Louise-Rosalie Lefebvre (18 June 1755 â€" 22 September 1821), also
known as Madame Dugazon, was a French operatic mezzo-soprano, actress
and dancer.Born in Berlin as the daughter of a dancing master at the
court of Frederick II of Prussia, she returned to Paris with her
parents in 1765. She made her stage debut at the age of twelve as a
dancer, but it was as an actress "with songs" that she made her debut
at the Comédie Italienne in 1774 in Grétry's Sylvain. She was at
once admitted pensionnaire and in 1775 sociétaire.She became a star
of the Comédie Italienne (which became the Opéra-Comique), where she
created over 60 roles. She was married to the actor Jean-Henri
Gourgaud, who went by the stage name Dugazon. Together they had a
child, Gustave Dugazon. The couple soon divorced, but continued to
perform at the Comédie Italienne for more than twenty years.The two
kinds of parts with which she was especially identifiedâ€"young
mothers and women past their first youthâ€"are still called "jeunes
dugazons" and "mères dugazons" in French opera. Examples of the first
are Jenny in La dame blanche and Berthe de Simiane in Les
mousquetaires de la reine; of the second, Marguerite in Le Pré aux
clercs and the queen in La part du diable. The type of voice for these
roles is a light mezzo-soprano or a dark-colored soprano leggero, and
they are generally less demanding technically. Louise-Rosalie Lefebvre Biography, NetWorth, Height, Age, Weight, Family, Married, Son, Daughter