Jane Margyl
{{short description|French mezzo-soprano (1874–1907)}}
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| name = Jane Margyl
| image = Jane Margyl in Samson et Dalila (cropped).jpg
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| caption = Jane Margyl as Dalila, Paris Opera, 1905{{Cite magazine|language=fr |title=Jane Margyl |magazine=Revue Illustrée|page=1 (title)|url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6233623h |date=20 October 1906 |via=Gallica |access-date=30 April 2021}}
| birth_name = Jeanne Clémence Floriet
| birth_date = {{birth date|1874|07|17|df=y}}
| birth_place = Paris, France
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1907|08|12|1874|07|17|df=yes}}
| death_place = Deauville, France
| occupation = Operatic mezzo-soprano
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Jeanne Clémence Floriet (de Margileray) called Jane Margyl (17 July 1874 – 12 August 1907) was a French mezzo-soprano. She began her career as a mime artist at the Folies Bergère starring in several productions. After voice studies, she appeared in operas from 1902 onwards. She first appeared at the Paris Opera in 1905 as Dalila in Samson et Dalila by Saint-Saëns, and took other leading roles there.
Life
Born Jeanne Clémence Floriet in Paris,{{Cite web |title=Cantatrices de l'Opera-comique |website=artlyriquefr.fr |url=https://www.artlyriquefr.fr/dicos/Opera-Comique%20Cantatrices.html |date=2021 |language=fr |access-date=15 June 2021 |archive-date=16 June 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230616200327/https://www.artlyriquefr.fr/dicos/Opera-Comique%20Cantatrices.html |url-status=dead }} Margyl made her debut as a mime artist at the Folies Bergère{{Cite book |last=Gutsche-Miller |first=Sarah|chapter=Pantomime and Other Nondanced Scenes|title=Parisian Music-Hall Ballet, 1871–1913 |publisher=Boydell & Brewer |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cVSECgAAQBAJ&pg=PA98 |date=2015 |pages=98–99 |isbn=978-1-58-046442-0}} on 10 February 1897, creating the title role in Phryné, a ballet-pantomime by Auguste Germain, with music by Louis Ganne.{{efn|Phryné had been performed in Royan in the summer of 1896 by Cléo de Mérode.}}{{Cite magazine|language=fr |title=La Semaine théatrale: Folies Bergère |pages=101–103 |first=Edmond |last=Stoullig|author-link=:fr:Edmond Stoullig|url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5454042x/f7.image.r=%22Jane%20Margyl%22?rk=21459;2 |magazine={{ill|Le Monde artiste|fr}}|date=14 February 1897|via=Gallica|access-date=30 April 2021}}{{Cite magazine|language=fr|title=Échos de théatres |pages=220–221 |first=Louis |last=Schneider|magazine=Revue Illustrée|url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6260394f/f240.image.r=%22Jane%20Margyl%22?rk=21459;2 |via=Gallica |date=15 December 1896 |access-date=30 April 2021}} Critics praised Margyl's talent as well as her beauty, and she played Phryné more than 200 times.{{Cite magazine|language=fr |title=La Semaine Theatrale |magazine=Le Monde artiste|url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5839586s/f6.item.r=%22Jane%20Margyl%22 |via=Gallica |date=29 January 1899 |page=70 |first=Edmond |last=Stoullig|author-link=:fr:Edmond Stoullig|access-date=30 April 2021}}{{Cite web |language=fr|title=Le Theatre Parisien |newspaper=Revue d'art dramatique |url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k64112844/f371.image.r=%22Jane%20Margyl%22?rk=1781124;4 |via=Gallica |date=November 1896 |page=361 |access-date=30 April 2021}} In September 1898, she took part there in L'Enlèvement des Sabines, a ballet-pantomime by Adrien Vély and Charles Dutreil, with music by Paul Marcelles, with Odette Valery, J. Litini and J. Ducastel.{{Cite news |language=fr|title=Folies Bergere |newspaper=La Revue artistique, littéraire et industrielle |url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k1176997m/f19.item.r=%22Jane%20Margyl%22.zoom |via=Gallica |date=1 November 1898 |access-date=30 April 2021}} On 25 January 1899, she also created the role of Princess Illys in La Princesse au sabbat, a ballet-pantomime by Jean Lorrain, with music by Louis Ganne, alongside Jane Thylda and Odette Valery.{{Cite magazine|language=fr |title=Propos de Coulisses|magazine=Gil Blas|url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k7525869g/f4.item.r=%22Jane%20Margyl%22.zoom |via=Gallica |date=28 January 1899 |access-date=30 April 2021}}{{Cite news |language=fr|title=Chronique Musicale |newspaper=Le Monde illustré |url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6228422p/f14.item.r=%22Jane%20Margyl%22.zoom |via=Gallica |date=5 February 1899|access-date=30 April 2021}} In Poussières de Paris, Lorrain described Margyl trying on her princess costume at the couturier Landolff.{{cite book | last=Lorrain | first=Jean | title=Poussières de Paris | publisher=Klincksieck | publication-place=Paris | year=2006 | isbn=978-2-252-03471-2 | oclc=70120621 | language=fr | page=}}
She then undertook voice studies with Jules Chevallier{{Cite magazine|language=fr|title=Opera |magazine=Gil Blas|url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k7546276d/f4.item.r=%22Jane%20Margyl%22.zoom |via=Gallica |date=1 October 1902|access-date=30 April 2021}} and followed the advice of Alexandre Luigini. She made her debut at the Opéra-Comique on 15 November 1902 as Lola in Mascagni's Cavalleria rusticana, opposite Emma Calvé as Santuzza.{{Cite magazine|language=fr |title=Jane Margyl |magazine=Le Monde artiste |url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5459135p/f6.image.r=Margyl |via=Gallica |date=18 November 1906|access-date=30 April 2021}} In December 1902, she appeared in the small role of Princess Olympe in the world premiere of Reynaldo Hahn's La Carmélite. She resumed her voice studies, and in December 1903, Alexandre Luigini called her to replace Lina Pacary in the title role of Massenet's Hérodiade at the Théâtre de la Gaîté.
