Georgette Leblanc

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Georgette Leblanc, 1911
Georgette Leblanc as Monna Vanna in Paris

Georgette Leblanc (born February 8, 1869 in Rouen , † October 27, 1941 in Le Cannet ) was a French opera singer ( soprano ), actress and writer .

Life

Georgette Leblanc was the youngest daughter of a wealthy shipowner . Her older brother was the writer Maurice Leblanc .

In Paris she studied singing with Saint-Yves Bax . Her first engagement was in November 1893 as Françoise in the opera L'Attaque du Moulin at the Opéra-Comique in Paris. A year later she accepted an engagement at the Théâtre de la Monnaie , where she sang the title roles in Carmen and the Thaïs as well as the Anita from La Navarraise by Jules Massenet . Leblanc never got over the fact that Claude Debussy cast the role of Mélisande with the singer Mary Garden in 1902 for the world premiere of Pelléas et Mélisande , the libretto of which was written by her partner Maurice Maeterlinck (1863–1949) . In May 1907 she celebrated great success as Ariane in the opera Ariane et Barbe-Bleue at the Opéra-Comique.

In 1918 Maurice Maeterlinck left her after 23 years of partnership (they were never married) because of the 26-year-old actress Renée Dahon, with whom he had had a relationship for eight years. In the early 1920s Leblanc met the American writer Margaret Anderson (1886–1973) and lived with her in a harmonious and mutually beneficial relationship until her death in 1941.

Name in different phases of life

  • 1869–1895 Georgette Leblanc
  • 1895–1918 ( canceled ) Georgette Leblanc-Maeterlinck

Works

  • 1904 Le Choix de la Vie
  • 1919 Maeterlinck's Dogs
  • 1927 The Choice of Life
  • 1931 souvenir
  • 1932 Souvenirs: My life with Maeterlinck
  • 1947 La Machine à Courage , posthumously

literature

  • Paula R. Feldman: Margaret Anderson. American Writers in Paris, 1920–1939 , Dictionary of Literary Biography, Detroit (1980)
  • Maxime Benoît-Jeannin: "Georgette Leblanc", Le Cri, Bruxelles (1998)
  • William Patrick Patterson: Ladies of the Rope. Gurdjieff's Special Left Bank Women's Group (1996) ISBN 1-879514-41-9
  • Gabriele Griffin: Who's Who in Lesbian and Gay Writing , Routledge (2002)

Web links

Commons : Georgette Leblanc  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Maxime Benoît-Jeannin: Georgette Leblanc , Brussels (1998)