Constance Nantier-Didiée [SEP] voice type
Constance Nantier-Didiée
Constance Nantier-Didiée (16 November 1831 – 4 December 1867) was a French mezzo-soprano. According to commentators of her time, she was described as a true mezzo-soprano rather than a contralto. She had a wide range of comic, dramatic and travesty roles in her theatrical career developed in Paris, London, Moscow and Madrid.
Career.
Nantier-Didiée was born in Saint-Denis, Réunion. She studied with Gilbert Duprez at the Conservatoire de Paris, winning
Rossini's opera "Il conte Ory" with Constance Nantier-Didiée and Angiolina Bosio, an 'exquisite' combination of voices. In 1857 he participated in the second Lyceum season (while the new Covent Garden theatre was awaited). H. F. Chorley praised his performance of Auber's "Fra Diavolo", with Angiolina Bosio, Mlle Marai, Giorgio Ronconi and Pietro Neri-Baraldi, with Joseph Tagliafico and Charles Zelger as the Brigands.
During the later 1850s Gardoni appeared often at Covent Garden, including performances of Alfredo