Julie-Angélique Scio [SEP] voice type
Julie-Angélique Scio
Julie-Angélique Scio (1768 – 14 July 1807) was a leading French soprano. Born in Lille as Julie-Angélique Legrand, she married the composer Etienne Scio. She made her debut in Paris in 1792. She is most famous for creating roles in operas by Luigi Cherubini staged at the Théâtre Feydeau between 1794 and 1800, namely the title characters of "Eliza" and "Médée" and Constance in "Les deux journées".
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- "New Grove Dictionary of
's first opera, "L'amour filial" (1792), was a success in Paris and was performed throughout Europe: Brussels, Cologne and Rotterdam in 1795, Bern and Moscow in 1809, Berlin and Hamburg (in a German translation) in 1796.
His most famous opera, "Léonore, ou L’amour conjugal", premièred in 1798, with Gaveaux himself in the role of Florestan and Julie-Angélique Scio as Léonore. It is best known today because the libretto (by Jean-Nicolas Bouilly) served as