Germaine Cernay

Germaine Cernay ( born April 28, 1900 in Le Havre, † 1943 in Paris, born Germaine pointu ) was a French mezzo-soprano.

Cernay took piano lessons as a child and solfege and wanted to become a pianist at first. But instead, she studied singing at the Conservatoire de Paris in 1925 and debuted at the Paris Opera as Gabriel Fauré's opera Euryclée in Penelope. However, their great career she had at the Opéra -Comique, where she made ​​her debut in Franco Alfano Risurrezione on the side of Mary Garden 1927. After minor roles she sang here later Mallika in Léo Delibes ' " Lakmé ", the title roles in Ambroise Thomas ' " Mignon " and Georges Bizet's " Carmen ", the Charlotte in Jules Massenet's " Werther " and Geneviève in Debussy's " Pelléas et Mélisande ". In 1930 she took part in the premiere of Omer Letoreys opera Le Sicily.

Great success had Cerney at several French provincial theaters as well as on the Brussels La Monnaie. She gave guest performances in North Africa, Switzerland, England, Ireland and Italy in 1939 and entered the Maggio Musicale in Florence Maurice Ravel L' Enfant et les sortilèges on. When French radio she sang the soprano part of Melisande in Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande. She became known as a major interpreter of Bach.

From Cerney many recordings, especially from the years 1929 to 1933 are available from Odeon. Columbia published with her a short version of Thomas ' Mignon, HMV a complete recording of Pelléas et Mélisande, and Cerney also sang a complete recording of Bizet's Carmen.

  • Opera singer
  • Mezzo-soprano
  • Frenchman
  • Born 1900
  • Died in 1943
  • Woman
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