Adélaïde_Gavaudan

Adélaïde Gavaudan

Adélaïde Gavaudan

French lyrical artist

Marie-Françoise-Adélaïde Gavaudan, called Mlle Gavaudan cadette[1] and nicknamed Spinette (1767[2]–1805), was a French operatic soprano.

Life

Gavaudan is the daughter of Denis Gavaudan and Catherine Calmen, a member of the Gavaudan family, which reigns at the Opéra-Comique; sister of Anne-Marie-Jeanne [fr], Jean-Baptiste-Sauveur and Émilie [fr].[3]

In 1780, she was hired with her sister Émilie, by Madame Donvilliers, of the Petits Comédiens de la Muette [de].[4]

She was a chorister in 1778, at the Académie royale de musique. She already sang important roles, such as that of Angélique in the revival of Roland by Piccinni in October 1782. On 8 July 1782, she made her debut at the Comédie-Italienne, as Mme Saintclair, in La Fausse Magie by Gretry; then as Alix, in Les Trois fermiers de Dezède; as Aline, in la Belle Arsène, but she was not hired by this company.[5]

She was coryphée in 1784, at the Académie Royale de Musique. She became an assistant in 1786.[5] She came to prominence in 1787 with the role of Spinette in Tarare by Salieri, she retained the sobriquet of "Spinette"[6] During the Revolution, she fled Paris for Germany, then returned. In 1793, she remained at the Opéra; as a singing artist, attached to this company at least until 1798.[5]

In 1796, she joined the troupe of the Théâtre Feydeau, where she created Ziméo (Martini, 1800). In 1802, when Feydeau's troupe was combined with that of the Opéra-Comique, she retired from the stage and emigrated to Hamburg.

Creations

At the Académie royale de musique
At Théâtre Feydeau

References

  1. [1]
    The singer's personal data comply with those stated by the Dictionnaire de l’Opéra de Paris sous l’Ancien Régime (article: "Gavaudan (la cadette), Marie-Françoise-Adélaïde", by France Marchal-Ninosque, p. 804). The website Almanacco di Gherardo Casaglia attributes to her instead the names of Alexandrine-Adelaïde Gavaudan-Ducamel and Alexandrine-Adelaïde Gavaudan-Joinville, but both obviously derive from an erroneous mix between the singer herself and two contemporary colleagues: her sister-in-law Alexandrine-Marie-Agathe Gavaudan-Ducamel, soprano of the Opéra-Comique, and Suzanne Joinville (1758–1804), soprano of the Paris Opéra who had debuted alongside Adélaïde's elder sister Anne-Marie-Jeanne [fr].
  2. [2]
    According to Kutsch and Riemens, Adelaide was born in 1762 instead.
  3. [3]
    Kutsch and Riemens.
  4. [4]
    "Bulletin de la Société historique d'Auteuil et de Passy". Gallica. Société historique d'Auteuil et de Passy. 1920. Retrieved 29 May 2021.
  5. [5]
    "Le Ménestrel". Gallica. 7 July 1872. Retrieved 29 May 2021.
  6. [6]
    "Le Ménestrel". Gallica. 7 July 1872. Retrieved 29 May 2021.
  7. [7]
    Gavaudan, Adelaïde; Girardin, Mlle; Maillard, Mademoiselle; Lays, François (1782). L'embarras des richesses. Retrieved 29 May 2021.
  8. [8]
    Sacchini, Antonio (1784). "Chimène ou le Cid". Gallica (in French). Retrieved 29 May 2021.
  9. [9]
    Almanach littéraire, ou étrennes d'Apollon (in French). Veuve Duchesne. 1785. Retrieved 29 May 2021.
  10. [10]
    "Pénélope – Spectacle – 1785". data.bnf.fr. Retrieved 29 May 2021.
  11. [11]
    "Phèdre – Spectacle – 1786". data.bnf.fr. Retrieved 29 May 2021.
  12. [12]
    "Les Horaces – Spectacle – 1786". data.bnf.fr. Retrieved 29 May 2021.
  13. [13]
    "Tarare – Spectacle – 1787". data.bnf.fr. Retrieved 29 May 2021.
  14. [14]
    Gaveaux, Pierre (1800). "Le locataire, opéra comique en un acte, lyrics by Sevrin, music by P. Gaveaux". Gallica. Retrieved 29 May 2021.

Sources

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Adélaïde Gavaudan.
Share this article:

This article uses material from the Wikipedia article Adélaïde_Gavaudan, and is written by contributors. Text is available under a CC BY-SA 4.0 International License; additional terms may apply. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.