Marguerite Olagnier (née Joly) (1844 – 12 September 1906) was a French vocalist,

composer A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music. Etymology and Defi ...

and poet who began her musical life singing at the Théâtre des Variétées in Paris.

Career

While traveling in Egypt with her husband Eugène Olagnier, it is believed that she wrote both words and music of an "exotic opera" in four acts, ', which "aimed at the fantasies and desires of women." It was staged at the Théâtre de la Renaissance in Paris on 18 December 1881 and was later performed by

Victor Capoul Joseph Victor Amédée Capoul (27 February 1839 – 18 February 1924) was a French operatic lyric tenor with a graceful singing style. Forbes E., Steane J.B., "Victor Capoul". In: ''The New Grove Dictionary of Opera.'' Macmillan, London and N ...

, an Opéra-Comique tenor. Later in life she directed her own company, the Théâtre de l'Oratorio, in weekly performances of 18th- and 19th-century oratorios. Olagnier also composed a number of songs and two more operas, ''Le Persan'' and ''Lilipa'', which were never performed. Her only known novel was never finished.

References

External links

Le Sais digitized online by GoogleBooks

Henson, Karen: "Victor Capoul, Marguerite Olagnier's ''Le Sais'', and the Arousing of Female Desire", in ''Journal of the American Musicological Society'', vol. 52, no. 3 (October 1999), pp. 419–463.
1844 births 1906 deaths 19th-century classical composers 19th-century French composers 19th-century French women singers 19th-century French women composers French women opera composers French opera composers Theatre directors from Paris French women theatre directors {{France-composer-stub