Rousselois, Marie-Wilhelmine de
(1765–1850)> SINGER
Rousselois, Marie-Wilhelmine de (1765, Vienna; 1850, Brussels), singer, began her career as première chanteuse at the French Opéra in Cassel during 1784, and she moved on to Paris in 1786. She managed to obtain a contract at the Opéra, where she came to the attention of the public on account of her brilliant interpretation of the title role in Gluck’s Iphigénie en Aulide Unfortunately, her success in this work and in Démophon aroused Mlle Maillard’s jealousy, and she found herself cut off from…