Lucy Berthet

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Portrait of Lucy Berthet -
photography by Jean Reutlinger , before 1900

Lucy Berthet , actually Lucie Adeline Marie Bertrand (born May 13, 1866 in Dinant ; died after 1919 ) was a Belgian opera singer ( soprano ). She performed mostly at the Paris Opera .

Life

Lucie Adeline Marie Bertrand was born in Dinant, Belgium in 1866. She later performed with the stage name Lucy Berthet. She received her musical training as a singer at the Conservatoire de Paris , where the opera singer Edmond Duvernoy was one of her teachers. In 1892 she won the Premier Prix d'Opéra ( first prize for opera singing ) at the Conservatory and made her debut at the Paris Opera on September 25 of the same year in the role of Ophélie in the opera Hamlet by Ambroise Thomas . Other roles followed such as Juliette in Roméo et Juliette by Charles Gounod and Gilda in Rigoletto by Giuseppe Verdi in 1892 . After that, she was in 1893 as Elsa of Brabant in Lohengrin by Richard Wagner , as Ortlinde in the French version of Wagner's Die Walküre and in the title role of the opera Gwendoline by Emmanuel Chabrier to see. In 1894 she appeared as Marguerite in Faust by Charles Gounod and as Thaïs in the opera of the same name by Jules Massenet . This was followed in 1895 by Helena in the opera La Montagne noire by Augusta Holmès , in 1896 by Zerlina in Don Giovanni by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , in 1897 by Marguerite de Valois in Die Huguenots by Giacomo Meyerbeer and the Hélène in Messidor by Alfred Bruneau . Her last roles in 1899 included Briséïs in Emmanuel Chabrier's Briséïs ou les Amants de Corinthe .

Lucy Berthet was in a relationship with the banker, art collector and opera lover Isaac de Camondo for several years . Two sons, recognized as biological children by de Camondo, come from this relationship, but they have the surname Bertrand. The two sons were the writer Jean Bertrand (1902–1980) and the actor Paul Bertrand (1903–1978). Public appearances by Lucy Berthet have not been documented since the children were born. On April 15, 1919, she married the officer Louis Michel Aloïsi. There is no reliable information about her future life.

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