Personne : Jean Dun

Performance Rôle Troupe Date
Les Ages (1718-10-09) chanteur Académie royale de musique (Paris) 1718-10-09
Hippolyte et Aricie (1733-10-01) chanteur 1733-10-01
Les Indes galantes (1735-08-23) chanteur Académie royale de musique (Paris) 1735-08-23
Castor et Pollux (1737-08-24) chanteur Académie royale de musique (Paris) 1737-08-24
Les Fêtes d’Hébé (1739-05-21) chanteur Académie royale de musique (Paris) 1739-05-21
Scylla (10-1720) chanteur 10-1720

  • Sujet Benoit
    Objet Dictionnnaire de musique (1992) p. 254 : famille Dun.
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  • Sujet Grove Music Online
    Objet James R. ANTHONY : 'Jean Dun (II)', Grove Music Online ed. L. Macy (Accessed 19 March 2004), http://www.grovemusic.com :
    "Jean Dun (II) [fils] (b Paris; d 1772). Son of (1) Jean Dun, and also a bass, he made his début at the Opéra singing in the trio of fates in a revival of Lully’s Isis in 1717. In 1718 he created Valère in Campra’s Les âges, singing opposite his father in the same entrée. Highly regarded, he sang in more than 20 operas, often appearing in more than one role in the same work. He created roles in four operas by Rameau: Jupiter and Pluto in Hippolyte et Aricie (1733), Osman-Bacha (Les Indes galantes, 1735), Jupiter in Castor et Pollux (1737), and Hymas and Eurilas (Les fêtes d’Hébé, 1739). A 1738 inventory of the Opéra described him thus: ‘good musician, sings well, but he has not got a clear voice’(see G. Sadler, EMc, xi, 1983, pp.453–67). He retired from the Opéra as a singer in 1741 and soon afterwards joined the orchestra there, playing the bass viol until 1759."
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  • Sujet Pitou
    Objet Pitou 1715-1815, p. 171-2 : "…He remained with the company as a vocalist until 1741, and he then entered the orchestra to play the bass viol until 1759…. created his first role, Valère of Les Ages, on 9 October 1718 with his father singing Fabio in the same work on this same day. [21 creations listed]… As a bass Dun was especially eligible for the roles of kings, soothsayers, gods, and other figures destined to interpret or to anticipate rather than to suffer the misfortunes of the human condition…."
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