Rose Caron

as Iphigénie in " Iphigénie en Tauride " by Gluck

ROSE CARON
(Rose Lucile MEUNIER)
1857 -1930
French Soprano

Studied at the Paris Conservatoire, but was not taken on at the Paris Opera; her husband, an accompanist, encouraged her to take lessons from Marie Sasse who helped her to get engagements at the opera in Brussels (having made her concert debut in 1880)

First operatic appearance in Brussels was as Alice in Meyerbeer's" Robert le Diable", followed by Salomé in Massenet's Hérodiade and Marguerite in Gounod's Faust; noticed by Ernest Reyer, he chose her to create the role of Brunehild in Sigurd in 1884 (and the Paris premiere in 1885). The title roles in Benjamin Godard's Jocelyn (1888) and Reyer's Salammbo (1890) and were also created by Caron in Brussels .In 1885 she began singing at the Paris Opera, Also other roles "LOHENGRIN "(Elsa), "SALAMMBÔ" Salammbô), "Die WALKÜRE" (Sieglinde), "DJELMA "(Djelma), "HELLE " (Helle) and OTHELLO (Desdemona), LA JUIVE (Rachel), LE CID (Chimène), LES HUGUENOTS (Valentine), HENRY VIII (Catherine), FAUST (Marguerite), LE FREISCHÜTZ (Agathe), in 1895 in TANNHÄUSER (Elisabeth), in 1896 in DON JUAN (Doña Anna) and the APOTHEOSIS of BEETHOVEN in 1886 in 1909 Fourth Symphony).