Toussaint-Eugène-Ernest Mocker

French opera singer and stage director

opera singer
stage director

Toussaint-Eugène-Ernest Mocker (16 July 1811 – 3 October 1895) was a French opera singer and stage director. In his 30-year career as a principal singer at the Théâtre Impérial de l'Opéra-Comique he created numerous roles in the company's world premieres and from 1860 served as a stage director there. In his later years he was a singing teacher at the Conservatoire de Paris.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]

Roles created

Roles created by Mocker at the Opéra-Comique include:^[6]

Lelio in Montfort's Polichinelle (1839)
Albert in Clapisson's La symphonie, ou Maître Albert (1839)
Comte d'Elvas in Adam's La reine d'un jour (1839)
Charles VI in Auber's Zanetta (1840)
Don Sébastien d'Aveyro in Auber's Les diamants de la couronne (1841)
Tracolin in Adams's Le toréador (1849)
Danilowitch in Meyerbeer's L'étoile du nord (1854)
Chevalier de Boisrobert in Halévy's Valentine d'Aubigny (1856)

References

^ Bibliothèque nationale de France. "Ernest Mocker (1811–1895)". Retrieved 4 May 2017 (in French)
^ Cler, Albert (1 July 1846). "Mocker". Le Journal des coiffeurs, pp. 1212–1213 (in French)
^ Vapereau, Gustave (1870). "Mocker (Toussaint-Eugène-Ernest)". Dictionnaire universel des contemporains, Vol. 2, p. 1283. Hachette et Cie (in French)
^ Kutsch, Karl-Josef and Riemens, Leo (2004). "Mocker, Toussaint-Eugène-Ernest". Großes Sängerlexikon, Vol. 4, p. 3165. Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 359844088X (in German)
^ Spoll, E. A. (19 October 1895). "Un Disparu: Ernest Mocker". Le Figaro (Supplément littéraire du dimanche), 21^e Année, N^o 42, p. 164 (in French)
^ Casaglia, Gherardo (2005). "Performances by Ernest Mocker". L'Almanacco di Gherardo Casaglia (in Italian).