Marie-Julie Halligner

[4] Halligner entered the Paris Conservatory in 1806 to study solfeggio;[2] she was a pupil of Charles-Henri Plantade and Pierre-Jean Garat.

[5] She performed in the world premieres of numerous opéras comiques, including Lady Pamela in Auber's Fra Diavolo in 1830[1] and Ritta in Hérold's Zampa in 1831.

[6] She played the role of Gertrude in Le maître de chapelle, by Ferdinando Paer, 1821; Madame Barneck in L'ambassadrice, by Daniel Auber, 1836; and the Marquise of Berkenfield in La fille du régiment by Gaetano Donizetti, 1840.

[7] Halligner was the wife of cellist and professor of the Paris Conservatory, Frédéric Boulanger, whom she had met during her studies there.

Her son, Ernest Boulanger, winner of the Grand Prix de Rome in 1835,[9] was a composer of comic operas; her daughter-in-law, Princess Raissa Mychetsky, descended from St. Mikahil Tchernigovsky.