Edmée Favart
Edmée Favart (1879 – 29 October 1941) was a French soprano who had a varied and major career in opera and opéra comique and left many recordings of songs from roles she performed on stage. Life and career Favart was born in Paris, the daughter of the baritone Edmond Favart and Zelie Weil, and appeared on stage with her father as a child in Algiers. She sang the Duchess in a 1904 revival of ''Le petit duc'' at the Théâtre des Variétés in Paris. In 1907 she joined the company of the Théâtre des Nouveautés in Brussels. By 1912, she had returned to Paris, and appeared at the Théâtre de la Gaîté (rue Papin), Gaîté in ''La fille de Madame Angot'' and ''La fille du tambour-major''.Gänzl, K. ''The Encyclopedia of the Musical Theatre.'' Oxford: Blackwell, 1994. Favart made her debut at the Opéra-Comique on 20 June 1915 in ''Mignon'' (later singing the title role in the 1,500th performance of the opera at the theatre on 25 May 1919). She went on to sing Delphine (''Cos ...
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