Lucille Tostée [SEP] voice type
Lucille Tostée
Lucille Tostée (probably died 1874), was a French soprano, associated with opéra-bouffe in Paris and the USA in the mid-19th century, particularly in the works of Offenbach.
Life and career.
Tostée's first role at the Théâtre des Bouffes Parisiens was as Scipionne in "Les vivandières de la grande-armée" in 1859, swiftly followed by a revival of "La rose de Saint-Flour", and she remained a star in the Paris opéra-bouffe from the early 1860s
1862. Two more productions were sung in German: December 1863 with Fritze, Knorr, Klein and Frin von Hedemann and December 1866 with Brügmann, Knorr, Klein and Frin Steglich-Fuchs. The opera was produced at the Theatre Français in January 1867 with Elvira Naddie, and at the Fifth Avenue Theatre in April 1868 with Lucille Tostée. In December 1883 it was produced at the Bijou Theatre with Max Freeman, Marie Vanoni, Digby Bell and Harry Pepper. There were productions in Rio de Janeiro in 1865, Buenos Aires