Louise-Rosalie Lefebvre
Louise-Rosalie Lefebvre (18 June 1755 – 22 September 1821), also known as Madame Dugazon, was a French
Born in Berlin as the daughter of a dancing master at the court of
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-Henri Gourgaud, who went by the stage name Dugazon. Together they had a child, Gustave Dugazon. The couple soon divorced, but continued to perform at the Comédie Italienne for more than twenty years.
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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" in French opera. Examples of the first are Jenny in
Roles created
- 1779: Nicolette in Grétry)
- 1784: Laurette in Richard Coeur-de-lion (Grétry)
- 1786: Nina in Nina, Ou la folle par Amour (Dalayrac)[1]
References
- ^ Dalayrac, Nicolas (1789). Nina, Ou la folle par amour. Paris: Peytieux.
- Warrack, John and West, Ewan (1992), The Oxford Dictionary of Opera, 782 pages, ISBN 0-19-869164-5
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