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Marie Thérèse Laruette

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1837

Marie-Thérèse Laruette (1744 –1837) was an 18th-century French opera singer. A member of the troupe of the Opéra-Comique, she was Jean-Louis Laruette's wife (1731–1792), also a singer and a composer.

Née Marie-Thérèse Vilette, she made her debut at the Paris Opéra in 1758 before she moved to the Comédie-Italienne in 1761. There she performed operas by Monsigny and Grétry, in particular Le Déserteur that she created in 1767.

Among others, she also sang in the following operas:

  • 1765: La fée Urgèle
  • 1765: Tom Jones
  • 1765: L'école de la jeunesse
  • 1767: Le Huron
  • 1769: Le tableau parlant
  • 1771: Zémire et Azor

    • Iconography

  • Jean-Baptiste Perronneau, Portrait de femme : Marie-Thérèse de Villette, femme Laruette (54x43 cm) in Cent pastels du XVIIIe (Henry Michel-Lévy's collection), (p. 404), col. C, repr. i

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