Nicolas-Médard Audinot was a French choreographer, born in 1732 in Bourmont, who died in 1801.
Biography
Nicolas-Médard Audinot (also Odinot, Oudinot (7 June 1732, Paris – 21 May 1801) was a French actor, singer, impresario, and puppeteer.
He first played at the Comédie Italienne. In 1762, he set up a puppeteer theatre at foire Saint-Germain where each character was an imitation of an actor of the Comédie-Italienne. His wood comedians attracted the crowd, and soon Audinot founded the Théâtre de l'Ambigu-Comique where he substituted children to puppets.
In 1772, he presented grand pantomimes which made his fortune.
He authored Le Tonnelier, an opéra comique presented with success (music by Gossec, Philidor and Trial).
Contemporaries
Jean-Claude Trial
composer (1732-1771)
Jean-Benjamin de La Borde
French composer, patron, writer and fermier général (1734–1794)
Angiolo Vestris
France-Italian ballet dancer
Jean-Baptiste Pitrot
French ballet dancer and choreographer
Jean-Baptiste Hus
French dancer and ballet master
Jean-Georges Noverre
French dancer (1727-1810)
Antoine Pitrot
French ballet dancer and choreographer
Pierre Montan Berton
French composer and conductor
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