Talk:Thérésa (singer)

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Did you know... that opera singer Thérésa was "admired" by Napoleon III?

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"opera" singer[edit]

An "opera" singer, by definition, sings in operas. To judge from the article, Thérésa was a chanteuse. --Wetman (talk) 17:18, 15 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I agree. She did make guest appearances in operettas (operette bouffe). Offenbach added a role explicitly written for her and some special numbers in the revival of La boulangère a des écus and supposedly was a great admirer of her. See these sources: [1], [2]. But I think calling her an "opera singer" is really stretching it. I suggest removing it and just calling her a singer.

None of the three sources used in the article (they're not scholarly ones to begin with) call her an opera singer or mention any operas or even operettes in which she actually appeared. This one explicitly says that she was so admired as a singer that she was referred to as an « artiste » even though at the time the term was normally reserved only for opera singers. This one mentions that Offenbach had an unfinished project to write an operette bouffe starring her, but that's it. Her complete memoirs are on line at Gallica [3] if anyone feels like plowing through them. Voceditenore (talk) 06:09, 17 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Something seems to be wrong[edit]

"She often worked with Suzanne Lagier" - i couldn't find any sources for this fact. They were just colleagues. Same decades, but different stages (Cafes)! Same kind of singing of the, in these days, popular (Yodeling songs, so called tyroliennes), but no "working with". Alberich21 (talk) 16:39, 25 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]