Jacques Albert Rouchouse (13 April 1946 â 4 September 2024) was a French radio producer, music critic, and writer. He produced numerous musical radio shows and was one of the largest operetta promoters in France.
Born in the 4th arrondissement of Lyon on 13 April 1946, Rouchouse developed a fascination for music at a young age while listening to radio shows hosted by the likes of . He attended his first stage production on 7 February 1960, an opéra comique titled La fille du tambour-major and first written by Jacques Offenbach. In 1973, he moved to Paris and was hired to host the radio show Dialogues de France-Culture on the Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision Française, which ran from 1973 to 1984. In 1979, he proposed a project for lyrical broadcasts on France Culture alongside , which culminated in the production of LâÂÂopérette câÂÂest la fête, which ran from 1981 to 1988. He also collaborated on the show Le Grand Débat alongside Jacques Julliard, which covered operettas. Julliard spoke of Rouchouse's "vocation" for the theatre form.
In 1999, Rouchouse was hired by the Presses Universitaires de France to cover operettas. He created a monography on the composer Hervé, which was described as a "chronicle of French society and especially of the Parisian artistic milieu". According to Le Monde, the work had a great impact "by plunging into this parallel world - this half-world which fascinated the great - it is almost a civilization that one discovers". As a member of the , he stayed in Lauris following his retirement. This was chosen because it was the childhood home of Joseph-François Garnier, on whom he wrote a biography.
Rouchouse died in Lauris on 4 September 2024, at the age of 78.