Rose Caron

Who was Rose Caron?

Rose Caron was a French operatic soprano.

Rose Caron was born at Monnerville. She studied at the Paris Conservatoire, but was not taken on at the Paris Opera; her husband, an accompanist, encouraged her to take lessons from Marie Sasse who helped her to get engagements at the opera in Brussels.

Caron’s first operatic appearance in Brussels was as Alice in Robert le Diable, followed by Salomé in Hérodiade and Marguérite in Faust; noticed by Ernest Reyer, he chose her to create the role of Brunehild in Sigurd in 1884. The title role in Salammbo in 1890 was also created by Caron.

Her repertoire included several Wagnerian roles, Rachel in La Juive and Valentine in Les Huguenots.

At the Opéra-Comique she sang Léonore in Fidelio in 1898, Iphigénie en Tauride and Orphée.

Caron sang a few times at the Société des Concerts du Conservatoire in December 1885/January 1886, at the official concert of the Exposition Universelle on 20 June 1889, and in March 1895.