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Marie-Thérèse Laruette

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Marie-Thérèse Laruette (1744 –1837) was an 18th-century French opera singer. A member of the troupe of the Opéra-Comique, she was Jean-Louis Laruette's wife (1731–1792), also a singer and a composer.

Née Marie-Thérèse Vilette, she made her debut at the Paris Opéra in 1758 before she moved to the Comédie-Italienne in 1761. There she performed operas by Monsigny and Grétry, in particular Le Déserteur that she created in 1767.

Among others, she also sang in the following operas:

Bibliography

  • Raphaelle Legrand, Personnes et personnages à l'Opéra-Comique de 1762 à 1786 : Marie-Thérèse Laruette et Marie-Jeanne Trial, actes du colloque « L'Opéra-comique à l'époque de Boieldieu », Rouen, March 2001

Iconography

  • Jean-Baptiste Perronneau, Portrait de femme : Marie-Thérèse de Villette, femme Laruette (54x43 cm) in Cent pastels du XVIIIe (Henry Michel-Lévy's collection), (p. 404), col. C, repr. i
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