Marguerite Olagnier

Marguerite Olagnier (née Joly) (1844–1906) was a French singer and composer who sang at the Théâtre des Variétés in Paris and became director of the Théâtre de l'Oratorio. Olagnier composed Le Saïs an "exotic opera" which was staged in Paris in December 1881. She also wrote two other operas which were never performed and a selection of songs.^[1][2]

References

1. ^ "Autograph letter signed "H. Berlioz":BERLIOZ, Hector 1803–1869". http://www.abaa.org/browse_books/catalog/1891299/562010.html. Retrieved 16 October 2010. 
2. ^ Fuller-Maitland, John Alexander; Grove, Sir George; Pratt, Waldo Selden (1922). Grove's dictionary of music and musicians: Volume 1. 

External links

• Le Sais digitized online by GoogleBooks
• Henson, Karen. "Victor Capoul, Marguerite Olagnier's Le Sais, and the Arousing of Female Desire". Journal of the American Musicological Society, October 1999, Vol. 52, No. 3, Pages 419–463.

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Name	Olagnier, Marguerite
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Date of birth	1844
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Date of death	1906
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