Gustave Worms

Although elected to the company's élite group of sociétaires in 1864, he found his elevation blocked by the French government, and took up a ten-year engagement at the Théâtre-Michel in St. Petersburg, where his star status was recognised.

After six years of constant progress and dedicated service, he was unanimously elected to the élite group of sociétaires of the company in 1864, but the requisite ministerial ratification of his appointment was not immediately forthcoming.

Frustrated, Worms accepted an offer from Russia and served a decade with the Theatre-Français Impérial company at the Théâtre-Michel in St Petersburg.

[6] Worms returned to Paris in 1874, and joined the company of the Théâtre du Gymnase, opening in La Dame aux camélias.

[8] Five years after Worms retired from his professorship in 1900, Gabriel Fauré, the director of the Conservatoire, appointed him to its governing board, the conseil supérieur de l'Ecole.