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The Grand Théâtre de Bordeaux (French pronunciation: [ɡʁɑ̃ teɑtʁ də bɔʁdo]) is an opera house in Bordeaux, France, first inaugurated on 17 April 1780.It was in this theatre that the ballet La fille mal gardée premiered in 1789, and where a young Marius Petipa staged some of his first ballets.
Louis' masterpiece is the Grand Théâtre de Bordeaux of 1780. [6] He also designed other theatres, including the Salle Richelieu on the rue de Richelieu (1790, later to become the home of the Comédie-Française) and the Théâtre National de la rue de la Loi (1793, demolished). [7]
Statues on facade of the Grand-Théâtre of Bordeaux. Pierre-François Berruer (1733 – 4 April 1797) was a French sculptor. He is known for the twelve statues that decorate the front of the Grand Théâtre de Bordeaux .
1712 - Bordeaux Academy established. [8] 1740 - Bordeaux municipal library opens. 1775 - Place de la Bourse built. 1778 - Palais Rohan completed. [9] 1780 - Grand Théâtre de Bordeaux inaugurated. 1790 - Bordeaux becomes part of the Gironde souveraineté. [10] 1793 - Population: 104,676. 1796 - Archives départementales de la Gironde ...
In 1783, Dauberval moved to Bordeaux, where he accepted the post of maître de ballet to the Grand Théâtre de Bordeaux, a position he held until 1791. In 1789, Dauberval created his most enduring ballet, La Fille mal gardée , in which his wife, the dancer Marie-Madeleine Crespé, who is known to history as Madame Théodore, created the role ...
The Piliers de Tutelle in a 1640 panorama of Bordeaux. Drawing by Herman van der Hem.. The Piliers de Tutelle (meaning Pillars of Guardianship in French) was an important Gallo-Roman monument erected in the third century on the approximate location of the southwest corner of the Grand Théâtre of Bordeaux, a city in southwestern France.
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Edmond Dédé (November 20, 1827 – January 5, 1901) [a] was an American musician and composer. A free-born Creole, he moved to Europe in 1855.He worked in Bordeaux for more than forty years, first as assistant conductor at the Grand Théâtre and then as a conductor of orchestras at other local theaters.