Amélie Faivre by Bureau

Amélie FAIVRE
(Louise Marie Amélie FAIVRE)
french mezzo-soprano
(Paris, 04 February 1837 - 75017.Paris, November 17, 1897)
Sister of Marie FAIVRE, singer.
At the Conservatoire de Paris, she obtained third runner-up in 1857 in singing and a second prize of Opéra-Comique. She had a career at the Théâtre-Lyrique, but at the same time, she created in Baden: July 15, 1858 the mill of the King of Adrien Boieldieu; 03 August 1860la Colombe (Mazet) by Charles Gounod; on July 31, 1861 Deux amours by Gevaert. August 21, 1862 Erostrate (Rhodina) by Ernest Reyer; July 27, 1863la Fille de l'orfèvre , by Edmond Membree. She sang on November 16, 1863 at the premiere la Monnaie Brussels d'Oberon ou le Cor magique (Fatima) Weber [French version of Nuitter, Beaumont and Chazot]. She created , in March 1859 in concert,la Mort de Socrate d'Edmond Hocmelle ; in February 1862 in Paris, le Valet-poète de Raoul de Lostanges Raoul ; in May 1873, at the Cercle artistique et littéraire Brussels (under the name of Ms. Mme Réty-Faivre), le Tricorne enchanté by Léon Jouret.