as l'amour "Orpheo & Euridice" by Gluck

Yvonne Brothier
1889 -1967)
French Soprano
After singing in Brussels in 1914, she made her début at the Opéra-comique on 13 February 1916 in “ Lakmé” by Delibes. She went on to create roles in Louis Aubert's La forêt bleue “ (Red Riding Hood )(French premiere), Graziella (title role), Marcel Samuel-Rousseau's” Le Hulla “ (Dilara), Raoul Laparra's “Le joueur de viole” (the young girl), Fauré's “Masques et Bergamasques” Charles-Henri Maréchal's “Ping-Sin” (title role) and Sylvio Lazzari's “Le sauteriot” (Orti).
Her repertoire at the Opéra-Comique also included Rosina (The Barber of Seville), Micaëla (Carmen), Olympia (Les contes d'Hoffmann), Melisande (Pelléas et Mélisande), Mireille, Rosenn (Le roi d'Ys), Minka (Le roi malgré lui) and Zaire (Les Indes galantes).[2]
Appeared at the Paris Opera in 1931 in the first performance of Virginie by Alfred Bruneau, later singing Sophie in “Der Rosenkavalier” and Rosine in “The Barber of Seville” (both in French). She also sang in Amsterdam, La Scala and in Spain and north Africa.
She retired in 1940 and devoted herself to teaching.