Georgette Bréjean-Silver
Georgette Bréjean-Silver , actually Georgette-Amélie Sisout (born September 22, 1870 in Paris , † August 1951 in Neuilly-sur-Seine ) was a French opera singer ( coloratura soprano ).
Life
Bréjean-Silver studied at the Conservatoire de Paris . In 1890 she made her debut at the Opéra National de Bordeaux , whose director Gravière she married. She had her first great success in the title role of the opera Manon by Jules Massenet in the Opéra-Comique in 1894. She embodied the role so convincingly that Massenet composed an additional gavotte for her for the premiere of the work in Brussels.
Bréjean-Silver sang the role of the fairy at the world premiere of Massenet's Cendrillon in 1899. Other important roles included a. Raisin in Gioacchino Rossini's The Barber of Seville , Philine in Ambroise Thomas ' Mignon , Euridice in Claudio Monteverdi's L'Orfeo , Leila in Georges Bizet's Les pêcheurs de perles and Rosenn in Édouard Lalo's Le roi d'Ys .
From 1900 Bréjean-Silver was married to the composer Charles Silver . Some of her recordings from 1905 and 1906 at Odeon and Fonotipia have been preserved.
Web links
- Georgette Bréjean-Silver at Operissimo on the basis of the Great Singer Lexicon
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Bréjean-Silver, Georgette |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sisout, Georgette-Amélie (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French opera singer (coloratura soprano) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 22, 1870 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 1951 |
| Place of death | Neuilly-sur-Seine |