Gills, Mme. Gabrielle

Gills, Mme. Gabrielle Also known as Madame Mannheim, she is the dedicatee of »La Messagère« from Fauré's Le Jardin clos. She made her Paris Opera debut in 1916 in a number of minor operas, but also as the title heroine in Gounod's (1818–1893) Roméo et Juliette (1867). In 1917, she sang at New York's Aeolian Hall, and was reviewed in the New York Times: » Miss Gills's voice is ample in power and range, and while it can hardly be called one of sensuous beauty and smoothness, at its best it is of…