Alexandrine-Caroline Branchu
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Thimoléone-Rose-Caroline Chevalier Lavit,Paris Opéra.
La Vestale by Gaspare Spontini
, 1807Branchu was one of the first students at the
Paris Conservatoire after it opened in 1795, and studied singing under Pierre Garat
.
Although Branchu frequently performed works by
Napoleon
.
Branchu died in the Parisian suburb of Passy and was buried in the Père Lachaise Cemetery.
References
- Notes
- ^ Cahiers de l'Académie d'Histoire (1-11), Paris, 1970, p. 51. Her full name is also sometimes given as Marie-Rose-Thimoléone (Caroline) Chevalier de Lavit.
- ISBN 978-2850231261).
- Sources
- Berlioz À Travers Chants (1862) Michel Lévy Publishers
- Richard Somerset-Ward (2004). Angels and Monsters: Male and Female Sopranos in the Story of Opera, 1600-1900. Yale University Press. pp. 163–165. ISBN 0-300-09968-1.
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