Emma Calve de Rocker ( French Emma Calvé ; August 15, 1858 , Dekazvil - January 6, 1942 , Montpellier ) - French opera singer ( soprano ). One of the most famous opera singers of the Belle Époque in France.
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Biography
Born in the family of a civil engineer. She spent her childhood in Spain with her parents, and studied at monastery schools in Roquefort and Tournerir (Aveyron). After her parents divorced, she moved with her mother to Paris . I tried to enter the Paris Conservatory .
She studied singing with L. Puget, M. Marquezi de Castrone , R. Laborde, M. Rodriguez Garcia .
In 1881 she made her debut on the stage of the La Monnet Brussels theater as Margarita in the opera Faust by S. Gounod . She performed in Paris on the stages of the “ Theater of Italian Comedy ” (1884, 1888–1892), “ Opera-Comedian ” (1885 and since 1892), “ Grand Opera ” (1899), in London (“ Covent Garden ” (1892), Milan " La Scala " (1887), in several cities in the United States .
The first performer of the main roles in the operas Sappho and J. Massenet , Friend of Fritz P. Mascagni .
She became famous in the roles of Santuzzi (“ Country Honor ” by P. Mascagni ) and especially Carmen ( opera of the same name by J. Bizet ). Before starting to study this party, Calvet went to Spain, studied Spanish dances and built a stage image, watching the girls working in cigarette factories. In 1894, she made her debut as Carmen in the Paris Opera Comic . Critics immediately called her the greatest Carmen ever to appear. And although Calve had many famous predecessors in this role, including Adeline Patti , Minnie Hawk and Celestine Galli-Marie , but critics and musicians agreed that in Calve they found their Carmen ideal from Seville.
In 1904, she participated in the jubilee 1000th performance in Opera Comic.
Leaving the opera stage, until 1927 she performed with concerts.
She showed great interest in paranormal phenomena and was associated with the occultist Henri Antoine Jules-Bois ,
She died in 1942 in Montpellier . She was buried in Millau ( Aveyron ). On the marble slab of her grave is written: "Sur ma tombe un petit bassin où les oiseaux viendront boire et chanter ..." (Let there be a small bowl on my grave where the birds will drink and sing).
Rewards
- Legion of Honor
In popular culture
The fictional version of Emma Calvet is one of the main characters in Michelle Oselo ’s animated film Dilily in Paris , released in 2018. [6]
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Internet Movie Database - 1990.
- ↑ BNF ID : 2011 Open Data Platform .
- ↑ Léonore database - ministère de la Culture .
- ↑ Encyclopædia Britannica
- ↑ SNAC - 2010.
- ↑ Philippe Guedj. Les secrets de fabrication de Dilili à Paris par Michel Ocelot .