Germaine Martinelli
Germaine Martinelli, née Germaine Jeanne Jobert, (30 September 1887 in the 9th arrondissement of Paris[1] – 8 April 1964 at her home in the 1st arrondissement of Paris),[2] was a 20th-century French opera singer.
Biography[]
Daughter of Doctor Jobert, settled in Montmartre, doctor of the Moulin-Rouge, she studied literature without going through the Conservatory and had as teachers the baritone Jean Lassalle, creator of Saint-Saens's Henry VIII and Massenet's Le roi de Lahore and Albert Petit, adherent to the García method (father of la Malibran).
She began as a mezzo-soprano before becoming dramatic soprano. In 1908, she married Charles Martinet, singer and actor under the name of , creator of Massenet's Panurge and who performed Boubouroche by Courteline, with whom she had a son, the actor Jean Martinelli (1909–1983).
She withdrew from the stage in 1941 and became a teacher at the Fontainebleau Schools along Nadia Boulanger.[3]
A special prize from the Académie nationale du disque lyrique, dedicated to melody, bears her name.[4]
She had been made chevalier of the Légion d'honneur in 1938.
Roles[]
Her greatest role remains Marguerite in Berlioz's La damnation de Faust (she only sang in French both the German lieder by Schubert, Die schöne Müllerin and Schumann's Frauen-Liebe und Leben).
She has left many recordings.[5]
After she died in Paris, she was buried at the Père Lachaise Cemetery (16th division).[6]
Publication[]
- L'Art du chant, Durassié, 1929
References[]
- ^ Archives de Paris 9e, acte de naissance No 1691, year 1887 (page 22/31) (née Tabaran et reconnue Jobert en 1891) (avec mention marginale de décès)
- ^ Archives de Paris 1er, acte de décès No 128, year 1964 (page 16/31)
- ^ Germaine Martinelli on artlyrique.fr
- ^ Alain Pâris, Le Nouveau Dictionnaire des interprètes, Robert Laffont, 2004; 2015
- ^ Germaine Martinelli on Polydor Recordings
- ^ Germaine Martinelli on Amis et passionnés du Père Lachaise
External links[]
- Germaine Martinelli on Gramophone.co.uk
- Wagner: Lohengrin: Déjà se perd leur voix (Germaine Martinelli, Georges Thill) on YouTube
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