Mathilde Auguez
Pauline Mathilde Lucie Auguez de Montalant (28 March 1868 – 18 July 1955) was a French opera singer (light soprano).
Biography
[edit | edit source]Training
[edit | edit source]Auguez was born in Amiens. Her father, Auguste Jules Arsène, was employed by the railway. As a student at the Conservatoire de Paris, she received a third medal for solfège in 1885, a first prize for opéra comique in 1886, a second singing prize in 1887 and a second prize for opéra comique in 1887.[1]
Career
[edit | edit source]Her stage debut was in 1887 at the Opéra-Comique.[2] Her first important role, on 29 March 1888, was at that theatre in Madame Turlupin,[3] an opéra comique by Ernest Guiraud, in which she played Isabelle. She then sang in le Baiser de Suzon[4] by Herman Bemberg (premiere, role of Suzon); in Gounod's Mireille and Maillard's Les dragons de Villars. On 30 January 1889, she premiered Louis Varney's la Vénus d'Arles at the Théâtre des Nouveautés.[5] On 11 December 1891, at the Théâtre des Variétés, she was Denise de Flavigny in Hervé's Mam'zelle Nitouche. Later at the Variétés, she played in Offenbach's les Brigands.
In 1894, she gave a song recital at la Bodinière, which earned her this comment in la Caricature:
The divine Romance was dead! when fortunately, in the year of grace 1894, Miss Mathilde Auguez, granddaughter of Loïsa Puget, and Mr. Cooper, grandson of Pierre-Jean Garat, raised it up again.[6]
Her performances were frequently acclaimed by critics. For example, the Journal amusant wrote in 1910:
Auguez de Montalant, who possesses to the supreme degree the science of singing, sang the Panis Angelicus and the Great Air of Redemption wonderfully. It was a great success, as usual. The voice is pure, clear, well timbred, excellent articulation, and Miss Auguez de Montlant also charms the audience with a style and knowledge of very rare nuances nowadays.[7]
On 10 March 1898, she married journalist and playwright Henri Lavedan.[8] Auguez died on 18 July 1955 at her home in the 6th arrondissement of Paris.[9] She is buried with her husband and their daughter Geneviève at Père-Lachaise Cemetery.[10]
References
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Auguez Mathilde (1868-1955) on Amis et passionnés du Père-Lachaise
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