French operatic soprano
Madame Lemonnier, 1820
Thérèse Louise Antoinette Regnault , known under the name Antoinette Lemonnier , (23 August 1787 – 4 April 1866) was a French opera singer, member of the
Opéra-Comique .
Life
Born in
Brest ,
[1] Regnault is the daughter of Jacques Louis Regnault, actor, master writer, and Geneviève Elisabeth Marchand.
[2]
Her singing teacher was Roland,
baryton-martin of the Théâtre des Arts de Rouen. She made her debut, at the age of sixteen, at the first theatre of Rouen, in le Prisonnier and Maison à vendre , and stayed four years in that city. An order from the superintendent of the theatres made her come to Paris to debut at the Opéra-Comique. She made her debut on 16 December 1808, in
Le jugement de Midas and Isabelle et Gertrude .
[3] Elle continue dans La Belle Arsène , La Colonie , Le Diable à Quatre , Sylvain , Une folie , La Fausse Magie , Montano et Stéphanie, Les Maris Garçons , Maison à vendre , L'Amour filiale , Les Visitandines , Le Calife de Bagdad and Euphrosine et Coradin .
[4]
Her rivalry with
Cécile Duret-Saint-Aubin is due to the fact that
Boieldieu wrote mostly for her and
Nicolas Isouard mostly for Mme Duret.
[5]
[6]
She had a son with Boieldieu, Adrien Louis Victor Boïeldieu (1815–1883), a composer.
[7]
In 1817, she married Augustin Lemonnier, a tenor at the Opéra-Comique.
[5]
[8]
In 1823, she performed at
La Monnaie .
[9]
She wants to leave th Opéra-Comique,
[10] broke up for the first time in 1829
[11] and retired in 1831.
[12] Her
benefit performance took place in 1832,
salle Ventadour .
[13]
Lemonnier died in
Saint-Sever-Calvados aged 78.
Creations
At the Opéra-Comique
1810 :
Cendrillon ,
Opéra féerie in 3 acts by
Nicolas Isouard ,
libretto by
Charles-Guillaume Étienne , 22 February, as Tisbé.
[14]
1811: Le Charme de la voix , 24 January, as Lisette.
1811: L'enfant prodigue by
Pierre Gaveaux ; 23 November, as Jephtèle.
[15]
1811: La jeune femme en colère by Boieldieu, as Rose de Vomar.
[16]
[17]
1812:
Jean de Paris (Boieldieu) , two acts
opéra comique by Boieldieu after a libretto by
Claude Godard d'Aucourt de Saint-Just , 4 April, as the Princess of Navarre.
1813: Le Nouveau Seigneur de village , 29 June, as Babet.
[18]
1813: Valentin ou le Paysan romanesque by
Henri-Montan Berton ; 3 September, as Marie.
[19]
1814: Les Héritiers Michau by
Nicolas-Charles Bochsa ; 30 April, as Suzette.
[20]
1815: Les Noces de Gamache, opéra comique de Bochsa, as Quitterie, 16 September.
[21]
1815: La Sourde-muette by
Blangini ,
[22] 26 July.
1816: La Fête du village voisin by Boieldieu, opéra comique in three acts, libretto by
Sewrin , as Madame de Ligneul.
[23]
1816: Charles de France ou Amour et gloire , opéra-comique by Boieldieu and Hérold, part of Marguerite de Sicile.
[24]
[25]
1817: La clochette ou le diable page by
Ferdinand Hérold , part of Palmire.
[26]
1818: La Fenêtre secrète by
Désiré-Alexandre Batton , 17 November, as Mme de Florville
1819: Les Rivaux de village ou La Cruche cassée , 24 December, as Rose.
[27]
[28]
1820:
Les voitures versées by Boieldieu, 29 April, as Madame Melval.
[29]
1821: Jeanne d’Arc ou la Délivrance d’Orléans by
Michele Enrico Carafa , 10 March
1823: Leicester ou le Château de Kenilworth , part of Elisabeth, 25 January.
[30]
[31]
1826: Le timide ou Le Nouveau Séducteur , by
Esprit Auber , 30 May, part of travestite Valmont.
[32]
1827: Les Petits appartements by
Henri-Montan Berton ; 9 July, as La Baronne.
[33]
1829: La Fiancée by Esprit Auber, 10 January, as Mrs Charlotte
1830: Danilowa , 23 April.
[34]
[35] as Sélomir.
[36]
1830: Joséphine ou le Retour de Wagram by
Adolphe Adam , 2 December, as Joséphine.
[37]
[38]
[39]
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