Marie-Cornélie Falcon

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Marie-Cornélie Falcon (1812-1897) was a French operatic singer. She had a dramatic soprano voice which reached into the mezzo-soprano range and gave her name to a type of dark soprano voice. Her career was remarkably short, only six years, and she is widely used as an example of the singer who pushes her voice beyond its prudent capacity and thus destroys it.

She created the roles of Rachel in Halévy's La Juive and of Valentine in Meyerbeer's Les Huguenots.