Rosine Stoltz
| Rosine Stoltz | |
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| Born |
Victoire or Victorine Noël 13 January 1815 Paris |
| Died |
30 July 1903 (aged 88) Paris |
Rosine Stoltz (born Victoire or Victorine Noël) (13 January 1815 – 30 July 1903)[1] was a French mezzo-soprano. A prominent member of the Paris Opéra, she created many leading roles there including Ascanio in Berlioz's Benvenuto Cellini, Marguerite in Auber's Le lac des fées, the title role in Marie Stuart, and two Donizetti heroines, Leonor in La favorite and Zayda in Dom Sébastien.
She trained with Alexandre-Étienne Choron.[2] Stolz died in Paris, the city of her birth, aged 88.
Career
Her place of prominence at the Paris Opera was influenced by her relationship with the director, Léon Pillet. Pillet refused to mount an opera without a role for his mistress; this was one reason for the long-delayed première of Meyerbeer's opera Le prophète, as the composer, who could not abide Stolz, insisted on Pauline Viardot for the role of Fidès. In view of the circumstances, Donizetti decided to abandon his original project for the Opéra, Le duc d'Albe, and instead composed La favorite with the role of Leonor perfectly suited for Stoltz.[3]
Stoltz resigned from the Opera in 1847 in a scandal over her relationship with Pillet.[4] She may have had a child with Pillet, as they traveled Le Havre for a time due to her "indisposition".[5] She was married for a while to a theater director in Brussels, and later married into the aristocracy.
References
- ↑ Bord (1909) p. 204 quoting from Stoltz's death certificate. See also Pougin (2 August 1903) p. 244. Note that Randel (1996) p. 872 and Kutsch & Riemens (2003) p. 4551 give her death date as 28 July, while Smart (2008) p. 467 gives the date as 29 July.
- ↑ Cambridge 2003.
- ↑ Gossett (2006)
- ↑ Randel 1996, p. 872.
- ↑ Jordan 1996, p. 122.
Sources
- Bord, Gustave (1909). Rosina Stoltz, Henri Daragon, 1909 (French)
- Gossett, Philip. Divas and Scholars: Performing Italian Opera. University of Chicago Press, 2006, pp. 60–61. ISBN 0-226-30482-5.
- Jordan, Ruth (1994). Fromental Halévy: His Life & Music, 1799–1862. London: Kahn & Averill. ISBN 9781871082517.
- Kutsch, K. J.; Riemens, Leo (2003). Grosses Sängerlexikon (fourth edition, in German). Munich: K. G. Saur. ISBN 978-3-598-11598-1.
- Pougin, Arthur (2 August 1903). "Rosine Stoltz". Le Ménestrel. Retrieved online via the Bibliothèque nationale de France 11 May 2013 (French).
- Randel, Don Michael (1996). The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674372993.
- Smart, Mary Ann (1994). "The Lost Voice of Rosine Stoltz", Cambridge Opera Journal, Vol. 6, No. 1 (Mar., 1994), pp. 31–50
- Smart, Mary Ann (2003). "Roles, reputations, shadows: Singers at the Opéra" in David Charlton (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Grand Opera, 108–130. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-64683-9
- Smart, Mary Ann (2008). "Stoltz, Rosine (Noël, Victoire)" in Laura Williams Macy (ed), The Grove Book of Opera Singers, pp. 467–468. Oxford University Press ISBN 0-19-533765-4
External links
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