Louise-Rosalie Lefebvre, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Louise-Rosalie Lefebvre

French actress, dancer, and singer

Date of Birth: 18-Jun-1755

Place of Birth: Berlin

Date of Death: 22-Sep-1821

Profession: actor, stage actor, opera singer, dancer

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Louise-Rosalie Lefebvre (18 June 1755 – 22 September 1821), also known as Madame Dugazon, was a French operatic mezzo-soprano, actress and dancer. Born in Berlin as the daughter of a dancing master at the court of Frederick II of Prussia, she returned to Paris 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'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-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. 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 La dame blanche and Berthe de Simiane in Les mousquetaires de la reine; of the second, Marguerite in Le Pré aux clercs 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 leggero, and they are generally less demanding technically.



Alternative names	Marie Louise Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun; Vigée-Le Brun; Élisabeth-Louise Vigée-Le Brun
Description	French portrait painter
Date of birth/death	16 April 1755	30 March 1842
Location of birth/death	Paris	Paris
Authority control	: Q213163 VIAF: 59113411 ISNI: 0000 0001 1651 5656 ULAN: 500010070 LCCN: n82110153 NLA: 36535545 WorldCat