Caron, Rose (Lucille) (née Meuniez)
Caron, Rose (Lucille) (née Meuniez)
French soprano; b. Monerville, Nov. 17, 1857; d. Paris, April 9, 1930. She entered the Paris Cons, in 1880, leaving in 1882 to study with Marie Sasse in Brussels, where her debut was made as Alice in Robert le Diable (1883). She sang for two years at the Paris Opéra, and again in Brussels, creating Lorance (in Jocelyn), Richilde, and Salammbô (1890); in 1890 she returned to the Paris Opéra, where she sang Sieglinde (1893) and Desdemona (1894) in the first performances of Die Walkiire and Otello in France; in 1898 she sang Fidelio at the Opéra-Comique. From 1900 she appeared almost exclusively on the concert stage. In 1902 she was appointed a prof, of singing at the Paris Cons.
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