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Sarah Bernhardt (French: [saʁa bɛʁnɑʁt]; [note 1] born Henriette-Rosine Bernard; 22 October 1844 – 26 March 1923) was a French stage actress who starred in some of the most popular French plays of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including La Dame aux Camélias by Alexandre Dumas fils, Ruy Blas by Victor Hugo, Fédora and La Tosca by Victorien Sardou, and L'Aiglon by Edmond Rostand.
Performed in honour of the archbishop of Paris on his visit to the convent where Sarah was a pupil. 1861. Les Enfants d'Edouard. Casimir Delavigne. Edouard V. Théâtre de la Tour d'Auvergne, Paris. male role. 1861. Les Premières Armes de Richelieu.
Aug. 9—Long before the "Barbie" movie had audiences discussing the struggles of being a woman, Sarah Bernhardt was bringing that topic to center stage in 1899. "Bernhardt/Hamlet," which opens ...
Alphonse Mucha. Alfons Maria Mucha[ 1 ][ 2 ] (Czech: [ˈalfons ˈmuxa] ⓘ; 24 July 1860 – 14 July 1939), [ 3 ] known internationally as Alphonse Mucha, was a Czech painter, illustrator, and graphic artist. Living in Paris during the Art Nouveau period, he was widely known for his distinctly stylized and decorative theatrical posters ...
The pioneering French stage star Sarah Bernhardt was one of the world’s most famous women by the time of her death in 1923 — a status she owed not just to acting talent but her modern instinct ...
A bust Sarah Bernhardt sculpted of Abbéma was also exhibited at the exposition. Abbéma specialized in oil portraits and watercolors, and many of her works showed the influence from Chinese and Japanese painters, as well as contemporary masters such as Édouard Manet. She frequently depicted flowers in her works.
The theatre kept the name Sarah Bernhardt until the Occupation of France by the Germans in World War II, [7] when the name was changed to Théâtre de la Cité because of Bernhardt's Jewish ancestry, until 1947, when it reverted to Sarah-Bernhardt. [8] [better source needed]
La Tosca is a five- act drama by the 19th-century French playwright Victorien Sardou. It was first performed on 24 November 1887 at the Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin in Paris, with Sarah Bernhardt in the title role. Despite negative reviews from the Paris critics at the opening night, it became one of Sardou's most successful plays and was ...