Mary Garden & Adolphe Marechal

As Orlanda & Danielo in "La Riene Flamette" by Leroux CREATORS opera Comique Paris 12/12/1903

Mary Garden
(20 February 1874 – 3 January 1967)
Scottish-American Soprano

.Adolphe (Alphonse) Maréchal
(26 September 1867 – 1 February 1935)
Belgian Tenor

Studied at the Liege Conservatoire, Debut at Dijon in 1891 and toured the French provinces, singing in Rheims, Nice, Bordeaux, and especially at the Théâtre du Grand Cercle in Aix-les-Bains.He was engaged by the Opera Comique in 1895, making his debut as Don José in "Carmen" by Bizet on 7 October 1895. His repertoire at the Opéra-Comique covered (Turrido) "Cavalleria Rusticana", (Ottavio) "Don Juan", (Sylvain) "Les dragons de Villars", (Gérald) "Lakme", Manon (des Grieux) "Manon", (Vincent) "Mireille" , (Araquil) "La Navarraise", (Un faucheur) "Le patdon de Ploermel", (Nadir) "Les pecheurs de perles", (Mergy) "Le Pre-aux clercs" and (Mylio) "Le roi d'Ys". He also sang in several premieres, notably " Louise" in 1900 (Julien) and "Grideldis" in 1901 (Alain), "La reine Flamette" (Danielo) as well as enjoying a success in the Paris premiere of " La Boheme" (Rodolphe) At the Opera de Monte Carlo he created the role of Jean in "Le jongleur de Notre Dame" in 1902, and made his debut at Covent Garden the same year as Don José, also appearing in Faust, Manon and the première of The Princess Osra by Herbert Bunning.He retired back to Belgium in 1907