Mady Mesplé

Mady Mesplé ( born March 7, 1931 in Toulouse ) is a French soprano.

Mesplé studied at the conservatory, first piano, then singing and continued her studies in Paris with Georges Jouatte and Janine Micheau. 1953 she made ​​her debut at the Opera House of Liege, whose ensemble she belonged to three years in the title role of Léo Delibes ' Lakmé. In addition, she 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 in 1962 she appeared at the premiere of the opera Princesse Pauline by Henri Tomasi and 1963 with the premiere of Le dernier Sauvage by Gian Carlo Menotti. She gave guest performances at the opera in Rome, the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, and the Bavarian State Opera in Munich. In 1972, she appeared at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow and made his debut at the Metropolitan Opera in New York as Gilda in Verdi's Rigoletto.

Her repertoire included not only the Lakmé among others the title role in Charles Gounod's Mireille and Juliet in his Romeo and Juliet, the Philina in Ambroise Thomas ' Mignon and Ophélie in the Hamlet, the Queen of the Night in Mozart's Magic Flute, the title role of Gaetano Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor, the Rosina in Gioachino Rossini's Barber of Seville, as well as Sophie in Richard Strauss' Der Rosenkavalier and Zerbinetta in Ariadne auf Naxos whose.

On board she took, inter alia, Games from Lakmé, Georges Bizet's Don Procopio, Charles Lecocqs La fille de Madame Angot, André Messager Véronique, Reynaldo Hahn ciboulette, Robert Jean Julien Planquettes Les cloches de Corneville, André- Ernest- Modeste Grétry Zémire et et Azor, Eric Satie's Socrate, Jules Massenet Werther, Rossini's Guillaume Tell Jacques Offenbach's Orpheus in the underworld, and from Daniel -François- Esprit Auber's opera Manon Lescaut and Fra Diavolo on.

  • Opera singer
  • Soprano
  • Coloratura soprano
  • Support of the French National Order of Merit ( Grand Officer )
  • Member of the Legion of Honor ( Commander )
  • Frenchman
  • Born in 1931
  • Woman
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