Lucy Arbell [SEP] voice type
Lucy Arbell
Lucy Arbell ("née" Georgette Gall, Georgette Wallace) (Le Vésinet, 8 June 1878 – Bougival, 21 May 1947), was a French mezzo-soprano whose operatic career was mainly centred in Paris and who was particularly associated with the composer Jules Massenet.
Life and career.
The father of Georgette was Edmond Richard Wallace (1840-1887), son of Sir Richard Wallace.
Arbell made her stage debut as Dalila at the Paris Opéra on 23 October 1903. She also
Égreville. He was uninterested in Parisian society, and so shunned the limelight that in later life he preferred not to attend his own first nights. He described himself as "a fireside man, a bourgeois artist". The main biographical detail of note of his latter years was his second "amitié amoureuse" with one of his leading ladies, Lucy Arbell, who created roles in his last operas. Milnes describes Arbell as "gold-digging": her blatant exploitation of the composer's honourable affections caused his wife considerable