Thévenet is a very great artist, a wonderfully clever creator of the characters she represents", commented one American publication in 1905.

[1] In 1913 she sang the part of Euryclea in the premiere of Gabriel Fauré's Pénélope in Paris, with Lucienne Bréval in the title role.

[3] She was also in the original cast of the Gustave Charpentier opera Julien, in 1913.

[4][5] Other roles Thévenet sang included Musette in Leoncavallo's La bohéme (1899),[6] Leoncavallo's Zaza (1900),[7] Caroline in Die Fledermaus (1904), La Chouanne (1907),[8] the Nurse in Paul Dukas's Ariane et Barbe-bleue (1910), and Massenet's Thérèse (1913).

[10] Media related to Cécile Thévenet at Wikimedia Commons