Auguste Alphonse Edmond Meillet by Franck

AUGUSTE ALPHONSE EDMOND MEILLET
( 07 April 1828-.31 August 1871).
French Baritone

Married in Paris on 04 December 1851 opera singer Marie Stéphanie Meyer; Son Lucien Jean Henri Auguste Edmond Meillet parents (Paris, December 09, 1855)-Studied at Conservatoire, Debut at the Opera in 1850 in the Soul in Trouble, but only passed through it, and after making a short appearance in 1852 at the Opéra-National (which was to become the Lyric Theater ), Then at the Opéra-Comique, he entered the Lyric Theater the following year,nt creations which gave him authority over the public and secured his reputation. The main roles he created or played are: Good evening , neighbor! ; The doctor in spite of himself ; Jaguarita ; Richard the Lionheart ; My Aunt Aurora ; The Marriage of Figaro ; The Val d'Andorra , etc. Around 1861 or 1862, however, Meillet left Paris and went to work in various large provincial and foreign cities, notably in Brussels. Then he reappeared at the Lyric Theater, and was finally engaged at the Opéra-Comique, where he charmingly created the role of Doctor Mirouet in the Shadow of Flotow.