actors") between supporters of serious French opera by the likes of Jean-Baptiste Lully and Jean-Philippe Rameau and supporters of new Italian comic opera. Pergolesi...

Schönberg, Alain Boublil and Jean-Marc Natel, dir by Gérard Demierre – Tour, Lausanne 2009 : Coups de foudre, dir by Jean-Baptiste Arnal – Vingtième Théâtre...

possibly fanned by the admiration he had for the work of his great-uncle Jean-Baptiste Pigalle. When making his debut at the Paris Salon in 1857 he did so...