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'''Marie-Jeanne Larrivée''', born '''Marie-Jeanne Lemière''' ([[Sedan, Ardennes]], 1733 – [[Paris]], 1786) was a French [[soprano]].<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-5000902827 |title= Lemière [Larrivée, L'Arrivée], Marie-Jeanne}}</ref> She was a prominent member of the [[Paris Opera]] company, where she made her debut in 1750 under the name of Mlle Lemière (also spelt Lemierre or Le Mière).<ref>(in Catalan) Enciclopèdia Espasa Volum núm. 29, pàg. 887 ({{ISBN|84-239-4529-4}})</ref>
'''Marie-Jeanne Larrivée''', born '''Marie-Jeanne Lemière''' ([[Sedan, Ardennes]], 1733 – [[Paris]], 1786) was a French [[soprano]].<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-5000902827 |title= Lemière [Larrivée, L'Arrivée], Marie-Jeanne}}</ref> She was a prominent member of the [[Paris Opera]] company, where she made her debut in 1750 under the name of Mlle Lemière (also spelt Lemierre or Le Mière).<ref>(in Catalan) Enciclopèdia Espasa Volum núm. 29, pàg. 887 ({{ISBN|84-239-4529-4}})</ref>


She was the sister of violinist Jacques Lemière and cellist Jacques-Louis Lemière both engaged at the Paris Opera in the same period. Her parents were Louis-Michel Lemière, a wig maker, and Julienne Lemière<ref>Pougin, Arthur. Pierre Jélyotte et les chanteurs de son temps: Un ténor de l'Opéra au XVIIIe siècle. France, BnF collection ebooks, 2016.</ref>,<ref>Bouissou, Sylvie. Dictionnaire de l'Opéra de Paris sous l'Ancien Régime, 1669-1791: P-Z. Tome IV. France, Classiques Garnier, 2020.</ref>.
She was the sister of violinist Jacques Lemière and cellist Jacques-Louis Lemière both engaged at the Paris Opera in the same period. Her parents were Louis-Michel Lemière, a wig maker, and Julienne Lemière.<ref>Pougin, Arthur. Pierre Jélyotte et les chanteurs de son temps: Un ténor de l'Opéra au XVIIIe siècle. France, BnF collection ebooks, 2016.</ref><ref>Bouissou, Sylvie. Dictionnaire de l'Opéra de Paris sous l'Ancien Régime, 1669-1791: P-Z. Tome IV. France, Classiques Garnier, 2020.</ref>


After performing several light roles as a cover, at the beginning of 1752 Lemière left the theater scene. She probably intended to improve her voice, but her five-year absence from the stage was mainly related to her stormy relationship with the [[Duke of Gramont]], whose abusive behaviour, even bordering on rape, darkened this period of her life. In July 1752 she gave birth to her first daughter, Marie-Antoinette, but neither of the parents acknowledged her, and only her grandfather offered himself as godfather.<ref>According to Camille Piton she had one or two other children with the Duke (''Paris sous Louis XV : rapports des inspecteurs de police au roi publiés et annotés par Camille Piton'', Paris, Mercure de France, 1905/1914, t. 5, pp. 376–388).</ref> In 1756 she finally managed to break up with the Duke and the following year she was readmitted to the Opéra with increased salary.<ref>Bouissou, pp. 397–398.</ref>
After performing several light roles as a cover, at the beginning of 1752 Lemière left the theater scene. She probably intended to improve her voice, but her five-year absence from the stage was mainly related to her stormy relationship with the [[Duke of Gramont]], whose abusive behaviour, even bordering on rape, darkened this period of her life. In July 1752 she gave birth to her first daughter, Marie-Antoinette, but neither of the parents acknowledged her, and only her grandfather offered himself as godfather.<ref>According to Camille Piton she had one or two other children with the Duke (''Paris sous Louis XV : rapports des inspecteurs de police au roi publiés et annotés par Camille Piton'', Paris, Mercure de France, 1905/1914, t. 5, pp. 376–388).</ref> In 1756 she finally managed to break up with the Duke and the following year she was readmitted to the Opéra with increased salary.<ref>Bouissou, pp. 397–398.</ref>

