Mady Mesplé

Mady Mesplé Soprano Colorature, was born with Toulouse on March 7th 1931.

His/her parents had met in a Chorale. Its Mère made come a Professor in residence to teach him the Musique. To seven years and half, it enters to the Conservatoire of Toulouse with an exemption.

It follows then the courses of Mrs Going for the Piano and Mrs Cayla for the Solfège. Thereafter she works with Mrs Malraux (wife of André Malraux).

She enters later the class of Mrs White-Daurat (the wife of Didier Daurat, historical Aviateur) as she wished it. For the Musical theory, it is the pupil of Mrs Pauly. She keeps for these the last two professors an admiration without terminals. She enters in class of composition.

Having obtained its First Price of Piano, it engages in a career of accompanying pianist artists of variety S. It is also pianist in a Orchestre of Dancing. To 18 years, it turns over to the Academy of Toulouse, in the class of song of Mrs Izar-Lasson who was the woman of the Ténor Louis Izar, director of the Théâtre of the Capitole of Toulouse. She also studied the Chant in Paris with Janine Micheau.

After its First Price of song, Mister and Mrs Izar (the latter was Belgian) take it along to Liege for a hearing. It is committed for the following year and begins with Liege in Lakmé in 1953. It is in Liege that she sang for the first time the majority of the roles of sound Répertoire, in particular the Rosine of the Barbier of Seville, Gilda of Rigoletto, while occurring with the Currency of Brussels. She also sings in Lyon: Olympia of the Tales of Hoffmann,

Starting from 1956, with the Opera of Paris where she sings Sœur Constancy of the Dialog of the Carmelite nuns (1958, 1960); one also sees it in Rigoletto and the Indies Galantes. It takes the continuation of Joan Sutherland in Lucia di Lammermoor.

She sang with the Comic Opéra: Lakmé (1960), the Barber of Seville, tales of Hoffman, creation of " Princess Pauline " of Henri Tomasi, Last Savage of Menotti (1963), taken again Weddings of Sleeve-board (decorations of Peynet).

In addition it opens the series of the recitals of melody S in Opéra of Paris (1971)

With the Opera of Paris, she will still sing Olympia of the Contes of Hoffmann in the setting in scene of Patrice Chéreau (1975)

She also occurs with the Festival of Aix-en-Provence (Zémire and Azor of Grétry) (1956).

At the same time, it begins an international career and begins with Miami in Lakmé. Then come Madrid (Spain), Lisbon, Oporto (Portugal), Barcelona (Catalogne), London (England), Edinburgh (Scotland), Amsterdam (Netherlands), Vienna (Austria), Munich (Germany), Montreal (Canada), Seattle, Chicago, Dallas, Met of New York, 1972 (the United States), Buenos Aires ( Argentinian), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Moscow (1972 with the Bolchoï: Rosine), Novosibirsk (Russia), Odessa (Ukraine), Talin (Arménie), Tokyo (Japan), Belgrade (Serbia), Poznan (Poland), etc

It was illustrated as well in the roles of the French repertory (Lakmé, Philine, Olympia, Ophélie), as Italian (Lucia, Gilda, Norina, Rosina, Amina) and German (the queen of the Night of the Magic Flute, Zerbinetta of ARIANE in Naxos with the Festival of Aix-en-Provence in 1966)

It approaches the modern music with the creation of the N°2 quartet written for it by Betsy Jolas; of the same Charles Chaynes will write his to him Four Poems of Sappho. She sings Patrice Mestral, Yves Prin and one owes him the Création in French language (1965) of the Elégie for young lovers ( Elegie für junge Liebende ) of Hans Werner Henze. Pierre Boulez on several occasions requires of him to sing the Jacob's ladder of Schönberg and the Child and the magic spells of Ravel, in particular in London.

She sang under the direction of Georges Prêtre, Pierre Boulez, Berislav Klobucar, Bernard Haitink, Pierre Dervaux. She also worked under the scenic direction of Patrice Chéreau, Franco Zeffirelli.

Later, it begins a teaching career like Professor with the Academy of Nice, the summer. About at the same time, it gives up the scene (the opera) to be devoted to the recitals and the concerts. What carries out it New York, Beijing, Shanghai, Toronto, Rome, etc

It was Professor with the National Academy of Area of Lyon, Bordeaux and Saint-Maur-of-Ditches and organized many Master-class are (in particular with the Abbaye of Sylvanès) and with CNIPAL.

For several years, it has directed a master-class to Navarrenx in the Yrénées-Atlantiques, and it is the President of honor of the Association of the Lyric Stones, directed by François Ithurbide, whose vocation is to promote the lyric art in Béarn. This association already produced several operettas, from which the last goes back " to it; The Masqué" love; of Andre Messager. The Chorus of the Lyriquescomposé Stones of almost 80 chorus-singers already acquired a solid reputation regional for its interprêtations of choruses of opera and sacred music.

It belongs to many jurys in France and on the international plan (Washington, Toronto, Geneva, Italy, etc).

In parallel, its many passages to the Television, to defend the lyric song in particular under the the aegis of Jacques Martin, ensure his popularity near the general public. It is one of the Cantatrice S Frenchwomen which the most recorded (EMI) as well the opera, the Opérette or the melody that the music of church or the modern music.

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Official site of Mady Mesplé

Its Contribution to the theory of the art of the song

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