Paola Marie by Mora

Paola Marie As Carmen 'Carmen" Bizet

PAOLA MARIE (1847-1919); French mezzo-soprano.
Known for her performance as Clairette Angot in Charles Lecocq’s “La fille de
Madam Angot”, a rôle she created at the Paris-première in 1873 at the Théâtre des Folies-Dramatiques. in the rôle of Clairette.Known for her interpretations of Carmen and Mignon, rôles that had been created by her sister, the famous mezzo-soprano Célèstine Galli-Marié (1840-1905).
In 1877 she created the rôle of Lazuli in Chabrier’s “L’ Étoile” at the Bouffes-Parisiens