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Marie-Jeanne Larrivée, born Marie-Jeanne Lemière (Sedan, Ardennes, 1733 – Paris, 1786) was a French soprano.[1] She was a prominent member of the Paris Opera company, where she made her debut in 1750 under the name of Mlle Lemière (also spelt Lemierre or Le Mière).[2]

She was the sister of violinist Jacques Lemière and cellist Jacques-Louis Lemière both engaged at the Paris Opera in the same period. Her parents were Louis-Michel Lemière, a wig maker, and Julienne Lemière.[3][4]

After performing several light roles as a cover, at the beginning of 1752 Lemière left the theater scene. She probably intended to improve her voice, but her five-year absence from the stage was mainly related to her stormy relationship with the Duke of Gramont, whose abusive behaviour, even bordering on rape, darkened this period of her life. In July 1752 she gave birth to her first daughter, Marie-Antoinette, but neither of the parents acknowledged her, and only her grandfather offered himself as godfather.[5] In 1756 she finally managed to break up with the Duke and the following year she was readmitted to the Opéra with increased salary.[6]

The parts played by Mlle Lemière included roles in the operas Silvie,[7] Omphale (Cardonne), Ovide et Julie (as Julie),[8] Salimes and Céphale et Procris (Grétry). Larrivée-Lemière retired from the theater in 1777. She had been married to her partner, Henri Larrivée, since 1762, and had two daughters: pianist, harpsichordist and composer Camille Larrivée and violinist Agathe Elisabeth Henriette Larrivée. In 1767, the Larrivées separated,[9] and her two daughters went on to live with their aunt and guardian, Elisabeth-Henriette Larrivée, and toured through French provinces in concerts.[10]

Marie-Jeanne Larrivée-Lemière was also one of the most esteemed singers of the Concert Spirituel, where she regularly performed between 1750 and 1763, and then more irregularly until 1778, when she retired with a pension of 2,000 francs annually.[11]

Roles debuted

Opera Composer Role(s) Date of premiere Location
Thésée (Mondonville)[12] Jean-Joseph de Mondonville The high priestess, Minerva; a woman from Athens; a shepherdess, from an enchanted island 7 November 1765 Fontainebleau
Les Paladins[13] Rameau Nérine 12 February 1760 Paris Opera
Canente (Dauvergne)[14] Antoine Dauvergne Canente 11 November 1760 Paris Opera
Énée et Lavinie (Dauvergne)[15] Antoine Dauvergne Venus; Iris[16] 14 February 1758 Paris Opera
Anacréon[17] Rameau Chloë 1766 Versailles
Acante et Céphise[18] Rameau Un'autre bergère 19 November 1751 Paris Opera
Les fêtes de Paphos[19] Jean-Joseph de Mondonville Aglaé (act 1); Amour (act 2) 9 May 1758 Paris Opera
Sabinus (opera)[20] François-Joseph Gossec Éponine 4 December 1773 Versailles; in presence of King Louis XV
Hippolyte et Aricie (revision of 1757)[21] Rameau Une matelote, une bergère, une chasseresse 1757 Versailles; in presence of King Louis XV
Ernelinde, princesse de Norvège[22] François-André Philidor Erneline 24 November 1767 Paris Opera
Théonis ou Le Toucher[23] Jean-Claude Trial and Pierre-Montan Berton Théonis 13 October 1767 Paris Opera
Titon et l'Aurore[24] Jean-Joseph de Mondonville L'Aurore 22 February 1763 Paris Opera
Silvie[25] Jean-Claude Trial and Pierre-Montan Berton L'Amour 17 October 1765 Paris Opera
Le Carnaval de Parnasse[26] Jean-Joseph de Mondonville Florine (prologue); Thalie 23 June 1767 Paris Opera
Ismène[27] François Rebel and François Francœur 12 October 1769 Fontainebleau

