Jérôme de La Gorce

Jérôme de La Gorce (born 1951 in Paris) is a French art historian and musicologist. He is a specialist in dramatic music and performing arts in France in the 17th and 18th centuries.

Career After having followed a double university course, he defended a thesis dedicated to the "marvelous in the opera under the reign of Louis XIV".

Director of research at the CNRS, a member of the (UMR 8150), he also teaches at Paris-Sorbonne University.

Publications 1986: Jean Bérain the Elder, dessinateur du Roi Soleil, Paris, Herscher 1991: Marin Marais (with Sylvette Milliot), Paris, Fayard 1992: L'Opéra à Paris au temps de Louis XIV : histoire d'un théâtre, Desjonquères 1997: Féeries d’opéra : décors, machines et costumes en France (1645–1765), Paris, éditions du Patrimoine 2002: Jean-Baptiste Lully, Paris, Fayard, 2005: Carlo Vigarani, intendant des plaisirs de Louis XIV, Perrin