a French

French people

French people can refer to:* The legal residents and citizens of France, regardless of ancestry. For a legal discussion, see French nationality law....
opera

Opera

Opera is an Performing arts in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work which combines a text and a musical score. Opera is part of the Western classical music tradition....
tic mezzo-soprano

Mezzo-soprano

A mezzo-soprano is a type of European classical music female voice type whose range lies between the soprano and the contralto singing voices, usually extending from the A below middle C to the A two octaves above ....
, actress

Actor

An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
and dancer.

Born in Berlin

Berlin

Berlin is the Capital of Germany city and one of sixteen States of Germany of Germany. With a population of 3.4 million within its city limits, Berlin is the country's largest city....
as the daughter of a dancing master at the court of Frederick II of Prussia

Frederick II of Prussia

Frederick II was a monarch of Kingdom of Prussia from the House of Hohenzollern. In his role as a prince-elector of the Holy Roman Empire, he was Frederick IV of Margraviate of Brandenburg....
, she returned to Paris

Paris

Paris is the Capital of France and the country's largest city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the ?le-de-France Regions of France ....
with her parents in 1765. She made her stage debut at the age of twelve as a dancer, but it was as an actress "with songs" that she made her debut at the Comédie Italienne in 1774 in Grétry

André Ernest Modeste Grétry

Andr? Ernest Modeste Gr?try was acomposer from the Prince-Bishopric of Li?ge , who worked from 1767 onwards in France and took French nationality....
's Sylvain.

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Louise-Rosalie Lefebvre, also known as Madame Dugazon (June 18 1755 - September 22 1821), was a French

French people

French people can refer to:* The legal residents and citizens of France, regardless of ancestry. For a legal discussion, see French nationality law....
opera

Opera

Mezzo-soprano

Actor

An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
and dancer.

Born in Berlin

Berlin

Frederick II of Prussia

Paris

André Ernest Modeste Grétry

Andr? Ernest Modeste Gr?try was acomposer from the Prince-Bishopric of Li?ge , who worked from 1767 onwards in France and took French nationality....
's Sylvain. She was at once admitted pensionnaire and in 1775 sociétaire.

She became a star of the Comédie Italienne (which became the Opéra Comique), where she created over 60 roles. She was married to the actor Jean-Henry Gourgaud

Jean-Henry Gourgaud

Jean-Henri Gourgaud , France actor under the stage name Dugazon, was born in Marseille, the son of Dugazon p?re, the director of military hospitals there and also an actor....
, who went by the stage name Dugazon. The couple soon divorced, but continued to perform at the Comédie Italienne for more than twenty years. The two kinds of parts with which she was especially identified--young mothers and women past their first youth--are still called "jeunes dugazons" and "mères dugazons." Examples of the first are Jenny in La dame blanche
La Dame blanche

'La dame blanche' is an op?ra comique in three acts by the France composer Fran?ois-Adrien Bo?eldieu . The libretto was written by Eug?ne Scribe and is based on episodes from no less than five of the works by Scotland writer Sir Walter Scott, including his novels The Monastery, Guy Mannering, and The Abbot....
and Berthe de Simiane in Les mousquetaires de la reine; of the second, Marguerite in Le Pré aux clercs
Le Pré aux clercs

Le Pr? aux clercs is an opera in three acts by Ferdinand H?rold with a libretto by Fran?ois-Antoine-Eug?ne de Planard that is based on Prosper M?rim?e's Chronique du temps de Charles IX....
and the queen in La part du diable. The type of voice for these roles is a light mezzo soprano or a dark-colored soprano

Soprano

A soprano is a voice type with a vocal range from approximately to "high A" in choral music, or to "soprano C" or higher in operatic music. In four part chorale style harmony the soprano takes the highest part which usually encompasses the melody....
leggero.

Roles created

1779: Nicolette in Aucassin et Nicolette
Aucassin et Nicolette (opera)

Aucassin et Nicolette, ou Les moeurs du bon vieux tems is a French com?die mise en musique in four acts by Andr? Gr?try. The work was first performed at Versailles on 30 December, 1779 and at the Com?die-Italienne....
(Grétry
André Ernest Modeste Grétry

Andr? Ernest Modeste Gr?try was acomposer from the Prince-Bishopric of Li?ge , who worked from 1767 onwards in France and took French nationality....
)
1784: Laurette in Richard Coeur-de-lion
Richard Coeur-de-lion (opera)

Richard Coeur-de-lion is an op?ra comique, described as a com?die mise en musique, by the Belgian composer Andr? Ernest Modeste Gr?try, was by Michel-Jean Sedaine....
(Grétry)