Cornélie Falcon

Cornélie Falcon, 1835

Cornélie Falcon (28 Januari 1814 – 25 Februari 1897)[n 1] adalah seorang penyanyi soprano Prancis yang bernyanyi di Opéra di Paris. Kesuksesan terbesarnya adalah menciptakan peran Valentine dalam Les Huguenots Meyerbeer. Dia memiliki "suara yang penuh dan bergema"[4] dengan timbre gelap yang khas[5] dan merupakan aktris yang luar biasa.[4] Berdasarkan peran yang ditulis untuk suaranya, rentang vokalnya berkisar dari A-flat rendah hingga D tinggi, 2,5 oktaf. Dia dan penyanyi tenor Adolphe Nourrit dianggap bertanggung jawab terutama untuk meningkatkan standar artistik di Opéra,[4] dan peran yang dia kuasai kemudian dikenal sebagai bagian "falcon soprano".[6] Dia memiliki karir yang sangat singkat, pada dasarnya berakhir sekitar lima tahun setelah debutnya, ketika pada usia 23 dia kehilangan suaranya selama penampilan Niedermeyer's Stradella.

Catatan

1. Falcon's date of birth is given as 28 January 1814 by many sources [1] Other sources give her date of birth as 28 January 1812 [2] Braud 1913,[3] quotes the minutes des actes de naissance (minutes of birth certificates) of the Préfecture du département de la Seine, which read: "Du 29 janvier de l'an dix-huit cent quatorze, à midi un quart, acte de naissance de Marie-Cornélie, de sexe féminin, née d'hier à midi, rue de Béthizy, nº10, quartier Saint-Honoré, fille de Pierre Falcon, tailleur, et de Edmée-Cornélie Mérot, son épouse." ("On 29 January of the year eighteen hundred fourteen, at noon and a quarter, birth certificate of Marie-Cornélie, of female sex, born yesterday at noon, Rue du Béthizy, no. 10, Saint-Honoré Quarter, daughter of Pierre Falcon, tailor, and of Edmée-Cornélie Mérot, his wife."). Thus, her birth occurred at noon on 28 January 1814 and was recorded on 29 January at 12:15 p.m. Braud specifically repudiates the errors of earlier publications by Larousse and Malherbes which give the year 1812.

Referensi

1. Bouvet 1927 (snippet view at Google Books); Gourret 1987, p. 33; Kuhn 1992, p. 219; Warrack and West 1992, p. 230; and Robinson and Walton 2011.
2. including Fétis 1862, p. 179; Pitou 1990, p. 449; Robinson 1992, p. 110; and Kutsch and Riemens 2003, p. 1388.
3. pp. 77-78 (footnote 2)
4. Warrack and West 1992, p. 230.
5. Robinson and Walton 2011.
6. Robinson 1992, p. 110.

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