Cécile Duret-Saint-Aubin

She took lessons for three years from the composer Angelo Tarchi[1] and enters the Conservatoire de Paris to perfect his skills in the class of Pierre-Jean Garat[2] She left to debut at the Opéra Comique 24 May 1804[3] in Le Concert interrompu, by Berton, where she gets a success.

She plays with her mother in Michel-Ange, by Nicolas Isouard, then shows herself in Montano et Stéphanie, by Berton.

After four or five months of stay at the Opéra-Comique, she suddenly leaves this theater[4][3] only to return after an absence of about four years.

[5] On 4 and 7 April 1808, she played Montano and Stéphanie, on 9 April Le Concert interrompu, and continued with a series of performances of these two works, after which she created the role of Florina in Nicolo's Cimarosa, then took on the role of Zémire in Zémire et Azor.

[8] Duret-Saint-Aubin died in the 9th arrondissement of Paris aged 77, and was buried at the Père Lachaise Cemetery.

Madame Duret Saint-Aubin
Grave of Herbez Saint-Aubin at Père Lachaise Cemetery