The Countess : Emma Clavet

 

This huge soprano, was a star before his time, his talent, his fame, his fury. She led by some by his whims and eccentricities: Josephine Baker and his castle on the Dordogne or George Harrison and John Lennon with their Hindu magicians. Emma had her swanni his mage, and felt the occult.

The nightingale born in Decazeville in 1858 was in its time qualified Belle, also famous than was the Callas sixty years later.

Massenet wrote operas for Emma as Sappho.

As for Carmen, never Soprano in the world interpreted it many times.

The America's venerated. Draped in a tricolor flag to sing the Marseillaise on the American scene, she contributed to the US involvement in the First World War.

We must reread the New York press 1900, you'd read about Tina Turner and Mick Jagger declaring once again that this is their last tour.

She who was the friend of royalty did not have the big head. She remained throughout his life the child Causses without ever denying its peasant origins and Rouergue. Born in Decazeville, in 1858, where his father's construction contractor boisait mines, she spent her childhood between Roquefort and Tournemire where his father was then established to participate in the construction of the line of Causses.