Lacauchie Collection (page 7)

Gueymard in La Nonne Sanglante (The Bloody Nun) at the Opera Imperial.. Louis Gueymard (1822-1880) was a French operatic tenor, who performed at the Paris Opera for 20 years from 1848

Mlle Boulard in La Fiancee du Diable at the Opera Comique
Mlle. Boulard in La Fiancee du Diable at the Opera Comique.. Miss Boulard was called very ordinary and mediocre by the critics

Mlle Celine Montaland in La Rose de Boheme
Mlle. Celine Montaland in La Rose de Boheme at the Palais Royal.. A child prodigy, she poses in two different costumes as a Spanish dancer with tambourine

La Senora Perea Nena at the Gymnase Dramatique.. Perea Nena was a celebrated Spanish flamenco dancer who later performed in England in ballets such as El Gambusino and Los Cautivos

A hussar in L Etoile du Nord at the Opera Comique.. A woman dressed in a blue and scarlet hussars uniform. Handcoloured lithograph by Alexandre Lacauchie from Galerie Dramatique

Mlle Caroline Duprez as Catherine in L Etoile
Mlle. Caroline Duprez as Catherine in L Etoile du Nord at the Opera Comique.. She was the daughter of the famous French tenor Gilbert-Louis Duprez

Mlle Lefevre as Prascovia in L Etoile du Nord
Mlle. Lefevre as Prascovia in L Etoile du Nord at the Opera Comique.. Constance-Caroline Lefebvre (1828-1905) was a French actress and singer

Mlle Decroix as Ekimonna in L Etoile du Nord
Mlle. Decroix as Ekimonna in L Etoile du Nord at the Opera Comique.. Marguerite Jeanne Camille Decroix was a soprano opera singer who debuted in 1848

Soprano singer Marie-Charlotte Lemercier as Nathalie in L Etoile du Nord at the Opera Comique.. She had a sweet and flexible voice

Mocker as Danilowitz in Meyerbeers comic opera L Etoile du Nord (The North Star).. Toussaint-Eugene-Ernest Mocker was a French tenor

Bataille in the role of Peters (Peter the Great) in L Etoile du Nord.. Charles-Amable Battaille (1822-1872) was a bass opera singer and vocal teacher

Arnault as Menzaroff in Les Cosaques at the Theatre de la Gaite.. The Cossacks was a five act drama by Alphonse Arnault and Louis Judicis

Talon as Juliani in La Moissonneuse at the Theatre Lyrique.. Handcoloured lithograph by Alexandre Lacauchie from Galerie Dramatique: Costumes des Theatres de Paris 1853

Mme Mallet as Bertha in le Billet de Marguerite
Mme. Mallet as Bertha in le Billet de Marguerite, a comic opera in three acts, at the Lyrique.. Handcoloured lithograph by Alexandre Lacauchie from Galerie Dramatique

Mme Marguerite Ugalde as La Tonelli at the Opera Comique
Mme. Marguerite Ugalde as La Tonelli at the Opera Comique.. Mme Ugalde was a famous soprano opera singer and beauty and later moved to the Varietes

Mme Cheri Lesueur as Suzanne in George Sand s
Mme. Cheri Lesueur as Suzanne in George Sands Le Pressoir at the Gymnase Dramatique.. Born in 1826, Cheri Lesueur, nee Anna Cizos, Anna Cheri, was the sister to the actress Rose-Marie Cizos

Bernard Dupuis as Noel Plantier in George Sand s
Bernard Dupuis as Noel Plantier in George Sands Le Pressoir at the Theatre du Gymnase Dramatique.. Handcoloured lithograph by Alexandre Lacauchie from Galerie Dramatique

Lesueur as Valentin Pere in George Sands Le Pressoir at the Theatre du Gymnase Dramatique.. Handcoloured lithograph by Alexandre Lacauchie from Galerie Dramatique: Costumes des Theatres de Paris 1853

Mlle Scriwaneck in costume as Satan in Les
Mlle. Scriwaneck in costume as Satan in Les Enfers de Paris at Theatre des Varietes.. Augustine-Celestine Scriwaneck (1825-1910) had a sharp and wiry voice

