Marie Recio

Marie Recio was born in Châtenay-Malabry to a French military father, Colonel Joseph Martin (1758-1836), battalion commander and a Spanish mother.

Peter Bloom believes that it is likely that she took singing lessons from the great Italian singer David Banderali (an academic at the Conservatoire de Paris from 1828 to 1849), being the friend of his daughter, Anne Barthe.

[3] It was potentially for Marie Recio that Berlioz began Les Nuits d'été, with Absence (1841, the fourth piece of the final collection), which she often sang[3] and that the musician orchestrated as soon as 1843.

"[4] Due to Berlioz's influence, she made her debut at the Opéra-Comique on 9 October 1841, but she only held the position for a few months.

[5] She was portrayed by actress Renée Saint-Cyr, in La Symphonie fantastique (1942), a feature film by Christian-Jaque.