Rosine Bloch by Manoury

ROSINE BLOCH (Paris, 07 November 1844 -01 February 1891) French operatic mezzo-soprano
While a student of the Conservatory, she won in 1864, two seconds prizes for singing and opera, and the two firsts the following year. Committed immediately to the Opera, 1865, debut in Il Trovatore. The beauty, vigor and velvety tone of her beautiful contralto voice, that she handled with skill, earned her a warm welcome in the part by the public. She was not happy in the other roles in her repertoire, and was applauded in LE FAVOURITE and LE PROPHET. She created the Coupe du roi de Thulé, in 1880, she left the Opera. In 1870, at the Théâtre-Lyrique she sang in Charles VI. October 31, 1890, she sang Samson and Delilah (Dalila) when the first Parisian stage performance of this work at the Eden-Théâtre.