Marguerite Olagnier

Marguerite Olagnier (née Joly) (1844–1906) was a French vocalist, composer and poet[1] who began her musical life singing at the Théâtre des Variétées in Paris.

Marguerite Olagnier (1844-1906)

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, Le Saïs,[1] which "aimed at the fantasies and desires of women."[2] It was staged at the Théâtre de la Renaissance in Paris on 18 December 1881 and was later performed by Victor Capoul, an Opéra-Comique tenor.[2]

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.[3]

References
  1. "Olagnier [née Joly], Marguerite : Oxford Music Online - oi". oxfordindex.oup.com. doi:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.48614. Retrieved 17 November 2019.
  2. Henson, Karen (1 October 1999). "Victor Capoul, Marguerite Olagnier's "Le Saïs", and the Arousing of Female Desire". Journal of the American Musicological Society. 52 (3): 419–463. doi:10.2307/831790. ISSN 0003-0139.
  3. Fuller-Maitland, John Alexander; Grove, Sir George; Pratt, Waldo Selden (1922). Grove's dictionary of music and musicians: Volume 1.


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