Edmée Favart

Edmée Favart (1879[1] – 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.

She sang the Duchess in a 1904 revival of Le petit duc at the Théâtre des Variétés in Paris.

[2] 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).

[3] She also sang in the premieres of Monsieur Dumollet (1922), Pépète (1925), Quand on est trois (1925), Mannequins (1925), Le Diable à Paris (1927), Une nuit au Louvre (1928), Boulard et ses filles (1929) and Sidonie Panache (1930).

Two more Messager operettas appear on her discography ; Coups de roulis (Polydor, 1932), and Passionément (Pathé 1932).