Constance-Caroline Lefebvre by Numa Blanc (1)

Constance-Caroline (Faure) Lefebvre (1828-1905); French soprano who made her debut in 1849 at the Opéra-Comique as Carlo Broschi in Auber's "La Part du Diable". In 1859 she married the baritone Jean-Baptiste Faure. She sang at various premières: Massé's "La chanteuse violée" (1850), Ambroise Thomas' "Le songe d'une nuit d'été" (1850), the role of Prascovia in Meyerbeer's "L'étoile du nord" (1854), Ambroise Thomas' "Psyche" (1857), the role of Rita in Donizetti's eponymous opera together with her husband Jean-Baptiste Faure in the role of Bortolo (1860) and the (double) role of Taven and Andreloun in Gounod's "Mireille" (1864).