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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.
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 .
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]
Franz Ignaz Beck (20 February 1734 – 31 December 1809) was a German violinist, composer, conductor and music teacher who spent the greater part of his life in France, where he became director of the Grand Théâtre de Bordeaux. [1]
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.
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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His father, Louis Dejean, was a violin teacher and a violinist at the Grand Théâtre de Bordeaux; his mother, Rose Fino, of Basque origin, was a renowned piano teacher.. After a first prize in violin and a first prize in viola at the Conservatoire de Bordeaux in 1936, Dejean entered Jules Boucherit's class at the Conservatoire de Paris, where he obtained the first prize in violin, unanimously ...