Coupé, Marie-Angélique

Coupé, Marie-Angélique (22 April 1723, Paris; ?), vocalist, whose name was also spelled Coupée and Couppé, was considered one of the most charming and graceful singers at the Opéra during the eighteenth century. She made her debut at age 16 as a nymph in the 1739 revival of Jean-Baptiste Lully’s Alceste , and she remained at the theatre until 1753, when she retired with a maximum pension of 1,000 livres (see seventeenth-century volume for Alceste and Lully). Whether it was Mlle Coupe’s youthful…