Mady Mesplé
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Mady Mesplé (born March 7, 1931 in Toulouse ; † May 30, 2020 there ) was a French opera singer (soprano).
Life
Mesplé first studied piano and then singing at the conservatory and continued her vocal training in Paris with Georges Jouatte and Janine Micheau . In 1953 she made her debut at the Liège Opera House, of which she was a member for three years, in the title role of Léo Delibes ' Lakmé . She also performed at the Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels.
In 1956 she became a member of the Paris Opera and the Opéra-Comique . At the Opéra-Comique she appeared in the world premiere of the opera Princesse Pauline by Henri Tomasi in 1962 and in the world premiere of Le dernier sauvage by Gian Carlo Menotti in 1963 . She has made guest appearances at the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma , at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires and at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich. In 1972 she appeared at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow and made her debut at the Metropolitan Opera in New York as Gilda in Giuseppe Verdi's Rigoletto .
Her repertoire included Lakmé a. a. the title role in Charles Gounod's Mireille and Juliette in his Roméo et Juliette , the Philine in Ambroise Thomas ' Mignon and Ophélie in his Hamlet , the Queen of the Night in Mozart's Magic Flute , the title role in Gaetano Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor , the Rosina in Gioachino Rossini's Barber of Seville as well as Sophie in Richard Strauss ' Rosenkavalier and Zerbinetta in his Ariadne auf Naxos .
On record she took u. a. Parts from Lakmé , Georges Bizets Don Procopio , Charles Lecocqs La fille de Madame Angot , André Messagers Véronique , Reynaldo Hahns Ciboulette , Robert Planquettes Les cloches de Corneville , André-Ernest-Modeste Grétrys Zémire et Azor , Erik Saties Socrate , Jules Massenets Werther , Rossini's Guillaume Tell , Jacques Offenbach's Orpheus in the Underworld and from Daniel-François-Esprit Auber's operas Manon Lescaut and Fra Diavolo .
Web links
- Mady Mesplé at Operissimo on the basis of the Great Singer Lexicon
- Mady Mesplé in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Mady Mesplé at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Guillaume Decalf: La grande soprano Mady Mesplé est morte. In: francemusique.fr . May 31, 2020, accessed on May 31, 2020 (French).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mesplé, Mady |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French opera singer (soprano) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 7, 1931 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Toulouse |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 30, 2020 |
| Place of death | Toulouse |