Zulma Bouffar
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Zulma Bouffar , actually Magdelaine Bouffar (born May 24, 1841 in Nérac ; † January 20, 1909 in Couilly-Pont-aux-Dames ) was a French child actress , stage actress , opera singer ( soprano ) and soubrette .
Life
Zulma Bouffar came from a family of actors and was already on stage in children's roles at the age of seven. At the age of twelve she went to Germany, where she played theater and appeared in taverns with French songs. From 1860 to 1862 she was engaged in Liège . When she performed in Homburg vor der Höhe in 1863 , there was a man in the audience who was to change her life: Jacques Offenbach .
Offenbach had her sing the world premiere of Lieschen and Fritzchen in Bad Ems that same year and then brought her to Paris , where she made her debut in the same work at his Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens in 1864 . Offenbach was impressed by her attractive appearance, her temperament, her acting talent and her singing talent. The soubrette and the composer became lovers. Their liaison, from which two children emerged, caused turbulence between Offenbach and his wife Herminie, whom he nevertheless did not leave.
In the following years Offenbach wrote many roles for Bouffar and made it as a star, for "Patti d'Opérette", as he called (after the last great bel canto - Diva Adelina Patti ).
In 1864 she performed at the Bouffes-Parisiens in Il Signor Fagotto and in Les Géorgiennes . In the same year she premiered Jeanne qui pleure et Jean qui rit in Bad Ems and in 1865 she played the double role of Jeanne and Jean at the Bouffes-Parisiens.
In 1866 she was Gabrielle at the premiere of Parisian Life at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal . In 1867 Offenbach incorporated the role of Page Drogan for her in the 2nd version of Geneviève de Brabant . In 1868 she performed in Toto's castle , in 1869 she was the original line-up for Fragoletto in Die Banditen , in 1872 for Robin-Luron in Le roi Carotte , in 1873 she sang in Les Braconniers and in 1875 she sang Prince Caprice in Le Voyage dans la Lune .
Bouffar was a candidate for the title role in the world premiere of Georges Bizet's Carmen in 1875, but ultimately did not get that role. Nevertheless, she embodied an operatic role in her career: she sang Papagena in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera Die Zauberflöte at the Théâtre-Lyrique . She also gave a guest appearance in St. Petersburg and was involved in the Paris premieres of the Johann Strauss operas Indigo (1875) and Die Fledermaus (1877).
In 1887 she took over the management of the Théâtre de l'Ambigu-Comique in Paris, which she held until she retired from professional life in 1902. From then on, Bouffar lived in a retirement home for artists in Couilly-Pont-aux-Dames, where she died in 1909.
literature
- Alexander Faris: Jacques Offenbach. Zurich: Atlantis-Musikbuch-Verlag 1982.
- Heinz-Klaus Metzger , Rainer Rien (editor): Jacques Offenbach. Music Concepts 13, edition text + kritik 1980.
- P. Walter Jacob : Jacques Offenbach in personal testimonies and photo documents. Reinbek b. Hamburg: Rowohlt 1986. (Rowohlt's Monographs. 155.)
- Siegfried Kracauer : Jacques Offenbach and the Paris of his time. Frankfurt a. M .: Suhrkamp 1994.
- First edition: Jacques Offenbach and the Paris of his time. Amsterdam: Allert de Lange 1937.
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| SURNAME | Bouffar, Zulma |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bouffar, Magdelaine (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French child actress, stage actress, opera singer (soprano) and soubrette |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 24, 1841 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nérac |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 20, 1909 |
| Place of death | Couilly-Pont-aux-Dames |