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1898 Opera Comique LA MASCOTTE Edmond Audran, Duru & Chivot; Théâtre de la Gaîté

$ 5.14

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  • Condition: This 120 year old publication is in fair to good overall condition. It is complete and fully readable.The front page (front cover/beginning of Ballade Du Diable) has separated from the rest of the item - see below). Pages show edge wear, but no longer tears, creasing or heavy soiling. See scans.
  • Country/Region of Manufacture: France
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  • Original/Reproduction: Original
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    Description

    1898 Opéra Comique
    La Mascotte
    Music by
    Edmond Audran
    words by
    Duru
    &
    Chivot;
    Théâtre de la Gaîté
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    antique
    (circa 1898)
    sheet music from
    La Mascotte
    (
    The Mascot
    )
    Théâtre de la Gaîté
    (Theatre de la Gaite)
    Three-Act
    Opéra Comique
    Music by
    Edmond Audran
    words by
    Alfred Duru
    and
    Henri Chivot
    Printed in Paris.
    The publication has 9 numbered pages.
    Included are:
    Ballade Du Diable
    - sung by
    Noel
    Duetto Des Moutons
    - sung by
    Noel & Cocyte
    Chanson De Lorang-Outang
    - sung by
    de Berio
    Romance Du Baiser
    - sung by
    Noel
    Theatre de la Gaite opened in 1868 in the Montparnasse quarter of Paris
    .
    The singer/actress Cocyte
    *
    was active in the late 19
    th
    and early 20
    th
    Centuries.
    This 120 year old publication is in fair to good overall condition.
    It is complete and fully readable.
    The front page (front cover/beginning of
    Ballade Du Diable
    ) has separated from the rest of the item – see below).
    Pages show edge wear, but no longer tears, creasing or heavy soiling.  See scans.
    ******
    From on-line sources:
    *
    Mathilde
    COCYTE
    -
    French mezzo-soprano. First sang under the name of Mlle Thilma, in cafe-concerts and theaters of operettas with her husband, the comic Raiter (Folies-Bergere of Rouen, 1891, Alcazar of summer in Paris, 1894).  Engaged for three years at the Théâtre de la Gaîté in Paris, she started under the name of Mathilde Cocyte, September 12, 1896.
    From
    The Directory of Artists
    (1898) [translated from French]
    Ms. Cocyte
    : The charming divette is among those whose vocation is innate and that success devotes stars as a reward for their love of art. Mrs. Cocyte, from an early age, chirped like a nightingale and applied herself to the study of singing … Everywhere she was acclaimed and everywhere she was the favorite artist who imposes from the beginning by grace and talent. … M. Debruyere, the intelligent director of the
    Theater de la Gaite
    , engaged her brilliantly to play
    Mascotte
    , where she triumphed in the role of Bettina…
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