Laure Cinti-Damoreau

[1] After complementary studies with composer Gioachino Rossini, she sang in the Paris premiere of Elisabetta, regina d'Inghilterra and created the role of Countess Folleville in Il viaggio a Reims.

She made her debut at the Paris Opera in 1825 in a benefit performance of Louis-Sébastien Lebrun's Le Rossignol,[2] and was engaged the following year as a member of the theatre's company.

In 1836, when she felt that the rising star of Cornelie Falcon might undermine her leading position at the Opéra, she moved to the Opéra-Comique where she appeared in new operas by Auber (L'Ambassadrice and Le Domino noir).

[1] She left the Opéra-Comique in 1841 when Auber broke his promise to entrust her with the leading role in his new opera Les Diamants de la couronne, giving it instead to Anna Thillon, for whom he had a passion.

These notebooks are currently kept at the Lilly Library (Indiana University) and are a major primary source for the study of bel-canto performance practice and Rossini scholarship.