1906 Amelia TALEXIS GASTON DUBOIS Traviata ODEON 78

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Rare recording of French Soprano AMELIA TALEXIS and Tenor Mario Gilion

Kutsch Riemens says about the rare Talexis records:

Her great records, my in demand by collectors, presents one of the most beautiful dramatic soprano voices of her time

A true Collectors Gem!

Amelia Talexis, soprano, Gaston Dubois, tenor;

La Traviata: Brindisi/ Trovatore Miserere

On superb, FRENCH ODEON 10 3/8"  78 rpm record

Condition Record: EXCELLENT MINUS, scuffs, rare finest scratch on Trovatore

from www.marstonrecords.com

DUBOIS, GASTON [te] (ca. 1876–?) Dubois studied at the Paris Conservatory and graduated in 1901. He made his debut at the Paris Opera on 3 March 1902 as Vasco de Gama in L’Africaine. His career centered around the Paris Opera in relatively minor roles from his debut there until 1930. Dubois also sang at the Théâtre de la Gaité-Lyrique (Bruneau’s L’attaque du moulin, 1907), the opera house in Nice, the Monte Carlo Opera, and the Opéra-Comique (debuting on 1 September 1911 as Des Grieux in Massenet’s Manon, adding six more roles there). Dubois created six roles at the Paris Opera and participated in ten important first performances there including minor roles in Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde, Fauré’s Prométhée, Strauss’s Salome, Giordano’s Siberia, Ravel’s L’heure Espagnole, Verdi’s Falstaff, Moussorgsky’s Khovantchina, and Massenet’s Esclarmonde. Gaston Dubois recorded several cylinders for Edison, and discs for Odéon, Gramophone, Homophone, Le Merveilleux, Le Supr-Disque, Néron, Apollon, Eden, and Opéra.

TALEXIS, AMÉLIE [so] (Toulouse, 1875–Calais, 1911) At an early age, Talexis began studying piano and cello at the Toulouse Conservatory, and then studied singing under Jacques Roudil who had previously sung at the Paris Opera and then taught at the Toulouse Conservatory. One source claims that Talexis studied with Paul Lhérie who taught at the Paris Conservatory. Talexis might have studied privately with Lhérie, but there is no evidence that she attended the Conservatory or that she ever sang on any of the Paris stages. Her earliest engagement was most likely at the French Opera in New Orleans during the 1897–1898 season. It was there that Talexis probably met her future husband, Henri Berriel, who was the director and first baritone of the New Orleans company. During the 1898–1899 season, Talexis was the forte chanteuse falcon at Antwerp’s Théâtre Royal. Berriel was also engaged there as premiere baritone but was found unsatisfactory and his contract was cancelled. Talexis and Berriel both sang in Montreal during the 1899–1900 season and in the spring of 1900, Talexis sang 11 performances at the Grand Théâtre de Bordeaux: Salomé in Herodiade; Bertha in Le prophète; both Eudoxie and Rachel in La Juive; Chimène in Le Cid. Talexis returned to New Orleans for the 1900–1901 season, where Berriel was again doubling as director and first baritone. On the New Orleans roster for that season, she was unaccountably listed as “Mme Talexis de l’Opéra-Comique de Paris”. At this point in her career, we seem to lose track of her, though she is said to have sung Aida in Barcelona, as well as Donna Anna at La Scala, the Colón, and the Havana Opera. As evidenced by her recordings, her voice was powerful with a wide range and a secure technique, equally comfortable in French and Italian. She recorded for Fonotipia and Odeon including the Act 4 duet from Les Huguenots with Léon Escalaïs, which unfortunately was never released. We can only hope that someday, it will surface. Talexis died tragically in a freak accident in the bathroom of a hotel in Calais on her way to London at 36 years of age. 

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