Alba Chrétien-Vaguet

Who was Alba Chrétien-Vaguet?

Albertine Marie Chrétien-Vaguet was a French operatic soprano.

Chrétien-Vaguet was born in Paris. She studied the piano at the Paris Conservatoire and began her career at La Monnaie in Brussels in 1891.

Chrétien-Vaguet’s first operatic appearance in Brussels was as Alice in Robert le Diable,; she followed this with roles in le Rêve, Yolande by Magnard, and Charlotte in Werther. Her debut at the Paris Opéra was again as Alice in Robert le Diable on 31 juillet 1893, going on to sing in Lohengrin, Les Huguenots, la Walkyrie, Djelma, and the premiere of Deïdamie.

She married Albert Vaguet, a tenor of the Opéra de Paris, with whom she had sung in the première of Deïdamie, on 30 June 1894 in Paris.

Chrétien-Vaguet sang Thanastô in the first performance of Chabrier's Briséïs on 13 January 1897, as well as in the first French staged performance on 8 May 1899.

She took part in concerts given by the Société des Concerts du Conservatoire in February 1894, and January and February 1901. She died, aged 90, in Nay, near Pau.