Yvonne Brothier [SEP] voice type
Yvonne Brothier
Yvonne Brothier (born 6 June 1889 in Saint-Julien-l'Ars, Vienne, died in Paris, 22 January 1967) was a soprano operatic singer who worked principally at the Opéra-Comique, Paris.
After singing in Brussels in 1914, she made her début at the Opéra-comique on 13 February 1916 in "Lakmé" by Delibes. She went on to create roles in Louis Aubert's "La forêt bleue" (Red Riding Hood) (French premiere), "Graziella" (
), Melisande ("Pelléas et Mélisande"), Mireille, Rosenn ("Le roi d'Ys"), Minka ("Le roi malgré lui") and Zaire ("Les Indes galantes").
On 26 November 1921, Yvonne Brothier sang the la Marseillaise and airs from "Mireille" and "The Barber of Seville" over the radio from the Sainte-Assise transmitter. Her voice reached the rooms of the Lutetia forty kilometres away in Paris.
Brothier appeared at the Paris Opera in 1931 in