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Yvonne Gall - Lakmé - Dans la fotêt près de nous _ Pathé X 90078

Yvonne Gall (born 6 March 1885 in Paris; died 21 August 1972 in Paris) was a famous French operatic soprano.
She trained at the Conservatoire de Paris and made her debut in 1908 at the Paris Opéra under André Messager as Woglinde in the Paris premiere of Götterdämmerung. She went on to specialize in French lyric roles, particularly Marguerite, Manon and Thaïs, though she also sang some dramatic roles such as Tosca, Elsa and eventually Isolde.
She sang at the premieres of Raoul Gunsbourg's operas, Le vieil aigle (1909), Le cantique des cantiques (1922) and Lysistrata (1923), also at the American premiere of Ravel's L'heure espagnole.
She was married to the conductor Henri Büsse