Marie Ismaël-Garcin [SEP] voice type
Marie Ismaël-Garcin
Marie Ismaël-Garcin (4 April 1858 - 6 December 1946), was a French opera singer who specialised in light soprano roles and sang leading roles in several French opera houses during the 1880s. She was married to the French baritone, Jean-Vital Jammes.
Life and career.
Marie Ismaël-Garcin was born Rose Françoise Marie Garcin in Marseille and studied singing in Paris under Jean-Vital Jammes (known by his stage name, Ismaël). She later married him, after
Destranges, writing in " Le Théâtre à Nantes", Marie Ismaël-Garcin had been a singer of great promise and achieved a considerable success there as Dinorah in Meyerbeer's "Le pardon de Ploërmel", but by 1889, her voice was already in decline. After a poor performance in Lalo's "Le roi d'Ys" in April of that year, she retired from the stage.
Ismaël had retired definitively from the stage in the early 1880s and spent the last years of his life with Marie at his villa