Forty-eight thousand pounds.
The equivalent of nearly 750,000 euros today.
Such is the sum that the French public would have managed to collect, according to the
Memoirs
of the Duke of Luynes, to convince Pierre de Jéliote not to leave the stage despite his wish to retire at the height of his career, at the beginning of the 1750s. Proof that crowdfunding in the field of classical music is not an invention of the 21st century.
Proof, above all, of the fascination that the French opera singer exerted on his audience, during the two decades which preceded this collection worthy of the Heritage Mission.
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Marina Abramovic corseted by the Callas
Mythical creator of the role of
Platée
at Versailles in 1745 (as well as around fifty opera roles).
Haute-contre favorite of Jean-Philippe Rameau.
Singer with a shrill voice, full and brilliant at the same time.
Icon of "French song" (which will make historiographer Claude Carloman de Rulhière say that he is
"perhaps the only one, today, on our theater, who has
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