Caroline Duprez

À member of the troupe of the Opéra-Comique from 1852 to 1857, she premiered numerous roles in the opéras-comiques composed at that time by Auber, Meyerbeer, Massé and Halévy.

She then joined the Comédie Italienne in Paris, sang in London in 1851 and then in Brussels in 1851-1852.

She returned to Paris in 1852 to premiere the main role of her father's work, Joanita,(a revision of his earlier L'abime de la maladetta), at the Théâtre-Lyrique For 5 years she was with the Opéra-Comique where she premiered the roles of Angela in Daniel-François-Esprit Auber's Marco Sparda (1852), Catherine in Meyerbeer's L'Étoile du nord (1854), Jenny Bell in the eponymous work by Auber (1855), Simone in Massé's Les Saisons (1855) and Halèvy's Valentine d'Aubigny (1856).

After touring the provinces for two years, she created her last role at the Opéra-Comique in 1866 in Massé's Fior d'Aliza.

Fragile in health and suffering from tuberculosis, she withdrew from the stage shortly afterwards and spent her last four years in Pau, alongside her husband, the violinist Amédée Van den Heuvel.