Marie-Julie Halligner [SEP] voice type
Marie-Julie Halligner
Marie-Julie Boulanger, née Marie-Julie Halligner (29 January 1786 – 23 July 1850), was a French mezzo-soprano. She performed her entire career under the stage name Mme Boulanger, appearing in the world premieres of "Le maître de chapelle", "L'ambassadrice", "Le domino noir", and "La fille du régiment".
Biography.
Born in Paris, her parents were middle-class shopkeepers. She was the older sister of Sophie Halligner
Adrien Boieldieu. Her voice was reportedly "fine, her execution brilliant and her acting full of character and intelligence." After retirement in 1845, she concentrated on teaching activities in Paris.
Halligner was the wife of cellist and professor of the Paris Conservatory, Frédéric Boulanger, whom she had met during her studies there. Her son, Ernest Boulanger, winner of the Grand Prix de Rome in 1835, was a composer of comic operas; her daughter-in-law, Princess Raissa Mychetsky, descended from St. Mikahil