Laguerre, Marie-Joséphine
(1755–1783)> VOCALIST
Laguerre, Marie-Joséphine (1755, Paris; 9 February 1783, Paris), vocalist, was invited to join the Royal Academy of Music as a chorister in 1774 and made her debut as L’Amour in Le Feu, one of the acts of Roy’s Les Eléments revived in 1773 (see seventeenth-century volume for Roy). Mlle Laguerre never attained to stardom at the Opéra because her rival Levasseur kept her in the shadows. Also, Mlle Laguerre was involved in scandals from time to time that damaged her career as well as her…