Michelle Poncet
Michelle Poncet , also known as Destouches-Lobreau, was a French actress , director , programmer and theater troupe leader.
Life
[change | change source]Michelle Poncet began as an actress like her parents, under the stage name “Destouches-Lobreau”, then became a troupe leader.[1]
The Poncet sisters, all became theater directors, starting in Paris , and then in Bordeaux , Marseille , Toulouse and Grenoble. They ran traveling troupes , following the trade fairs Michelle Poncet arrived in Lyon . When the Opéra-comique was banned from 1745 to 1752, Angélique Destouches became director of the Bordeaux Opera from 1748 to 1752, Michelle at the Lyon Opera from 1752 to 1780 and Marie from 1782 to 1785. [2]
She succeeded Madeleine Eucher in office since 1722 and was followed by her sister Marie Poncet-Dunan from 1782.
She developed the repertoire from the tragedies of Jean-Baptiste Lully and ballets of Jean-Philippe Rameau to the emergence of the comic opera.[3]
References
[change | change source]- ↑ Clay, Lauren R. (2013-02-15). Stagestruck: The Business of Theater in Eighteenth-Century France and Its Colonies. Cornell University Press. ISBN 978-0-8014-6820-9.
- ↑ "The Festival international d'art lyrique d'Aix-enProvence: the idea of a lyrical Mediterranean in the 21st century" (PDF). 5th Transnational Opera Studies Conference. 6–8 July 2023. p. 174.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: date format (link) - ↑ Le Berre, Anne (2023). Michelle Poncet, ou, La "Destouches-Lobreau": directrice de l'opéra de Lyon au XVIIIe siècle. Collection Symétrie recherche. Série Histoire du concert. Lyon, France: Symétrie. ISBN 978-2-36485-219-8.