Jeanne Gerville-Réache

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Jeanne Gerville-Réache (born March 26, 1882 in Orthez ; died January 5, 1915 in New York City ) was a French opera singer with an alto voice .

Life

Jeanne Gerville-Réache (1903)

Jeanne Gerville-Réache was a daughter of Gaston Gerville-Réache (1854-1908), governor of the French West Indies colony . Her mother was Spanish. She grew up in Martinique , came to Paris at the age of fifteen , took singing lessons from Rosine Laborde and Emma Calvé and completed her training with Pauline Viardot-Garcia . In 1899 she made her debut at the Opéra-Comique Paris as Orpheus in Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice . In 1900 she sang Cathérine in the world premiere of Camille Erlanger's Le Juif polonais . On April 30, 1902, she sang Geneviève in the world premiere of Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande . After a dispute with the director of the house, she left the Opéra-Comique in 1902 and went to the Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels in 1903 .

In 1905 she made a guest appearance as Orpheus in London's Covent Garden . In 1907 she first came to the Manhattan Opera House in New York, where she sang Geneviève in the American premiere of Pelléas et Mélisande in 1908 . In 1909 she sang the Italian version of De Herbergprinses by Jan Blockx and in 1910 the Klytämnestra in Elektra by Richard Strauss . Between 1910 and 1912 she sang Carmen , Dalila in Samson et Dalila Saint-Saëns, Brangäne in Tristan und Isolde and Fricka in Walküre with the Chicago-Philadelphia Opera Company . She was a guest at the Boston Opera, and in 1913/14 she was with the Canadian National Grand Opera in Montreal .

In 1910 she married the director of the New York Pasteur Institute Georges Ribier Rambaud, they had two sons. She died of food poisoning.

Recordings (selection)

  • Jeanne Gerville-Réache: the complete recordings, 1909-1913 . Wadhurst, E. Sussex, England: Opal, 1994, music CD

literature

  • Gerville-Réache, Jeanne , in: Großes Sängerlexikon , 2000, pp. 8822f.
  • The Grove Book of Opera Singers
  • J. McPherson & WR Moran: Jeanne Gerville-Réache . In: Record Collector , 1973-74

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personal data
SURNAME Gerville-Réache, Jeanne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French opera singer
DATE OF BIRTH March 26, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Orthez
DATE OF DEATH January 5, 1915
Place of death New York City