Toussaint-Eugène-Ernest Mocker (16 July 1811 – 3 October 1895) was a French opera singer and stage director. In his 30-year career as a principal singer at the Théâtre Impérial de l'Opéra-Comique he created numerous roles in the company's world premieres and from 1860 served as a stage director there. In his later years he was a singing teacher at the Conservatoire de Paris.[1][2][3][4][5]
Toussaint-Eugène-Ernest Mocker | |
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 Mocker, c. 1880; photo by Pierre Petit | |
| Born | 16 July 1811 Lyon, France |
| Died | 3 October 1895 (aged 84) Brunoy, France |
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Roles created edit
Roles created by Mocker at the Opéra-Comique include:[6]
- Lelio in Montfort's Polichinelle (1839)
- Albert in Clapisson's La symphonie, ou Maître Albert (1839)
- Comte d'Elvas in Adam's La reine d'un jour (1839)
- Charles VI in Auber's Zanetta (1840)
- Don Sébastien d'Aveyro in Auber's Les diamants de la couronne (1841)
- Tracolin in Adams's Le toréador (1849)
- Danilowitch in Meyerbeer's L'étoile du nord (1854)
- Chevalier de Boisrobert in Halévy's Valentine d'Aubigny (1856)
References edit
- ^ Bibliothèque nationale de France. "Ernest Mocker (1811–1895)". Retrieved 4 May 2017 (in French)
- ^ Cler, Albert (1 July 1846). "Mocker". Le Journal des coiffeurs, pp. 1212–1213 (in French)
- ^ Vapereau, Gustave (1870). "Mocker (Toussaint-Eugène-Ernest)". Dictionnaire universel des contemporains, Vol. 2, p. 1283. Hachette et Cie (in French)
- ^ Kutsch, Karl-Josef and Riemens, Leo (2004). "Mocker, Toussaint-Eugène-Ernest". Großes Sängerlexikon, Vol. 4, p. 3165. Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 359844088X (in German)
- ^ Spoll, E. A. (19 October 1895). "Un Disparu: Ernest Mocker". Le Figaro (Supplément littéraire du dimanche), 21e Année, No 42, p. 164 (in French)
- ^ Casaglia, Gherardo (2005). "Performances by Ernest Mocker". L'Almanacco di Gherardo Casaglia (in Italian).
External links edit
Media related to Ernest Mocker at Wikimedia Commons
