Lalande, Henriette-Clémentine Méric

LALANDE, Henriette-Clémentine MÉRIC, the daughter of Lamiraux-Lalande, the chief of a provincial operatic company, was born at Dunkerque in 1798. Having been taught music by her father, she soon developed a fresh and ringing voice, and was endowed with excellent memory and intelligence; but the only teaching she really had was in the music of the parts entrusted to her. She made her début with success in 1814 at Naples: Fétis heard her, and admired her as an actress of opéra...