Caroline Miolan-Carvalho
Marie Caroline Miolan-Carvalho (born December 31, 1827 in Marseille ; died July 10, 1895 in Château-Puys, Seine-Inférieure ) was a French opera singer .
Life
Marie Caroline Felix Miolan received her first lessons from her father, the oboist François Félix Miolan. She studied singing at the Conservatoire National de Paris with the tenor Gilbert Duprez . In 1849 she made her debut at the Brest Opera House as Isabella in Robert le diable by Giacomo Meyerbeer and in the same year at the Opéra-Comique Paris in Lucia di Lammermoor in the title role.
Until 1855 she sang the world premieres of the operas Giralda ou La Nouvelle Psyché by Adolphe Adam (1850), Le Carillonneur de Bruges by Albert Grisar (1852), Le nabab by Jacques Fromental Halévy (1853) and Les noces de Jeannette by Victor Massé (1853). Between 1852 and 1856 she was also prima donna at the Théâtre Lyrique in Paris.
Miolan married the singer and opera director Léon Carvalho (1825-1897) in 1853 . Miolan-Carvalho became famous with the female main characters in world premieres of the operas by Charles Gounod : Faust 1859, Philémon et Baucis 1860, whose score was dedicated to her, Mireille in 1864 , in which Gounod added an aria especially for her, and also Roméo et Juliette in 1867 In 1860 they traveled to Baden-Baden to give the world premiere of Gounod's La colombe .
She was also considered a Mozart interpreter and sang the soprano roles in the Magic Flute , in Don Giovanni and in Figaro's wedding . In 1856 she worked at the Théâtre Lyrique both in the world premiere of the opera La Fanchonette by Antoine-Louis Clapisson and La Reine Topaze by Victor Massé , and in 1857 in the opera Margot by Clapisson.
Between 1859 and 1864 she made regular guest appearances at the Covent Garden Opera in London and again in the 1871/72 season. She also had guest appearances in Berlin, Brussels, Marseille and St. Petersburg.
From 1868 to 1883 she sang at both the Grand Opéra and the Opéra-Comique. In 1872 she celebrated the 1000th performance of Ferdinand Hérold's opera Le Pré aux clercs in the role of Isabella and in 1894 she was the guest of honor at the Grand Opéra for the 1000th performance of Gounod's Faust .
Miolan-Carvalho took her stage farewell in 1885 and worked as a singing teacher for the next few years. She is buried on the Cimetière du Père Lachaise .
literature
- Miolan-Carvalho, Marie , in: Großes Sängerlexikon , 2000, pp. 16668–16671
Web links
- Literature by and about Caroline-Marie Carvalho in the bibliographic database WorldCat
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Miolan-Carvalho, Caroline |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Miolan-Carvalho, Marie Caroline; Miolan Félix, Marie Caroline (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French opera singer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 31, 1827 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Marseille |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 10, 1895 |
| Place of death | Château-Puys, Seine-inférieure department |