Cécile Thévenet
{{short description|Belgian opera singer}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Cécile Thévenet
| image = CecileThevenet1905a.jpg
| alt = A young white woman, wearing a large hat with a white plume.
| caption = Cécile Thévenet, as Charlotte in Werther, from a 1905 publication.
| birth_name =
| birth_date = 22 November 1872
| birth_place = Bruges
| death_date = 15 March 1956
| death_place = Meudon
| nationality = Belgian
| other_names = Cécilie Thévenet
| occupation = opera singer
| years_active =
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Cécile Thévenet (1872-1956) was a Belgian opera singer.
Early life
File:CecileThevenet1905b.jpg, from a 1905 publication.]]
Cécile Thévenet was born in Bruges, the daughter of Alphonse Thévenet and Anne Van Vyve. Her father was a music teacher and baritone singer. She was raised and educated in Brussels.{{Cite journal|date=April 15, 1905|title=An Artist of Talent and Beauty|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dXK8cIBCOjkC&dq=C%C3%A9cile%20Th%C3%A9venet&pg=RA14-PA16|journal=Musical Courier|volume=50|pages=16}} Her brothers {{ill|Pierre Thévenet (painter)|fr|Pierre Thévenet|lt=Pierre}} (1870-1937) and Louis (1874-1930) became painters.{{Cite web|url=https://www.museumdd.be/en/louis-thevenet/|title=Louis Thévenet|website=Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens|access-date=2019-08-18}}
Career
Cécile Thévenet sang with the Opéra-Comique in Paris. "Alike as a singer and an actress Mlle. Thévenet is a very great artist, a wonderfully clever creator of the characters she represents", commented one American publication in 1905. In 1913 she sang the part of Euryclea in the premiere of Gabriel Fauré's Pénélope in Paris, with Lucienne Bréval in the title role.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=v5khoEerQc0C&dq=C%C3%A9cile%20Th%C3%A9venet&pg=PA1015|title=Programme|last=Orchestra|first=Boston Symphony|date=1918|publisher=The Orchestra|language=en}} She was also in the original cast of the Gustave Charpentier opera Julien, in 1913. She was known for her performances of Carmen.{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/musicofspain00vanvuoft|title=The music of Spain|last=Van Vechten|first=Carl|date=1918|publisher=New York A.A. Knopf|others=Music - University of Toronto|pages=[https://archive.org/details/musicofspain00vanvuoft/page/130 130]}}{{Cite news|url=https://newspaperarchive.com/entertainment-clipping-nov-23-1906-1316527/|title=Notes from Home and Abroad|date=November 23, 1906|work=Corona Independent|access-date=August 17, 2019|page=7|via=Newspaper Archive}}
Other roles Thévenet sang included Musette in Leoncavallo's La bohéme (1899),{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/35013421/cecile_thevenet_1899/|title=The Drama in Paris|date=October 14, 1899|work=The Era|access-date=August 17, 2019|page=9|via=Newspapers.com}} Leoncavallo's Zaza (1900),{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/35012513/music_notes_1900/|title=Music Notes|date=March 4, 1900|work=Chicago Tribune|access-date=August 17, 2019|page=45|via=Newspapers.com}} Caroline in Die Fledermaus (1904), La Chouanne (1907),{{Cite journal|date=January 1, 1908|title=Music in Paris|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2ixMAQAAMAAJ&dq=Cecile%20Thevenet%20%22married%22&pg=PA11|journal=Musical Courier|volume=56|pages=11}} the Nurse in Paul Dukas's Ariane et Barbe-bleue (1910), and Massenet's Thérèse (1913).{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/35012272/cecile_thevenet_1913/|title=Untitled news item|date=October 19, 1913|work=St. Louis Post-Dispatch|access-date=August 17, 2019|page=10|via=Newspapers.com}}
Personal life
References
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External links
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- [https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/french-opera-singer-cecile-thevenet-as-musette-in-opera-la-news-photo/89867300 A photograph of Cécile Thévenet as Musette] in La boheme (1900), at Getty Images.
- [https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/theatre-des-varietes-mlle-c-thevenet-role-de-caroline-la-news-photo/1129819051 A photograph of Thévenet as Caroline] in Die fledermaus (1904), at Getty Images.
- [https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/french-opera-singer-cecile-thevenet-as-catherine-in-opera-news-photo/89859294 A photograph of Thévenet as Catherine] in Le chemineau (1907), at Getty Images.
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Category:Belgian opera singers