Célestine Galli-Marié

Célestine Galli-Marié
Galli-Marié was the original Carmen, photo by Félix Nadar.

Célestine Galli-Marié (November 1840 – 22 September 1905) was a French mezzo-soprano most famous for creating the title role in the opera Carmen.[1]

Career

Galli-Marié premièred the rôle of Mignon in 1866.

She was born Marie-Célestine Laurence Marié de l'Isle in Paris. She was taught singing by her father, Mécène Marié de l'Isle, who also had a successful opera career. Her début came in 1859 in Strasbourg, and she sang in Italian in Lisbon.[2] At the age of fifteen she had married a sculptor named Galli (who died in 1861)[2] and thus took her stage name, Galli-Marié.

Émile Perrin, the director of the Opéra-Comique, heard her performing Balfe's The Bohemian Girl at Rouen and brought her to Paris. She sang at the Opéra-Comique until 1885, premiering in Pergolesi's La serva padrona. Her most famous roles were in Thomas's Mignon (1866) and Bizet's Carmen (1875). It was said that at the 33rd performance of Carmen on 2 June 1875, Galli-Marié had a premonition of Bizet's death while singing the cards scene in Act III, and fainted when she left the stage; the composer in fact died that night and the next performance was cancelled due to her indisposition.[3] Undertaking much touring, she performed Carmen in Naples (the Italian premiere) Genoa, Barcelona, Lyon, Liege and Dieppe before returning in the Opéra-Comique revival of the original production on 22 October 1883.[2] In London she appeared at Her Majesty's Theatre in a touring production in 1886, and returned to the Opéra-Comique in 1890 to sing in a fundraising performance to erect a monument to Bizet (this was her final performance).[1]

She also created the roles of Lazarille in Don César de Bazan, Vendredi in Robinson Crusoé, the title part in Fantasio, as well as roles in Lara, Le Capitaine Henriot, Fior d'Aliza, La Petite Fadette, and Piccolino. She also sang Taven in Mireille and Rose Friquet in Les dragons de Villars.[4][5] Sometime in the late 1860s and early 1870s she and the composer Emile Paladilhe became lovers. Curtiss notes that she kept pet marmosets, and sometimes brought them to rehearsal.[2]

She died in Vence, near Nice.

Her voice was described as being of a good timbre, with clear diction and phrasing. A high mezzo-soprano voice was at one time referred to as "Galli-Marié.[6] Galli-Marié parts are now sometimes sung by sopranos.

Family

Her sisters Irma and Paola were also professional singers. Irma created roles in L'amour chanteur in 1864 and in Les bergers in 1865; she toured the USA before returning to the Paris Opéra-Comique. Paola was prominent in operetta and created roles for Lecocq, appearing a great deal in the USA. Galli-Marié and Irma sang together in Madeleine at the Théâtre des Bouffes Parisiens in 1869.[7]

References

Célestine Galli-Marié in Carmen, by Henri Lucien Doucet (1884), musée de Marseille, Marseilles
  1. ^ a b Wright LA. Galli-Marié. In: The New Grove Dictionary of Opera. Macmillan, London & New York, 1992.
  2. ^ a b c d Curtiss M. Bizet and his world. New York, Vienna House, 1974.
  3. ^ Dean W. Bizet. London, JM Dent & Sons, 1978.
  4. ^ Soubies A, Malherbe C. Histoire de l'opéra comique – La seconde salle Favart 1840–1887. Flammarion, Paris, 1893.
  5. ^ Martin J. Nos artistes des theatres et concerts. Paul Ollendorff, Paris, 1895.
  6. ^ Moure, J G É, Bouyer, A. The abuse of the singing and speaking voice, causes, effects and treatment. K. Paul, Trench, Trübner, London, 1910.
  7. ^ Gänzl K. The Encyclopaedia of the Musical Theatre. Blackwell, Oxford, 1994.

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