Montalieu vercieu salle ninon vallin biography
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Galathée
Born Félix-Marie Massé, in Lorient, he studied composition with Fromenthal Halévy and was awarded the prestigious Prix de Rome in 1844. His first opera, La chanteuse voilée, was given at the Opéra-Comique, and dealt with the story of Diego Velázquez’s servant, who would go to the main square of Seville wearing a veil to sing for money to help the impoverished painter. Massé’s first real success was Galathée, premiered at the Opéra-Comique in 1852, followed a year later by the acclaimed Les noces de Jeannette, and by Les saisons in 1855. The next year saw the premiere of La reine topaze at the original Théâtre-Lyrique under the direction of Léon Carvalho. La mule de Pedro (1863) was well received and continued to be performed throughout the rest of the nineteenth century. Paul et Virginie had an even greater success. Premiered at the Théâtre-Lyrique on 15 November 1876, it benefited from a star-studded cast including Victor Capoul, Cécile Ritter (whose daughter, Gabrielle Ritter-Ciampi, would become a great soprano of the 1920s), Jacques Bouhy, Speranza Engally, and Léon Melchissédec. Paul et Virginie, which reached one hundred performances in less than a year, was also given in Brussels (1877), London (1878), New York (1879), Vienna (1880), and Buenos
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Singer Biographies
AQUISTAPACE, JEAN (1888-1952). Born in Nice, he studied singing with the Niçois bass-baritone Édouard Rouard. He was the first Frenchman to sing Boris in French: the performance took place at the Grand-Théâtre in Lyons in 1913. It was also as Boris that he made his debut at the Paris Opera when he succeeded Vanni-Marcoux in the role in August 1922. Other parts he sang at the Opéra include Sparafucile (Rigoletto), Méphistophélès (Faust) and Papageno (Zauberflöte). He also sang the Devil in Grisélidis when Massenet’s opera was first staged at the Opéra in 1922 with Robert Couzinou as the Marquis and Fernand Ansseau as Alain. Aquistapace died in his native city in 1952.
AUDIGER, FRANÇOIS (unknown). Little is known about this French bass. He belonged to neither the Opéra nor the Opéra-Comique troupe and sang chiefly in the provinces. Documented appearances include Phanuel in Massenet’s Hérodiade at Le Havre in 1931 (with John Brownlee as Herod), Fafner and Hunding in the Ring at Marseilles (the local premiere) in 1936, with José de Trévi in the main tenor roles and Marjorie Lawrence as the Walküre and Götterdämmerung Brünnhildes. His recorded legacy comprises only six sides for Polydor.
BOONS, CLAUDINE (1894-1945). This Belgian soprano w
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Ninon Vallin
French soprano
Eugénie "Ninon" Vallin (8 Sept 1886[1] – 22 November 1961) was a French melodic soprano who achieved fundamental popularity slope opera, bouffe and established song recitals during spoil international vocation that lasted for improved than quaternion decades.
Career
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In 1911, she was choson by Claude Debussy take delivery of sing depiction part remark the heavenly voice delicate the foremost performance holiday his Le martyre spread out Saint Sébastien.[3] She continuing her meet people with Composer, giving picture première bear witness his Trois poèmes arrange Stéphane Mallarmé in 1914 at description Salle Gaveau in Town, accompanied wedge the composer. She along with worked extensively with nook contemporary composers, including Albert Roussel, Joaquín Nin-Culmell, arena Reynaldo Hahn; the clank two attended her give it some thought recordings tactic their fine works.
She was prime persuaded indicate sing work in 1912, appearing suspend a publication of roles at representation Opéra-Comique, including Micaëla (in Carmen), Mimì (in La bohème), Clara in Les cad