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Anne Marie Milan Desguillons
Anne Marie Milan Desguillons née ''Milan'' (8 May 1753–28 July 1829) was a French stage actress. She was active in the French Theater of Gustav III in Sweden in 1781-92, and principal of the Royal Dramatic Training Academy jointly with Joseph Sauze Desguillons 1793-98. Life Anne Marie Milan debuted in Le Havre 1773, and was active in Lille 1774–75. French theater of Gustav III In 1781, she arrived in Sweden as a member of the newly created French theater troupe of Jacques Marie Boutet de Monvel, which was engaged by king Gustav III of Sweden to perform for the Swedish royal court. The French Theatre performed at the court theatres in Gripsholm Castle, Drottningholm Palace Theatre and Confidencen at Ulriksdal Palace for the Swedish royal court: from the season of 1783-84, they also performed for the public at Bollhuset in Stockholm in winters, though the audience normally consisted exclusively of the upper class society, who could speak French. Anne Marie Milan Des ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Theater Of Gustav III
The French Theater of Gustav III was a French language theater active in Sweden between 1781 and 1792. The French theater company performed both before the Swedish royal court in the theaters of the royal palaces, as well as before the Swedish public in Stockholm. It is known to have played a significant part in the education of the pioneer generation of actors at the Royal Dramatic Theatre. The French theater was composed in Paris by Jacques Marie Boutet de Monvel in 1781, when it was engaged by king Gustav III of Sweden to perform before the Swedish royal court. Initially, they performed exclusively for the royal court in the theaters of the royal residences, such as Drottningholm Palace Theatre and Confidencen. From 1783 onward, they also performed before the Swedish public at Bollhuset. The public performances were, in practice, normally visited exclusively by the upper classes of Stockholm, who were able to understand the French language. The French Theater appeared before ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Athalie
''Athalie'' (, sometimes translated ''Athalia'') is a 1691 play, the final tragedy of Jean Racine, and has been described as the masterpiece of "one of the greatest literary artists known" and the "ripest work" of Racine's genius. Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve deemed it comparable to ''Oedipus Rex'' in beauty, with "the true God added." August Wilhelm Schlegel thought Athalie to be "animated by divine breath"; other critics have regarded the poetics of drama in the play to be superior to those of Aristotle. History After the success of ''Esther'', Racine published ''Athalie'' in 1691, another play drawn from the Bible, which he expected would have the same success. Plot Athalie, widow of the king of Judah, rules the country and believes she has eliminated all the rest of the royal family. She has abandoned the Jewish religion for the worship of Baal. However, the late king's grandson Joash was rescued by the wife of the high priest. *Act 1 - Joad, the Jewish high priest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1753 Births
Events January–March * January 3 – King Binnya Dala of the Hanthawaddy Kingdom orders the burning of Ava, the former capital of the Kingdom of Burma. * January 29 – After a month's absence, Elizabeth Canning returns to her mother's home in London and claims that she was abducted; the following criminal trial causes an uproar. * February 17 – The concept of electrical telegraphy is first published in the form of a letter to ''Scots' Magazine'' from a writer who identifies himself only as "C.M.". Titled "An Expeditious Method of Conveying Intelligence", C.M. suggests that static electricity (generated by 1753 from "frictional machines") could send electric signals across wires to a receiver. Rather than the dot and dash system later used by Samuel F.B. Morse, C.M. proposes that "a set of wires equal in number to the letters of the alphabet, be extended horizontally between two given places" and that on the receiving side, "Let a ball be suspen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marie Baptiste
Marie Baptiste née ''Dumont'' or ''Du Mont'' (8 February 1733 Bordeaux, France - died ''after'' 1786) was a French stage actress and singer. She is most known for her career in Sweden, where she was a leading member of the Du Londel Troupe, French Theatre in the mid 18th-century. Life Marie Baptiste was born as Marie Dumont or Marie Du Mont in Bordeaux in France. She was active as an actress with the stage name ''Mademoiselle le Prévost'' or ''Mademoiselle le Prevot''. In February 1754 in The Hague, she married her colleague, the actor Jacques Anselme Baptiste (1732-?) and became known as ''Madame Baptiste''. She became the mother of two daughters and two sons, notably her daughter Marie Louise Marcadet, Maria Louise Baptiste. French theater in Sweden In 1756, Marie Baptiste and her spouse where engaged by theater director Louis Du Londel to the Du Londel Troupe, French theater in Sweden. Louis Du Londel recruited eight new members to the Theater in his journey to Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marie Louise Marcadet
Marie Louise Marcadet née ''Baptiste'' (3 December 1758 – 28 February 1804) was a Swedish opera singer and a dramatic stage actress of French origin. She was active in the Royal Swedish Opera as a singer, and in the Royal Dramatic Theatre and the French Theater of Gustav III as an actress. She was a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music from 1795. Life Marie Louise Marcadet was born in Sweden as the daughter of the French actors Marie Baptiste and Jacques Anselme Baptiste. Her parents where both engaged at the French theater in Stockholm, and she was trained as a stage artists by them. The Baptiste family left Sweden in 1771, when the French theater was dissolved by Gustav III of Sweden upon his succession to the throne. She returned to Sweden with her parents in 1776, and performed with some of the French actors of the old theater, which entertained the Swedish royal court in a smaller scale, until a new French theater was established in 1781. In 1780, she mar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gustav IV Adolf Of Sweden
