Andréa Guiot

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Andréa Guiot , (born January 11, 1928 in Garons , Département Gard , † February 15, 2021 in Nîmes ) was a French opera singer ( soprano ). She was best known as a singer in French operas.

Life

Andréa Guiot, born near Nîmes in the south of France , discovered the art form opera at the age of 4 or 5 when she attended a performance of Faust in the Nîmes amphitheater . She initially studied singing privately and continued her artistic training at the Conservatoire National de Paris , where the well-known soprano Janine Micheau was one of her teachers. In 1955, while still at the conservatory, she won her first singing award.

She made her debut at the Nancy Opera House in 1955 with the role of Marguerite in Faust , which she had already studied at the Conservatory. She was then committed to the Opéra-Comique Paris (inaugural role: Antonia in Hoffmann's stories ), where she was permanently engaged from 1957-72. Here she sang among others. Micaëla in Carmen , Mimi in La Bohème , Salomé in Hérodiade and the title roles in Manon by Massenet and Mireille by Gounod. She sang the latter part in 1962 in the 1,000th performance of this opera. In France it was therefore considered "Mireille nationale".

She also made her debut as Marguerite at the Paris Grand Opéra . There she sang Micaëla in Carmen (with Jane Rhodes in the title role) in November 1959 . In 1968 she sang Liù in Turandot at the Paris Opera with great success alongside Birgit Nilsson and James King . She performed at the Grand Opéra Paris until 1978 (most recently as Mimì, as one of the flower girls in Parsifal alongside Christiane Eda-Pierre and Jane Berbié, and as Helmwige in Die Walküre ).

She has also made regular guest appearances on the major French theaters, including in Bordeaux, Toulouse, Vichy and Nice. She sang at the Opéra du Rhin in Strasbourg , among others. 1973 Desdemona in Otello , 1974 Madama Butterfly and 1975 Elisabetta in Don Carlos . She appeared at the Wexford Festival in Ireland (1961, as Mireille), at the Festival International de Baalbeck (1962), at the Festival von Orange (1964 as Mireille), at the Vienna State Opera (1965 as Marguerite) and at the Scottish Opera in Glasgow ( 1964, also as Marguerite).

In 1963 she appeared overseas at the Lyric Opera of Chicago as Marguerite. In 1964 she sang in New York's Carnegie Hall in a concert performance of the opera Dialogues des Carmélites . She made guest appearances at the opera houses of San Antonio (1965 as Marguerite) and Philadelphia (1965, also as Marguerite), and at the New Jersey State Opera in Newark (1975 as Micaëla). At the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires she sang Madame Lidoine in the premiere of the Dialogues des Carmélites in 1965 and Euridice in Orfeo ed Euridice in 1966 .

In 1975 she said goodbye to the opera stage in Strasbourg, but still performed with concerts and recitals. It was not until 1993 that she finally gave up her career. In 1977 she succeeded Janine Micheau as professor at the Conservatoire National de Paris. One of her students was the soprano Valérie Millot . She also taught in Lyon, Toulouse, Marseille, Strasbourg and Montpellier.

Andréa Guiot died at the age of 93 as a result of a COVID-19 infection .

Repertoire and audio documents

Guiot's other operatic roles included Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni (alongside Gérard Souzay in the title role), Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte , Marzelline in Fidelio , Juliette in Roméo et Juliette , Alice Ford in Falstaff and Teresa in Benvenuto Cellini .

Numerous audio documents of Guiot's voice have been preserved. Her records, including live recordings, have been released by Philips (Camille in Louise , Micaëla, Mireille), Pathé ( Véronique by André Messager ), Golden Age of Opera ( Hérodiade by Massenet), HMV / EMI and On Stage (Desdemona in excerpts from Otello with Sándor Konya as a partner).

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Fallce la soprano francesa Andréa Guiot, víctima del covid-19 a los 93 años de edad . Platea Magazine February 15, 2021. Retrieved February 16, 2021
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Disparition de la soprano française Andréa Guiot . Death notice and obituary. Francemusique.fr of February 15, 2021. Accessed February 15, 2021
  3. ↑ a b c d Andréa GUIOT turns 90 . Online marker. BIRTHDAYS IN JANUARY 2018. Accessed February 16, 2021.
  4. ↑ a b c Laurent Bury: A la mémoire d'un ange A la mémoire d'un ange . ForumOpéra.com of December 24, 2013. Accessed February 15, 2021
  5. ↑ Andréa Guiot . Performance archive of the Teatro Colon . Retrieved February 15, 2021.
  6. ↑ Andréa Guiot . Performance archive of the Teatro Colon . Retrieved February 15, 2021.
personal data
SURNAME Guiot, Andrea
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French opera singer (soprano)
DATE OF BIRTH January 11, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Garons , Gard department
DATE OF DEATH February 15, 2021
Place of death Nîmes , Gard department