Micheline Legendre | |
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 Legendre in 1977 | |
| Born | 18 February 1923 |
| Died | 5 January 2010 (aged 86) Outremont, Quebec |
| Citizenship | Canada |
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| Years active | 1945–2010 |
| Organization | Les marionettes de Montréal |
Micheline Legendre (18 February 1923 – 5 January 2010) was a Canadian puppeteer.[1][2] She performed on television and on stage with her troupe, Les marionnettes de Montréal.[3] Her oeuvre spanned 1,170 puppets created and more than 16,000 performances for 2.5 million audience members. Legendre was a violinist by training and her marionnette troupe played with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra and the New York Philharmonic, for Radio-Canada and the National Film Board of Canada, among others. She was also an art historian at the Université de Montréal.
- ^ Raymond, Claudine; Bizier, Hélène-Andrée (2018). "La carrière exceptionnelle de l'Outremontaise Micheline Legendre" (PDF). Mémoire vivante (in French). 43. Société d'histoire d'Outremont: 6–9. Archived (PDF) from the original on 16 January 2021. Retrieved 16 January 2021.
- ^ Vaïs, Michel, ed. (2008). Dictionnaire des artistes du théâtre québécois (in French). Québec Amérique. pp. 239–240. ISBN 978-2-7644-0621-2. OCLC 191759798.
- ^ Doyon, Frédérique (12 January 2010). "Décès d'une pionnière". Le Devoir (in French). Archived from the original on 21 January 2021. Retrieved 16 January 2021.