Laure Cinti-Damoreau
Laure Cinti-Damoreau (6 February 1801 – 25 February 1863) was a French
Life and career
Born Laure-Cinthie Montalant in Paris, she studied in Paris with
She made her debut at the
She taught at the Paris Conservatory from 1833 until 1856, and published a "Méthode de chant" in 1849, still available today as "Classic Bel Canto Technique". She also produced a notable series of "notebooks" where she wrote down in music notation her own embellishments to key sections of many roles and arias she performed. These notebooks are currently kept at the Lilly Library (Indiana University) and are a major primary source for the study of bel-canto performance practice and Rossini scholarship.
She was married to tenor Vincent-Charles Damoreau (1793–1863) from 1828 until 1834, with whom she had a daughter, Maria Cinti-Damoreau, also a soprano, who married the librarian and composer Jean-Baptiste Weckerlin.
She died in Chantilly.
Bibliography
- Giorgio Appolonia: Le voci di Rossini (Torino: EDA, 1992), pp. 300–309.
- Roland Mancini and Jean-Jacques Rouveroux (orig. H. Rosenthal and J. Warrack, French edition): Guide de l'opéra (Paris: Fayard, 1995); ISBN 2-213-59567-4
- Philip Robinson: "Cinti-Damoreau [née Montalant], Laure (Cinthie)", in Laura Macy (ed.): The Grove Book of Opera Singers (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008), pp. 88–89.
- Lilly Library Manuscript Collections
References
- ^ a b c Robinson.
- ^ Theatre programme and Macedoine, "La Lorgnette", II, no. 598, 8 October 1825, pp. 1 and 4 (accessible online at Gallica – B.N.F.). Le Rossignol was to remain in the repertoire of the Opera "largely as a showpiece for soprano Laure Cinti-Damoreau" (Benjamin Walton: Rossini in Restoration Paris: The Sound of Modern Life (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2008), p. 238, note 60).
- ^ Jean Gourret: Histoire de l'opéra-comique (Paris: Publications universitaires, 1978), pp. 111 and 116.
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