Grassari, Mlle Gérard
(*1793)> VOCALIST
Grassari, Mlle Gérard DITE (1793, Tongres, Belgium), vocalist, was brought to Paris by her divorced mother around 1814 and enrolled in the Conservatoire to complete her musical studies. She left the Conservatoire in 1816 and made her debut at the Opéra on 13 February 1816 under her stage name of Grassari. Her first role was Antigone in Oedipe à Colone (see eighteenth-century volume for Oedipe à Colone). Mlle Grassari had a striking soprano voice, and she was assigned immediately to act as a…