Gavaudan cadette, Adelaïde

Gavaudan cadette, Adelaïde (1767, Nîmes?; 1805, Hamburg), vocalist, was the younger of Jean-Baptiste Gavaudan’s two sisters who came to Paris at the end of the eighteenth century to seek a career with the Royal Academy of Music. She made her debut at the Opéra with her sister in La Caravane du Caire on 15 January 1784. The young artiste’s affiliation with the Opéra lasted only six years, from 1784 to 1790, but she managed to earn an admirable reputation as a performer during this interval…