page_title: Théodore Lajarte
section_title: Composer
hierarchical_section_title: Théodore Lajarte / Composer
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Costume d'Arlequin pour le ballet Les Jumeaux de Bergame
context_page_description: Théodore Lajarte was a French musicologist, librarian, and composer.
context_section_description: He was a composer of several works for the theater, including Monsieur de Floridor, a one-act opéra comique in two tableaux, lyrics by Charles Nuitter and Étienne Tréfeu after Louis Anseaume, first performed on 11 October 1880 by the Opéra-Comique at the second Salle Favart with Belhomme (Mathurin), Grivot (Floridor) and Mlle Ducasse (Thérèse). He gave the Opéra the one-act ballet-pantomime Les Jumeaux de Bergame, first performed on 26 January 1886 at the Palais Garnier, with words after Florian by Nuitter and Mérante and choreography by Mérante, with Mlle Subra (Caroline), very well received. His other works include Le Secret de l’Oncle Vincent (24 November 1855, Théâtre Lyrique), Mam’zelle Pénélope (3 November 1859, Théâtre Lyrique), Le Neveu de Gulliver (22 October 1861, Théâtre Lyrique), Le Portrait (18 June 1883, Opéra-Comique) and Le Roi de Carreau (26 October 1883, Théâtre des Nouveautés).
  Lajarte died in Paris at the age of 63 and is buried at Montmartre Cemetery.
caption: Costume design by Ludovic Lepic for Harlequin in Lajarte's ballet Les Jumeaux de Bergame
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