Louise Grandjean

Grandjean studied at the Conservatoire de Paris before making her professional opera debut in 1893 at the Opéra Comique as Isabella in Le Pré aux clercs.

She sang numerus roles at that opera house over the next nine years, including Alice Ford in France's first production of Verdi's Falstaff in 1894.

She sang numerous roles with the national opera until 1911, including the world premieres of Xavier Leroux's Astarté (1901), Jules Massenet's Ariane (1906), and Fernand Le Borne's La Catalane (1907).

[1] In addition to her work in Paris, Grandjean also appeared in productions at the Opéra de Monte-Carlo, the Berlin State Opera, and the Bayreuth Festival between 1902 and 1911.

This was followed by numerous appearances at the Berlin State Opera in roles such as Donna Anna in the Don Giovanni, Valentine in Les Huguenots, Berthe in Le prophète, the Chimène in Le Cid, Salomé in Hérodiade, the title role in Aida, Desdemona in Otello, Elizabeth in Tannhäuser, Elsa in Lohengrin, Eva in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, and Isolde in Tristan und Isolde.