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BNF, catalogue:
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"Sourdéac, Alexandre de Rieux (1620-1695 ; marquis de) forme savante à valeur internationale. Décorateur et machiniste. - Travaille pour le Théâtre du Marais, associé à l'Académie des Opéras de Pierre Perrin en 1671-1672, attaché aux Comédiens Français de 1673 à 1681."
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Grove Music Online
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Christina BASHFORD : 'Sourdéac, Marquis de', Grove Music Online, ed. L. Macy (Accessed 23 March 2004), http://www.grovemusic.com :
"Sourdéac, Marquis de [Rieux, Alexandre de]
(b c1620; d Le Neubourg, Normandy, 7 May 1695). French machinist and opera manager. He provided the machines for Pierre Corneille’s tragedy La toison d’or, which was first performed in 1660 in a specially constructed theatre in Sourdéac’s castle in Normandy and later (1661) given in Paris. In December 1669 he and the rich financier Sieur de Champeron became business managers of Perrin’s Académies d’Opéra; Sourdéac also acted as machinist and designed the adventurous effects for Cambert’s Pomone (1671). Apparently seduced by the opera’s financial success and their own desire for power, Sourdéac and Champeron swindled the company out of its substantial profits, and effectively contributed to Perrin’s downfall. Sourdéac subsequently designed the machines for Cambert’s Les peines et les plaisirs (1672) and was planning the spectacle for a third opera when the Académies were forced to close. From 1673 to 1681 he worked for the Comédiens-Français."
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