Renée Gilly

She was a long-time principal member of the Opéra-Comique, where she performed leading roles such as Massenet's Charlotte, Mascagni's Santuzza, and Bizet's Carmen.

[1] Among her roles there were Bizet's Carmen, Santuzza in Mascagni's Cavalleria rusticana, Toinette in Xavier Leroux's Le Chemineau, Dulcinée in Massenet's Don Quichotte, Jacqueline in Gounod's Le médecin malgré lui, the mother in Charpentier's Louise, the title role in Mignon by Ambroise Thomas, Geneviève in Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande, Panttasilée in Xavier Leroux's La reine Fiammette, Rosette in Massenet's Manon, Margared in Lalo's Le roi d'Ys, the title role in Puccini's Tosca, Salud in de Falla's La vida breve, and Poppée in a French-language version of Monteverdi's L'incoronazione di Poppea.

[3] She participated in six world premieres, among them Magdeleine in Antoine Mariotte's Gargantua, Ninon in Hector Fraggi's (1882–1944) A quoi rêvent les jeunes filles (1935), and the title role in Darius Milhaud's Esther de Carpentras.

As part of that company she also sang Ortrud in Wagner's Lohengrin, Brünhilde in Die Walküre, Marguerite in La damnation de Faust by Berlioz, Margared in Le Roi d'Ys and Marina in Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov.

[1] She appeared as a guest in Belgium, at the Royal Opera House in London, and in the Netherlands, Hungary, Monte Carlo, North Africa, Romania, and Switzerland.