Gavaudan aînée, Anne-Marie Jeanne
(1764–1810)> VOCALIST
Gavaudan aînée, Anne-Marie Jeanne (1764, Nîmes?; 15 June 1810, Paris), vocalist, was the elder of Jean-Baptiste Gavaudan’s two sisters who came to Paris from Nîmes to sing on the stage of the Royal Academy of Music. Anne-Marie made her debut at the Opéra in La Double Epreuve ou Colinette à la cour on 1 January 1782, and she appeared subsequently at the same theatre with her sister in La Caravane du Caire of 1784; she was cast this same year in Tibulle et Délie on 15 March (see Les Festes…