Actress in costume as the Diable (devil) in Les Sept Merveilles du Monde at La Porte St. Martin.. The Seven Wonders of the World was a great fairy spectacle by Adolphe d Ennery with music

Adolphe Paert as Fortunio in Les Sept Merveilles du Monde at La Porte St. Martin.. The Seven Wonders of the World was a great fairy spectacle by Adolphe d Ennery with music and ballet by Gondois

French bass opera singer Roger as Richard in La Fronde at the Academie Imperiale de Musique.. Handcoloured lithograph by Alexandre Lacauchie from Galerie Dramatique

Obin as the Duc de Beaufort in Niedermeyer s
Obin as the Duc de Beaufort in Niedermeyers La Fronde at the Academie Imperiale de Musique.. French bass opera singer Louis-Henri Obin (1820-1895) later became a professor at the Paris Conservatory

Mme Guichard as Morielle in Le Roi des Halles
Mme. Guichard as Morielle in Le Roi des Halles at the Theatre Lyrique.. Handcoloured lithograph by Alexandre Lacauchie from Galerie Dramatique: Costumes des Theatres de Paris 1853

Mlle Figeac as Julie in Philiberte at the Gymnase Dramatique
Mlle. Figeac as Julie in Philiberte at the Gymnase Dramatique.. Madame Figeac later married a rich industrialist and died in 1884

Mlle Rose Cheri (Rose-Marie Cizos) as Philiberte
Mlle. Rose Cheri (Rose-Marie Cizos) as Philiberte at the Gymnase Dramatique.. French actress Rose Cheri (1824-1861) was one of a famous family of stage performers

Charles Albert Fechter in the role of Boccace (Boccaccio) at the Theatre du Vaudeville.. Fechter (1824-1879) took nine roles in this staging of The Tales of Boccaccio

Mlle Marie Cico as Simonne in Les Contes de
Mlle. Marie Cico as Simonne in Les Contes de Boccace at the Theatre du Vaudeville.. Mlle. Cico (1843-1875) was a French actress and singer famed for her performances in Orphee aux Enfers

Madame Guyon as Elisa in La Case de l Oncle Tom at l Ambigu Comique.. This French play based on Uncle Toms Cabin was first staged in Paris in January 1853

Arthur Saint-Leon in the ballet Le Lutin de la Vallee at the Theatre Lyrique 1853.. St. Leon (1821-1870) was a French ballet dancer and choreographer most famous for his choreography to Coppelia

Marie Guy-Stephan in the role of Katty in Le Lutin de la Vallee at the Theatre Lyrique.. French ballerina Madame Guy Stephan (b)

Bussine in monks robes as Fra Borromee in Marco Spada at the Opera Comique.. Handcoloured lithograph by Alexandre Lacauchie from Galerie Dramatique: Costumes des Theatres de Paris 1852

Mlle Fanny Cerrito in Maziliers Orfa at the
Mlle. Fanny Cerrito in Maziliers Orfa at the Academie Imperiale de Musique.. Cerrito (1817-1909) was born in Naples and became one of the most famous ballerinas of the 19th century

Couderc in uniform as the Comte de Pepinelli
Mlle. Clarisse as Sataniel in Les Cinq Cents Diables at the Theatre de la Gaite.. Mademoiselle Clarisse was a famous French ballet dancer of the 19th century

Mlle Caroline Duprez as Angela in Marco Spada
Mlle. Caroline Duprez as Angela in Marco Spada at the Opera Comique.. Duprez (1832-1875) was a French soprano singer who debuted in La Somnambula in 1850

Charles Bataille as the Baron de Torrida in Marco Spada at the Opera Comique.. Batailles greatest triumph was as Pierre le Grand in l Etoile du Nord

Tenor singer Parre as the fisherman Zephoris in Si J etais Roi at the Theatre Lyrique.. Handcoloured lithograph by Alexandre Lacauchie from Galerie Dramatique: Costumes des Theatres de Paris 1852