References

  1. ^ "Lemière [Larrivée, L'Arrivée], Marie-Jeanne".
  2. ^ (in Catalan) Enciclopèdia Espasa Volum núm. 29, pàg. 887 (ISBN 84-239-4529-4)
  3. ^ Pougin, Arthur. Pierre Jélyotte et les chanteurs de son temps: Un ténor de l'Opéra au XVIIIe siècle. France, BnF collection ebooks, 2016.
  4. ^ Bouissou, Sylvie. Dictionnaire de l'Opéra de Paris sous l'Ancien Régime, 1669-1791: P-Z. Tome IV. France, Classiques Garnier, 2020.
  5. ^ According to Camille Piton she had one or two other children with the Duke (Paris sous Louis XV : rapports des inspecteurs de police au roi publiés et annotés par Camille Piton, Paris, Mercure de France, 1905/1914, t. 5, pp. 376–388).
  6. ^ Bouissou, pp. 397–398.
  7. ^ "Sylvie [Spectacle] : opéra en 3 actes avec 1 prologue / livret de Pierre Laujon ; musique de Pierre-Montan Berton et Jean-Claude Trial ; ballets de MM. Laval et fils".
  8. ^ (in French) "Ovide et Julie".
  9. ^ (in French) "LEMIÈRE, Marie-Jeanne, voir LARRIVÉE (1733-1786)".
  10. ^ "The Mysterious Mme Delaval: Part I".
  11. ^ (in German) Großes Sängerlexikon, Volume 4, page 2617, Larrivée-Le Mière (Lemierre, Le Mière) Marie-Jeanne.(ISBN 35-981-1598-9)
  12. ^ Quinault, Philippe (1765). "(in French; 1765 libretto)Thésée; tragédie en 5 actes".
  13. ^ "Les Paladins [Spectacle] : opéra-ballet en 3 actes / livret de Jean-François Duplat de Monticourt ; musique de Jean-Philippe Rameau".
  14. ^ "(in French; libretto) Canente , tragédie".
  15. ^ "Enée et Lavinie [Spectacle] : tragédie lyrique en 5 actes / livret de Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle, terminé par François-Augustin Paradis de Moncrif ; musique de Pascale Colasse, reprise par Antoine Dauvergne, Bibliothèque Nationale de France (digitalized)".
  16. ^ "Énée et Lavinie(in French)".
  17. ^ "Les Fêtes Lyriques (Anacréon) [Spectacle] : ballet heroïque / livret de Louis de Cahusac ; musique de Jean-Philippe Rameau, Bibliothèque Nationale de France (digitalized)".
  18. ^ "(in French; libretto)Acanthe et Céphise, ou la Sympatie, Bibliothèque Nationale de France (digitalized)".
  19. ^ "(in French)Jean-Joseph Cassanéa de Mondonville".
  20. ^ (in French; libretto) Michel Paul Guy de Chabanon,Sabinus: Tragédie-lyrique en 5 act (ISBN 20-1930-282-9)
  21. ^ (in French) "Hippolyte et Aricie".
  22. ^ (in German) Großes Sängerlexikon, Volume 4, page 2617, Larrivée-Le Mière (Lemierre, Le Mière) Marie-Jeanne.(ISBN 35-981-1598-9)
  23. ^ "Performance: Théonis ou Le Toucher pastorale héroïque en un acte".
  24. ^ "Titon et l'Aurore [Spectacle] : pastorale héroïque en 3 actes et un prologue / livret de l'abbé de Lamarre ; musique de Jean-Joseph Cassanéa de Mondonville".
  25. ^ "Sylvie [Spectacle] : opéra en 3 actes avec 1 prologue / livret de Pierre Laujon ; musique de Pierre-Montan Berton et Jean-Claude Trial ; ballets de MM. Laval et fils".
  26. ^ "Le Carnaval du Parnasse [Spectacle] : ballet héroïque en 3 actes avec 1 prologue / livret de Louis Fuzelier ; musique de Jean-Joseph Cassanéa de Mondonville".
  27. ^ "Ismène [Spectacle] : pastorale héroïque en 1 acte / livret de François-Auguste Paradis de Moncrif ; musique de François Rebel et François Francœur, Bibliothèque Nationale de France (digitalized)".
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