Marie Cico

At the Bouffes-Parisiens she created the roles of Minerve in Orphée aux enfers (1858), Lahire and Clé-de-Sol in Geneviève de Brabant (1859) and Calisto in Daphnis et Chloé (1860).

After winning prizes at the Paris Conservatoire, she made her debut at the Opéra-Comique on 30 September 1861 in Les mousquetaires de la reine.

[1] Cico then created the title role in Lalla-Roukh by Félicien David (1862), Le voyage en Chine (1865) by François Bazin, Robinson Crusoé (1867), La pénitent (1868) and Vert-Vert (1869).

In 1874 Cico was engaged at the Théâtre de la Gaîté in preparation for a revival of Orphée aux enfers.

[2] She made her debut in Fra Diavolo (Pamela) on 10 March 1870, and on 24 February 1872 took part as Suzanne in the Opéra-Comique premiere of The Marriage of Figaro.