Opéra-Comique

…in March 1880 in an Opéra-Comique production of Ambroise Thomas’s Mignon. Her performance there won her a five-year contract, and she attained popular stardom with dizzying speed. The height of her Paris career came in April 1883, when she created the title role in Lakmé, which Leo Delibes reportedly wrote…

…Théâtre Feydeau, to form the Opéra-Comique, and the Italian companies were dissolved.