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{{short description|French opera singer}}
[[File:Gabriel-Vincent Thévenard.jpg|thumb|Gabriel-Vincent Thévenard]]
'''Gabriel-Vincent Thévenard''' (10 August 1669 – 24 August 1741) was a French [[opera]]tic [[baritone]] (''basse taille'').
Thévenard was born at [[Orléans]] or possibly Paris.  Arriving in Paris in 1690, he studied under the [[composer]] [[André Cardinal Destouches]] and went on to become a member of  the [[Académie Royale de Musique]]. He was notable for playing tragic roles that made use of his skill at declamatory [[recitative]]s. He appeared in over 80 [[tragédie en musique|tragédies en musique]] and [[opéra ballet|opéras ballet]] before finally retiring in 1729.  He died in Paris.
==Roles created==
*Apollon/Vertumne/l'Automne in [[Pascal Colasse]] et [[Louis Lully]]'s ''Ballet des Saisons'' (Paris, 1695)
*Jupiter/Hylas in [[André Cardinal Destouches|Destouches]]'s ''[[Issé (opera)|Issé]]'' (Fontainebleau, 1697)
*Silvandre/Zuliman in [[André Campra]]'s [[L'Europe galante]] (Paris, 1697)
*The title role in Destouches's ''Amadis de Grèce'' (Paris, 1699)
*Argapise in Destouches's ''Marthesie, première reine des Amazones'' (Paris, 1699)
*Pygmalion in [[Michel de la Barre]]'s ''Le triomphe des arts'' (Paris, 1700)
*Picus in Colasse's ''Canente'' (Paris, 1700)
*Anchise in Campra's ''[[Hésione]]'' (Paris, 1700)
*Alphée in Campra's ''Aréthuse'' (Paris, 1701)
*Minos in [[Theobaldo di Gatti]]'s ''Scylla'' (Paris, 1701)
*Alcide in Destouches's ''Omphale'' (Paris, 1701)
*The title role in [[François Bouvard]]'s ''Médus, roi des Mèdes'' (Paris, 1702)
*The title role in Campra's ''[[Tancrède]]'' (Paris, 1702)
*The title role and a savage (prologue) in [[Jean-Féry Rebel]]'s ''Ulysse'' (Paris, 1703)
*Bacchus in Campra's ''Les muses'' (Paris, 1703)
*Carnaval in Destouches's ''Le Carnaval et la Folie'' (Paris, 1704)
*Oreste in [[Henri Desmarets|Desmarets]] and Campra's ''[[Iphigénie en Tauride (Desmarets and Campra)|Iphigénie en Tauride]]'' (Paris, 1704)
*Atlas in Campra's ''[[Alcine]]'' (Paris, 1705)
*Térée in [[Louis de La Coste]]'s ''Philomèle'' (Paris, 1705)
*Pelée in [[Marin Marais]]'s [[Alcyone (opera)|Alcione]] (Paris, 1706)
*Agamemnon in [[Toussaint Bertin de la Doué|Bertin de la Doué]] and Bouvard's ''Cassandre'' (Paris, 1706)
*Pyrrhus in Colasse's ''Polyxène et Pyrrhus'' (Paris, 1706)
*Roger in de La Coste's ''Bradamante'' (Paris, 1707)
*Pélops in Campra's ''Hippodamie'' (Paris, 1708)
*Jupiter in Marais's ''[[Sémélé]]'' (Paris, 1709)
*The title role in [[Jean-Baptiste Stuck|Batistin]]'s ''Méléagre'' (Paris, 1709)
*The title role in Bertin de la Doué's ''Diomède'' (Paris, 1710)
*Carnaval/Léandre in Campra's ''[[Les fêtes vénitiennes]]'' (Paris, 1710)
*Lycarcis in Batistin's ''Manto la fée'' (Paris, 1711)
*The title role in Campra's [[Idoménée]] (Paris, 1712)
*Phorbas in de La Coste's ''Créüse l'Athénienne'' (Paris, 1712)
*Mars/Silène in Campra's ''Les amours de Venus et Mars'' (Paris, 1712)
*Corisus in Destouches's ''[[Callirhoé]]'' (Paris, 1712)
*Créon in [[Joseph François Salomon]]'s ''Medée et Jason'' (Paris, 1713)
*Diomède/Ovide in [[Thomas-Louis Bourgeois]]'s ''Les amours déguisés'' (Paris, 1713)
*The title role in Campra's ''Télèphe'' (Paris, 1713)
*Eurylas in [[Jean-Baptiste Matho]]'s ''Arion'' (Paris, 1714)
*Apollon in [[Jean-Joseph Mouret]]'s ''Les festes de Thalie'' (Paris, 1714)
*Adraste in Destouches's ''Télémaque'' (Paris, 1714)
*Licas in Bourgeois's ''Les plaisirs de la paix'' (Paris, 1715)
*Thestor in Salomon's ''Théonoé'' (Paris, 1715)
*Danaüs in [[Charles-Hubert Gervais]]'s ''Hypermestre'' (Paris, 1716)
*Thésée in Mouret's ''Ariane'' (Paris, 1717)
*Almon in Campra's ''Camille, reine des Volsques'' (Paris, 1717)
*The title role in Bertin de la Doué's ''Le jujement de Pâris'' (Paris, 1718)
*Eraste in Campra's ''[[Les âges]]'' (Paris, 1718)
*Zoroastre in Destouches's ''Semiramis'' (Paris, 1718)
*Valère/Lisimon in Bertin de la Doué's ''Les plaisirs de la campagne'' (Paris, 1719)
*The title role in Batistin's ''Polydore'' (Paris, 1720)
*The title role in Gervais's ''Les amours de Protée'' (Paris, 1720)
*Ixion/Valère in  Destouches and [[Michel Richard Delalande|Delalande]]'s ''[[Les élémens]]'' (Paris, 1721)
*Adraste in Desmarets's ''Renaud ou La suite d'Armide'' (Paris, 1722)
*Eurite in Mouret's ''Pirithoüs'' (Paris, 1723)
*Apollon/Alcibiade/Marc-Antoine in [[François Colin de Blamont]]'s ''Les festes grecques et romaines'' (Paris, 1723)
*Nourredin in [[Jacques Aubert]]'s ''La reine des Péris'' (Paris, 1725)
*The title role in de La Coste's ''Télégone'' (Paris, 1725)
*Léandre/Émile in Destouches's ''Les stratagèmes de l'Amour'' (Paris, 1726)
*The male title role in [[François Francœur]] et [[François Rebel]]'s ''Pirame et Thisbé'' (Paris, 1726)
*Neptune/Bacchus in Mouret's ''Les amours des dieux'' (Paris, 1727)
*Saturne in ''Le ballet du Parnasse'', [[pastiche]] with music by various authors collated by Colin de Blamont (Versailles, 1729)
==Sources==
*Cyr, Mary (1992), 'Thévenard, Gabriel-Vincent' in ''The [[New Grove Dictionary of Opera]]'', ed. Stanley Sadie (London) {{ISBN|0-333-73432-7}}
* Pitou, Spire, ''The Paris Opéra. An Encyclopedia of Operas, Ballets, Composers, and Performers – Genesis and Glory, 1671-1715'', Greenwood Press, Westport/London, 1983 {{ISBN|0-313-21420-4}}
* Pitou, Spire, ''The Paris Opéra. An Encyclopedia of Operas, Ballets, Composers, and Performers – Rococo and Romantic, 1715-1815'', Greenwood Press, Westport/London, 1985 {{ISBN|0-313-24394-8}}
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