Belval, Maria Gaffiot
(*1853)> VOCALIST
Belval, Maria Gaffiot DITE (1853, Gand; ?), vocalist, studied piano with Le Coupey and harmony under Savard at the Paris Conservatoire, but she became interested in the theatre and made her debut at the Théâtre-Italien on 7 October 1873 in Don Pasquale. She moved over to the Opéra for the following season, when she sang Marguerite de Valois on 14 October 1874. She was cast as Isabelle in Robert Le Diable this same year and helped to inaugurate the Garnier Palace by singing Eudoxie there in La…