Baritone singer Pierre-Marie Laurent as the king in Si J etais Roi at the Theatre Lyrique in 1852.. Handcoloured lithograph by Alexandre Lacauchie from Galerie Dramatique

Mme Rose Cheri in the role of La Lise in La
Mme. Rose Cheri in the role of La Lise in La Pariure de Jules Denis at the Gymnase Dramatique.. Handcoloured lithograph by Alexandre Lacauchie from Galerie Dramatique

Mlle Hermance Revilly as La Perinette in La
Mlle. Hermance Revilly as La Perinette in La Pariure de Jules Denis at the Gymnase Dramatique.. Revilly (b. 1823) made her debut at the Opera Comique in 1840, and was a pleasing and ladylike actress

Bignon in the role of Raoul de Foulques in Richard III.. Married to the celebrated Madame Albert, Bignon was a thoroughly reliable and conscientious actor

Paul Boisselot in the role of Jules in La Perruque de mon Oncle at the Folies Dramatiques.. Boisselot (1829-1905) was a French vaudeville actor and comedian

Mlle Jouve in the role of Brigite in La Mendiante
Mlle. Jouve in the role of Brigite in La Mendiante at the Theatre de la Gaite.. Handcoloured lithograph by Alexandre Lacauchie from Galerie Dramatique: Costumes des Theatres de Paris ca. 1860

Audran in the role of Arthur in Madelon a comic opera by Francois Bazin, 1852.. Handcoloured lithograph by Alexandre Lacauchie from Galerie Dramatique: Costumes des Theatres de Paris ca. 1860

Mme Colson as Michelma in La Moissonneuse at
Mlle. Lefebvre in the title role of Madelon, a comic opera by Francois Bazin, 1852.. Constance-Caroline Lefebvre-Faure (1828-1905) was a French mezzo soprano

Louis-Henri Obin in the role of Nicephore, emperor of the Orient, in le Juif Errant.. Obin (1820-1895) was a French lyric bass singer

Mlle Emy or Emma Lagrua in the role of Irene
Mlle. Emy or Emma Lagrua in the role of Irene in Halevys le Juif Errant at the Theatre de l Opera.. LaGrua (1831-1865) was part of the Dresden Court Opera before debuting in Paris as 1852

Gustave Roger in the role of Leon in le Juif Errant at the Theatre de l Opera.. Roger (1815-1879) was a French tenor. Handcoloured lithograph by Alexandre Lacauchie from Galerie Dramatique

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"Lacauchie: A Glimpse into the World of French Theatre and Opera" Step into the enchanting world of Lacauchie, where French actors and opera singers captivate audiences with their mesmerizing performances. Joseph Laurent shines as Mousqueton, bringing his character to life with impeccable skill and charm. Adolphe Laferriere embodies Charles Barbaroux in a way that leaves spectators in awe of his talent. Mlle Payre's portrayal of Beppe in the verse drama Karel Dujardin transports us to another era, while Milon's captivating performance as the Duke in La Comtesse d'Altemberg leaves us breathless. Ballet dancer Lucien Petipa gracefully takes on the role of Lyonel in Lady, showcasing his incredible agility and artistry. Toussaint Mocker astounds as the Chevalier with his powerful tenor voice that resonates through every corner of the theater. French actor Bocage's depiction of Philippe Auguste is nothing short of extraordinary - he effortlessly captures both strength and vulnerability. Mlle Adele Page enchants as the Duchess of Navailles, her presence commanding attention from all who watch. Paul Bocage brings Albuquerque to life with passion and intensity, leaving an indelible mark on our memories. Adrien Joly and Petit Veldeman shine brightly together in La Biche au Bois, their chemistry igniting sparks on stage. Gilbert Duprez's performance in Dom Sebastien showcases his exceptional range as a tenor, leaving audiences spellbound by his vocal prowess. Baritone opera singer Leonard Hermann-Leon graces us with his rich timbre that resonates deep within our souls. In Lacauchie's vibrant world filled with talented performers like these, we are transported to realms beyond imagination - a testament to France's rich theatrical heritage.