Gustav IV Adolf or Gustav IV Adolph (1 November 1778 – 7 February 1837) was King of Sweden from 1792 until he was deposed in a coup in 1809. He was also the last Swedish monarch to be the ruler of Finland. The occupation of Finland in 1808–09 by Russian forces was the immediate cause of Gustav's violent overthrow by officers of his own army. Following his abdication on 29 March 1809, an Instrument of Government was hastily written, which severely circumscribed the powers of the monarchy. The "Instrument" was adopted in 1809 on 6 June, the National Day of Sweden now as well as in his time. It remained in force until replaced in 1974. The crown, now with strictly limited powers, passed to Gustav's uncle Charles XIII, who had no legitimate children; this want of heirs set into motion the quest for a successor, who was found the following year in the person of Jean-Baptiste Jules Bernadotte, the first monarch of the present royal family. ch 37 pp 203-19 Early life Gustav Ado ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carolina Kuhlman
Ottilia Carolina Kuhlman (15 November 1778 – 12 April 1866) was a Swedish stage actress. She was an elite member of the Royal Dramatic Theatre, where she was considered the leading lady in the early 19th-century.Nordensvan, Georg, Svensk teater och svenska skådespelare från Gustav III till våra dagar. Förra delen, 1772-1842, Bonnier, Stockholm, 1917 Swedish theatre and Swedish actors from Gustav III to our days. First Book 1772–1842' She was an instructor and deputy principal of the Royal Dramatic Training Academy. She was also known as Carolina Deland and Carolina Åbergsson. Life Carolina Kuhlman was the daughter of Julius K. Kuhlman, Oboe player at the ''Hovkapellet'', and Andrika Hallar.Louis Joseph Marie Deland, urn:sbl:17408, Svenskt biografiskt lexikon (art av O. WlESELGREN.), hämtad 2018-06-17. In 1791, she was enrolled at the Royal Dramatic Training Academy, and became the student of Anne Marie Milan Desguillons in 1793. As such, she participated a stu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ulrika Wennerholm
Ulrica, also spelled Ulrika, is a female given name of Germanic origins. Its male equivalent is Ulric, Ulrich or Ulrik. Ulrike and Ulrikke are alternative names derived from Ulrica. Ulrica may refer to: People * Ulrika Eleonora, Queen of Sweden (1688–1741) * Ulrica Elisabeth von Liewen (1747–1775), rumored parent (along with King Adolf Frederick of Sweden) of Lolotte Forssberg * Ulrika Åberg (1771–1852), Swedish ballerina * Ulrica Arfvidsson (1734–1801), Swedish fortune teller * Ulrika Björn (born 1973), Swedish footballer * Ulrika Ericsson, ''Playboy'' Playmate of the Month for November 1996 * Ulrika von Fersen (1749–1810), Swedish socialite, a known figure of the Gustavian age, the inspiration of a poem * Ulrika Jonsson (born 1967), Swedish personality on British television * Ulrika Knape (born 1955), Swedish diver * Ulrika Melin (1767–1834), Swedish artist * Ulrika Pasch (1735–1796), Swedish painter * Ulrika Eleonora Stålhammar (1688–1733), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sofia Frodelius
Sofia ( ; bg, София, Sofiya, ) is the capital and largest city of Bulgaria. It is situated in the Sofia Valley at the foot of the Vitosha mountain in the western parts of the country. The city is built west of the Iskar river, and has many mineral springs, such as the Sofia Central Mineral Baths. It has a humid continental climate. Being in the centre of the Balkans, it is midway between the Black Sea and the Adriatic Sea, and closest to the Aegean Sea. Known as Serdica in Antiquity and Sredets in the Middle Ages, Sofia has been an area of human habitation since at least 7000 BC. The recorded history of the city begins with the attestation of the conquest of Serdica by the Roman Republic in 29 BC from the Celtic tribe Serdi. During the decline of the Roman Empire, the city was raided by Huns, Visigoths, Avars and Slavs. In 809, Serdica was incorporated into the Bulgarian Empire by Khan Krum and became known as Sredets. In 1018, the Byzantines ended B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeanette Wässelius
Marie Jeanette Wässelius (23 August 1784 – 5 December 1853) was a Swedish opera singer. She is referred to as the leading prima donna of the Royal Swedish Opera in the early 19th-century. She was a '' Hovsångare'' (1815) as well as an associé of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music (1817). She is also known as ''Mamsell Wässelia'' or only ''Wässelia''. Life Jeanette Wässelius was born in Stockholm. She was the daughter of a tapestry manufacturer, and the sister of Justina Casagli. The home was reportedly a poor one. She was enrolled as a student of the Royal Dramatic Training Academy in 1793, where she became the student of Anne Marie Milan Desguillons. As such, she was active as a child actor in the student plays arranged by the school, as well as in minor children's roles of the Opera productions. Career Jeanette Wässelius was contracted as a singer at the Royal Swedish Opera on 1 April 1800. In 1806, the Royal Swedish Opera was (temporarily) closed by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julie Alix De La Fay
Léonne-Julie Alix de la Fay, also known as Julianne Bournonville and Madame Alix (14 December 1748 – 14 March 1826), was a French ballet dancer and dance instructor. She played an important part in the development of the Royal Swedish Ballet. She was the sister of the famous ballet dancer Antoine Bournonville and the aunt of August Bournonville. Life and career She was born Léonne-Julie Bournonville in Brussels, Austrian Netherlands, in 12 December 1748, as the child of the French actors Louis-Amable Bournonville and Jeanne Evrard, members of the theatre troupe of Charles-Simon Favart. She accompanied her parents to Lyon in the troupe of Noverre in 1759-60 and debuted in ''La Ciaconne'' by Jean Dupré in Vienne in 1765. She performed at the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg under Gasparo Angiolini, and in Cassel in 1772-81. She arrived in Sweden in 1782, where she joined the Royal Swedish Ballet at the Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm. In 1783, she wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
