Marie Battu

She studied singing with Gilbert Duprez and made her debut at the Théâtre des Italiens in Paris in 1860, as Amina in Vincenzo Bellini's La sonnambula.

She appeared in operas in London, Paris and Baden-Baden, in works by Verdi, Donizetti, Rossini and Meyerbeer.

Having made her debut in December 1864 at the Paris Opéra in a revival of Rossini's Mosè in Egitto, the following year Marie Battu created the role of Inès in Meyerbeer's last and posthumous opera L'Africaine at the same house.

[2][self-published source] She later appeared at the Opéra as Mathilde in Guillaume Tell, the Queen in Les Huguenots, and Zerline in Don Giovanni.

[3] She appeared once at the Opéra-Comique, as the countess in The Marriage of Figaro in February 1872, and retired from the stage the year after.