File:Jane Margyl, Samson et Dalila flyer.jpg
Engaged at the Paris Opera on 22 December 1904, she first performed there on 22 September 1905 as Dalila in Samson et Dalila by Saint-Saëns and achieved great success.{{Cite magazine|language=fr|magazine=Le Monde artiste|title=Courrier de la semaine |page=621 |url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k58374647/f13.image.r=%22Jane%20Margyl%22?rk=85837;2 |via=Gallica |date=24 September 1905|access-date=30 April 2021}}{{Cite magazine|language=fr |first1=Édouard |last1=Noël|author1-link=:fr:Édouard Noël|first2=Edmond |last2=Stoullig|author2-link=:fr:Edmond Stoullig|title=22 Septembre |magazine=Les Annales du théâtre et de la musique|url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k54976p/f33.image.r=%22Jane%20Margyl%22?rk=21459;2 |via=Gallica |date=1905 |access-date=30 April 2021}} She then appeared there on 16 February 1906 as Amneris in Verdi's Aida.{{Cite magazine|language=fr|title=Jane Margyl |magazine=Revue Illustrée|url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6233623h/f9.item.r=Margyl.zoom |via=Gallica |date=20 October 1906|access-date=30 April 2021}} On 17 December 1906, she appeared as Fricka in Wagner's Die Walküre.{{Cite news |language=fr|title=Necrologie |newspaper=La Chronique des arts et de la curiosité |url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6344261n/f6.image.r=%22Jane%20Margyl%22?rk=321890;0 |via=Gallica |date=24 August 1907 |access-date=30 April 2021}}
In the meantime, on 24 April 1906, she took part in creating Le Clown, a musical novel by Victor Capoul, with music by Isaac de Camondo, alongside Geraldine Farrar, Marguerite Mérentié, Rousselière, Renaud and Delmas.{{Cite news |language=fr |title=Paris et Departments |newspaper=Le Ménestrel |url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k56158802/f7.image.r=%22Jane%20Margyl%22?rk=21459;2 |via=Gallica |date=18 March 1906|access-date=30 April 2021}}
File:Tombe Jane Margyl, Cimetière des Batignolles, Paris.jpg
She died in Deauville from appendicitis at the age of 33,{{Cite magazine|language=fr|title=Necrologie|magazine=Revue Illustrée|url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6267836w/f877.image.r=Margyl |via=Gallica |date=20 August 1907|access-date=30 April 2021}} while she was preparing for the roles of Fidès in Meyerbeer's Le prophète, Ann Boleyn in Henry VIII and Ortrud in Wagner's Lohengrin. She was buried in Paris at the Batignolles Cemetery (1st division), where a statue by François-Léon Sicard memorializes her, seated and dying, with Euterpe, the classical muse of music, hiding her lyre and her face.{{Cite news |language=fr |title=Francois Sicard: L'auteur du Saint Michel du Sacré-Coeur |newspaper=Le Mois littéraire et pittoresque |url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k61496843/f157.image.r=%22Jane%20Margyl%22?rk=1094426;0 |via=Gallica |date=January 1910|access-date=30 April 2021 |pages=149–54 |first=Jacques |last=Des Gachons}}
Family
Jane Margyl was the sister of:
- Marthe Floriet (1873–1965), a one-time eccentric comedian known as Miss Floresky.{{Cite web |title=Insouciance / France |website=biennaledisenigallia.it |url=https://biennaledisenigallia.it/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/PROGRAMME-II-BIENNALE.pdf |date=2021 |access-date=14 June 2021 |page=14 (PDF p. 12)}}
- Georgette Floriet (1881–1912), wife of Edouard Guillaumet, a publicist and son of the painter Gustave Guillaumet; known in the theatre as Georgette Sandri.{{Cite magazine|language=fr |title=Echos & Nouvelles|magazine=Gil Blas|page=1|url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k7526974f/f1.item.r=%22Jane%20Margyl%22.zoom |via=Gallica |date=2 March 1898|access-date=30 April 2021}}.
- Blanche Floriet, who became duchess Melzi d'Eril di Lodi (1879–1961), mother of the photographer Georgette Chadourne (1899–1983).{{CN|date=December 2021}}
- George Floriet.{{CN|date=December 2021}}
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- [https://androom.home.xs4all.nl/biography/p013557.htm "Margyl, Jane"], androom.home.xs4all.nl
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