Toussaint-Eugène-Ernest Mocker
Mocker, c. 1880; photo by Pierre Petit
Born(1811-07-16)16 July 1811
Lyon, France
Died3 October 1895(1895-10-03) (aged 84)
Brunoy, France
Occupations
  • 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

Mocker as Danilowitch in L'étoile du nord

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

References

  1. Bibliothèque nationale de France. "Ernest Mocker (1811–1895)". Retrieved 4 May 2017 (in French)
  2. Cler, Albert (1 July 1846). "Mocker". Le Journal des coiffeurs, pp. 1212–1213 (in French)
  3. Vapereau, Gustave (1870). "Mocker (Toussaint-Eugène-Ernest)". Dictionnaire universel des contemporains, Vol. 2, p. 1283. Hachette et Cie (in French)
  4. Kutsch, Karl-Josef and Riemens, Leo (2004). "Mocker, Toussaint-Eugène-Ernest". Großes Sängerlexikon, Vol. 4, p. 3165. Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 359844088X (in German)
  5. Spoll, E. A. (19 October 1895). "Un Disparu: Ernest Mocker". Le Figaro (Supplément littéraire du dimanche), 21e Année, No 42, p. 164 (in French)
  6. Casaglia, Gherardo (2005)."Performances by Ernest Mocker". L'Almanacco di Gherardo Casaglia (in Italian).
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