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Visages De Marbre Et D'airain Gérard Fontaine Visages de marbre et d'airain La collection de bustes du Palais Garnier Photographies de \ Jean-Pierre Delagarde X, - Avec le soutien de l'Association, .'' ' pour le rayonnement de l'Qpéra • > 1 1 national de Paris .?, s, *-'* "if 3 / INTRODUCTION 7 / ARCHITECTES • L'architecte du premier théâtre construit pour l'Opéra de Paris : Pierre Louis Moreau-Desproux • L'architecte d'un théâtre provisoire qui dura quatre-vingt-dix ans : Nicolas Lenoir • Le père en architecture de Charles Garnier : Victor Louis • Le génie des lieux : Charles Garnier 12 / DÉCORATEURS • L'inventeur de la scénographie à l'italienne : Giacomo Torelli • Le « machiniste » du Roi-Soleil : Carlo Vigarani • Un grand décorateur et costumier qui ne fut sans doute pas un grand peintre :Jean Berain • Un grand architecte qui fut aussi un grand décorateur : Giovanni Niccolô Servandoni • Un grand peintre qui ne fut peut-être pas un grand décorateur : François Boucher • L'un des grands décorateurs de l'histoire de l'opéra : Pierre Luc Charles Ciceri • Un décorateur « roman- tique » qui est aussi l'un des inventeurs de la photographie : Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre • Le bal de Gustave : Charles Antoine" Cambon • Un élève et un rival de Ciceri, qui joua un rôle impor- tant dans la décoration du Palais Garnier : Philippe Chaperon • Le décorateur des fêtes impériales : Jules Pierre Michel Diéteiie 21 / DIRECTEURS DE t'OPÉRA DE PARIS • Le père fondateur de l'Opéra, qui ne fut ni un abbé ni un saint : Pierre Perrin • Un homme de théâtre à l'Opéra : Louis Benoît Picard • Un chef d'orchestre saturé de musique : François Antoine Habeneck • « L'Alexandre le Grand de la mise en scène » : Edmond Henri Duponchel • Librettiste français de Donizetti, il dirige l'Opéra : Alphonse Rover • II fut successivement directeur de l'Opéra-Comique, du Théâtre-Lyrique, de l'Opéra et du Théâtre-Français : Emile Perrin • L'un des plus grands directeurs que l'Opéra de Paris ait jamais connus : Rolf Lîebermann 30 / COMPOSITEURS • L'un des compositeurs préférés du Roi-Soleil : André Cardinal Destouches • Le père fondateur du Conservatoire de Paris : François Joseph Gossec • Celui qui n'assassina pas Mozart : Antonio Salieri • Le dédicataire d'une célèbre sonate : Rodolphe Kreutzer • Un oubli majeur : Hector Berlioz • Un autre « oubli » majeur ? Un compositeur que n'aimait sans doute pas Charles Garnier : Richard Wagner • Encore un oubli majeur : l'auteur d'un des trois opéras les plus joués au monde : Charles Gounod • Monument à la mémoire de Camille Saint-Saëns 40 / LES LIBRETTISTES, « DES FRÈRES JALOUX » • Que diable fait-il là? Jean de La Fontaine • Le frère de Pierre :Thomas Corneille • Le librettiste de Campra ; Antoine Danchet • « Le Savetier de Quinault » :Jean François Marmontel • « Beaumarchais sera pendu, mais la corde cassera » : Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais • « L'Ermite de la Chaussée d'Antin » : Etienne de Jouy • Librettiste à succès, il dirigea l'Opéra-Comique : Jules Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges • Le seul buste rescapé de l'incendie de la salle Le Peletier figurant encore dans la collection : Théophile Gautier • Hors catégorie : un commissaire à l'Opéra : Louis François Beffara 48 / CHANTEURS ET CHANTEUSES • Une Pénélope : Marie Fel • Un ténor en Apollon : Pierre Jelyotte • « Le plus bel asthme » : Sophie Arnould • La rivale de Sophie Arnould : Rosalie Levasseur • La rivale de Rosalie Levasseur : Mme Saint-Huberty • Un chanteur qui n'était pas un Apollon : François Lays • La rivale de Mme Saint-Huberty : Mlle Maillard • La cantatrice préférée de Napoléon I" : Mme Branchu • Le baryton-basse de l'époque romantique : Nicolas Levasseur • Le créateur de Don Juan à l'Opéra : Adolphe Nourrit • Portrait d'un jettatore : Eugène Massol • Le premier « vrai » Don Juan de Mozart à l'Opéra de Paris : Paul Barroilhet* Celui qui pouvait montrer ses talons : Gilbert Duprez • Un grand seigneur, à la scène comme à la ville :Joseph Mario • L'Éléphant et le Rossignol : Marietta Alboni 61 / LE MONDE DE LA DANSE • Le régénérateur de la danse française : Jean Georges Noverre • Dictateur du ballet en France pen- dant quarante-deux ans : Pierre Garde! • Le Violon du diable : Arthur Saint-Léon • La Rosé des Indes galantes : Marie Salle • La nouvelle Vénus : Marie Anne de Cupis de Camargo • Une autre grande scandaleuse : Marie-Madeleine Guimard • La première Sylphide : Marie Taglioni • Une Sylphide foudroyée : Emma Livry • La première Giselle ; Carlotta Grisi 71 / INVENTAIRE DES BUSTES DU PALAIS GARNIER.
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