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{{short description|French opera singer}}
[[File:Mily-Meyer as Miss Lenormand.jpg|thumb|164 px|Mily-Meyer as Mademoiselle Lenormand in ''La revue retrospective'', 1899]]
'''Émilie Mily Meyer''', stage name 'Mily-Meyer' was a French soprano, born 1852 in [[Paris]], died there in 1927, who for a quarter of a century became a major star of the Parisian operetta stage, and is described by Gänzl as an "impishly boyish yet obviously feminine soubrette".<ref name="Gänzl">Gänzl, K. ''The Encyclopedia of the Musical Theatre.'' Oxford: Blackwell, 1994.</ref>
==Career==
Her professional début was at the Eldorado café-concert; she then went to the [[Théâtre de la Renaissance]] and appeared as the young duchess in the premiere of ''[[Le petit duc]]'' on 25 January 1878.<ref name="Gänzl"/> Creations in ''[[La Camargo (opera)|La Camargo]]'' (1878),<ref>Vanloo, A. ''Sur le plateau: souvenirs d'une librettiste''. Paris, 1913.</ref> ''Petite Mademoiselle'' (1879) and ''[[Belle Lurette]]'' (1880) swiftly followed.<ref name ="Martin"/>
Mily-Meyer appeared at the [[Théâtre des Nouveautés]] as Kate in the French premiere of ''[[Rip Van Winkle (operetta)|Rip]]''<ref>[[Richard Traubner|Traubner, R.]] ''Operetta — a theatrical history.'' Oxford University Press, 1983.</ref> and at the [[Théâtre des Bouffes Parisiens]] as Bianca in the first run of ''[[La Béarnaise]]'' in 1885.<ref name="Gänzl"/> Also at [[Théâtre des Variétés]] was ''[[La princesse de Trébizonde]]'', while at the Théâtre des Folies-Dramatiques she was in the French premiere of Millöcker's ''La Demoiselle de Belleville'' ''(Die Jungfrau von Belleville)''.
Among many other operettas in which she sang were ''Roi de Carreau'' (1885) and ''Babolin'' (1884) at the Théâtre des Folies-Dramatiques (November 1884); ''La vie mondaine'' (1885) at the [[Théâtre des Nouveautés]], and at the [[Théâtre des Bouffes Parisiens]], ''[[La Béarnaise]]'' (1885), as Benjamine in ''Joséphine'' (1886), ''Gamine de Paris'' (1887), ''Le Retour d'Ulysse'' (1889), ''[[Le mari de la reine]]'' (1889), ''Cendrillonnette'' (1890) and revivals of ''Les petits mousquetaires'' and ''La Princesse de Trébizonde''. Back at the Renaissance, she created ''La gardeuse d'oies'' (1888) and ''La petite Poucette'' (1891); followed by ''La Demoiselle du Téléphone'' (1891) at the Nouveautés, ''Fleur de Vertu'' (1894) at the Bouffes, and ''L'Élève du Conservatoire'' (1894) at the [[Théâtre des Menus-Plaisirs]].<ref name ="Martin">Martin, J. ''Nos artistes des théâtres et concerts.'' Paris: Paul Ollendorff, 1895.</ref>
[[Chabrier]] dedicated his 1889 'Villanelle des petits canards' to Mily-Meyer, who gave the song's premiere at the [[Théâtre du Vaudeville]] on 7 March 1890.<ref>Delage, R. ''Emmanuel Chabrier.'' Fayard, Paris, 1999.</ref>
Mily-Meyer continued to appear on stage up until 1906.<ref name="Gänzl"/>
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