Marguerite Olagnier
Marguerite Olagnier (née Joly) (1844 – 12 September 1906) was a French vocalist, composer and poet[1] who began her musical life singing at the Théâtre des Variétées in Paris.
Career
[edit]While traveling in Egypt with her husband Eugène Olagnier, it is believed that she wrote both words and music of an "exotic opera" in four acts, Le Saïs,[1] which "aimed at the fantasies and desires of women."[2] It was staged at the Théâtre de la Renaissance in Paris on 18 December 1881 and was later performed by Victor Capoul, an Opéra-Comique tenor.[2]
Later in life she directed her own company, the Théâtre de l'Oratorio, in weekly performances of 18th- and 19th-century oratorios. Olagnier also composed a number of songs and two more operas, Le Persan and Lilipa, which were never performed. Her only known novel was never finished.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Middlemiss, Lucie (2001). "Olagnier [née Joly], Marguerite : Oxford Music Online - oi". oxfordindex.oup.com. doi:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.48614. Retrieved 17 November 2019.
- ^ a b Henson, Karen (1 October 1999). "Victor Capoul, Marguerite Olagnier's "Le Saïs", and the Arousing of Female Desire". Journal of the American Musicological Society. 52 (3): 419–463. doi:10.2307/831790. ISSN 0003-0139. JSTOR 831790.
- ^ Fuller-Maitland, John Alexander; Grove, Sir George; Pratt, Waldo Selden (1922). Grove's dictionary of music and musicians: Volume 1.
External links
[edit]- Le Sais digitized online by GoogleBooks
- Henson, Karen: "Victor Capoul, Marguerite Olagnier's Le Sais, and the Arousing of Female Desire", in Journal of the American Musicological Society, vol. 52, no. 3 (October 1999), pp. 419–463.
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