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| | Angelici Martha | | soprano |   
| After studying in Brussels with Alfred Mahy, in 1933 she began singing for the Belgian, Dutch and Luxemburg radio. She gave her first public concert in 1934 in the Kurzaal of Ostende Belgium. Her first stage performance was at the Opera of Marseille as Mimi in La Bohème. In 1936 she performed in the Concerts Pasdeloup in Paris Chants de Cyrnos by Henri Tomasi. In 1938 she made her debut on the stage of the Opéra-Comique Paris in a small role in Charpentier's Louise. She had a long and successful career with this opera company and, beginning in 1953, at the Grand Opéra of Paris, where her debut role was Micaela in Carmen. In Paris she was heard in roles like Leila in Bizet's Pêcheurs de perles, Mimi in La Bohème, Nedda in I Pagliacci and Pamina in Zauberflöte. She also performed at the Opéra-Comique in the premieres of the operas Comme ils s'aiment by Lavagne (1941) and Delannoy's Ginevra (1942). She appeard as a guest at the Scala in Milan (Micaela in Carmen under von Karajan), in Monte Carlo, at the Monnaie in Brussels and in Rio de Janeiro (1939 in a tour with the company of the Opéra-Comique). In 1954 she sang in Mulhouse in the premiere of H. Tomasi's L' Atlantide. She was loved as a concert singer and she liked to interpret baroque music. She was famous for her performance of Corsican songs. Married to the Director of the Opéra-Comique, Francois Agostini. Recordings: Even before the second World War she recorded in the "Anthologie sonore;" later she made many recordings for Pathé, Lumen, Columbia (Carmen, Pêcheurs de perles, Strawinsky's Renard), Forlane (H. Tomasi's Don Juan de Mañara) and HMV (Faust). |
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