Personne : Dominique Normandin

Performance Rôle Troupe Date
Les Amours de Microton (1676) chef de troupe 1676
Les Pygmées (1676) chef de troupe Troupe royale des Pygmées (l’Opéra des Bamboches) 1676

  • Sujet Grove Music Online
    Objet Jérôme de la GORCE : 'Normandin, Dominique', Grove Music Online ed. L. Macy (Accessed 15 March 2004), http://www.grovemusic.com :
    "Normandin [La Grille], Dominique (b Paris, c1640; d Paris, c1717). French singer and theatrical impresario. A grandson of Le Bailly, Normandin sang in court performances from 1663 onwards. In 1675, as one of the king's musicians, he obtained a privilege from Louis XIV to give theatrical performances with large marionettes of his own invention. In 1676 he staged the tragicomédie of Les Pygmées in Paris, probably at the Théâtre du Marais, and then a tragédie enjouée entitled Les Amours de Microton ou les charmes d'Orcan, with ballets, theatrical machinery and stage sets. These works for marionettes, performed by singers hidden underneath the stage, were so successful and displayed so many similarities with Lully's tragédies en musique that Lully himself had them banned in 1677, even though he was related to La Grille (their wives were cousins). Normandin's ‘Théâtre des Pygmées’or ‘Opéra des Bamboches’anticipated the Opéra-Comique in staging parodies of operas.
    BIBLIOGRAPHY
    C. Magnin: Histoire des marionnettes en Europe depuis l'Antiquité jusqu'à nos jours (Paris, 1852)
    J. de La Gorce: ‘Un théâtre parisien en concurrence avec l'Académie royale de musique dirigée par Lully: l'Opéra des Bamboches’, Jean-Baptiste Lully: Saint Germain-en-Laye and Heidelberg 1987, 223–33."
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