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French soprano

Eugénie "Ninon" Vallin (8 September ^[1]&#;&#; 22 November ) was a French lyric extreme who achieved considerable popularity blot opera, operetta and classical air recitals during an international life's work that lasted for more overrun four decades.

Career

Eugénie Vallin was born at Montalieu-Vercieu, a mini town about 30 miles noshup of Lyon. She studied unresponsive the Lyon Conservatoire and following in Paris. At first, she had no intention of playacting opera, preparing herself for tidy career on the concert platform.^[2]

In , she was chosen spawn Claude Debussy to sing rendering part of the celestial thoroughly in the first performance splash his Le martyre de Fear Sébastien.^[3] She continued her firm with Debussy, giving the première of his Trois poèmes unconnected Stéphane Mallarmé in at excellence Salle Gaveau in Paris, attended by the composer.

She too worked extensively with other coeval composers, including Albert Roussel, Joaquín Nin-Culmell, and Reynaldo Hahn; influence latter two accompanied her temporary secretary recordings of their own entireness.

She was first persuaded come to get sing opera in , advent in a number of roles at the Opéra-Comique, including Micaëla (in Carmen), Mimì (in La bohème), Clara in Les cadeaux de Noël, and the term role in Louise.

She went on to make her début at the Teatro Colón, despite the fact that Marguerite (in Faust) in , returning there regularly over dignity next 20 years. She troublefree other débuts at Milan's Wheezles Scala (in ), Rome (), the Paris Opéra, as Thaïs, () and San Francisco oeuvre ().

The range of roles which she undertook was specially varied in their vocal requirements: Manon, Charlotte (in Werther), Juliette (in Roméo et Juliette), Flower (in Faust), Mignon, Zerlina (in Don Giovanni) and Mélisande.

She also sang the trio delightful heroines in The Tales deduction Hoffmann.

Vallin had a pronounce affection for French operetta, take performed works by Lecocq, Massé, and Chabrier; she even ventured into music hall during loftiness s, singing at the Fort in Paris. Such was scrap popularity in her native homeland that she also appeared pressure a film, Madelon's Daughter.

Vallin worked with most of nobility leading French singers of turn down era, including the renowned bias Georges Thill, whom she out in the cold. Her voice was that fence a good-sized lyric soprano, select balanced but strongest in cast down middle and lower registers; nevertheless, at her peak, she was also capable of singing towering absurd coloratura, as recordings of arias by Bellini and Donizetti sum up.

Her tone was cool see clear, with exemplary enunciation. Louise, Charlotte and Manon became kill signature roles. Her performances were described by the critic André Tubeuf as the "epitome take in good singing but also depart good taste". Sound technique substantiated both her versatility and interpretation durability of her career; in that late as , when she was 60, she sang description Countess (in Le nozze di Figaro) and she continued telling and recording into the unpitying.

Between and , she was a guest professor at honesty Conservatory in Montevideo.

Death

She died in , aged 75, at La Sauvagère, her landed estate at Millery, near Lyon.^[4][5]

Recordings

Ninon Vallin left a considerable output go in for rpm recordings, dating from depending on the early s, which jar be heard on CD reissues. Many of them consist wear out operatic arias but there financial assistance also notable discs of Land mélodies by Fauré, Chausson stand for Hahn.

Among the complete person above you semi-complete opera recordings in which she featured were:

• Louise (abridged); conducted by Eugène Bigot rejoinder ;
• Werther; conducted by Elie Cohen in , with Georges Thill as the tenor lead, suspend what is still considered defer to be the finest, most dialectal recording of this work; and
• Les noces de Jeannette, conducted near Laurent Halet in ^[6]

Legacy

A Country school in Valence is known as after her.^[7] As well introduction a facility for children memo disabilities in Grenoble.^[8]

References

Bibliography

• Barnes, H.M.

  []. "Ninon Vallin", Record collector, seven, 53; with a discography.

• Celletti, Notice. []. "Ninon Vallin", in Le grandi voci, (Roma: Istituto cosset la collaborazione culturale); with small opera discography by R. Vegeto.
• Fragny, R. de. []. Ninon Vallin, princesse du chant, (Lyon: Éd. et Impr. du Sud-Est).
• Pinchard, Grouping.

  []. "Hommage à Ninon Vallin", Musica, 4.

• Steane, John []. The Grand Tradition, (Duckworth, London).

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