View source for Toussaint-Eugène-Ernest Mocker

{{Short description|French opera singer and stage director}}
{{Infobox person
| name        = Toussaint-Eugène-Ernest Mocker
| image       = ErnestMocker.jpg
| caption     = Mocker, c. 1880; photo by [[Pierre Petit (photographer)|Pierre Petit]]
| birth_date  = {{Birth date|1811|07|16|df=yes}}
| birth_place = [[Lyon]], France
| death_date  =  {{Death date and age|1895|10|03|1811|07|16|df=yes}}
| death_place = [[Brunoy]], France
|occupation   = {{flatlist|
*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 [[Opéra-Comique|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]].<ref>[[Bibliothèque nationale de France]]. [http://data.bnf.fr/14844026/ernest_mocker/ "Ernest Mocker (1811–1895)"]. Retrieved 4 May 2017 {{in lang|fr}}</ref><ref>Cler, Albert (1 July 1846). [http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6181372g/f4 "Mocker"]. ''Le Journal des coiffeurs'', pp. 1212–1213 {{in lang|fr}}</ref><ref>Vapereau, Gustave (1870). [https://books.google.com/books?id=OSVCAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA1283 "Mocker (Toussaint-Eugène-Ernest)"]. ''Dictionnaire universel des contemporains'', Vol. 2, p. 1283. Hachette et Cie {{in lang|fr}}</ref><ref>[[Karl-Josef Kutsch|Kutsch, Karl-Josef]] and [[Leo Riemens|Riemens, Leo]] (2004). [https://books.google.com/books?id=dsfq_5dFeL0C&pg=PA3165 "Mocker, Toussaint-Eugène-Ernest"]. ''[[Großes Sängerlexikon]]'', Vol. 4, p. 3165. Walter de Gruyter. {{ISBN|359844088X}} {{in lang|de}}</ref><ref>Spoll, E. A. (19 October 1895). [http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k2728304/f1.item "Un Disparu: Ernest Mocker"]. ''[[Le Figaro]]'' (Supplément littéraire du dimanche), 21<sup>e</sup> Année, N<sup>o</sup> 42, p. 164 {{in lang|fr}}</ref>
==Roles created==
{{stack|[[File:Mocker, rôle de Danilowitz, dans L'étoile du nord, acte 3.jpg|thumb|Mocker as Danilowitch in ''L'étoile du nord'']]}}
Roles created by Mocker at the [[Opéra-Comique]] include:<ref>{{Almanacco|match=Mocker|label=Performances by Ernest Mocker}}</ref>
*Lelio in [[Alexandre Montfort|Montfort]]'s ''Polichinelle'' (1839)
*Albert in [[Louis Clapisson|Clapisson]]'s ''La symphonie, ou Maître Albert'' (1839)
*Comte d'Elvas in [[Adolphe Adam|Adam]]'s ''La reine d'un jour'' (1839)
*Charles VI in [[Daniel Auber|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==
{{reflist}}
==External links==
*{{Commons category-inline}}
{{Portal bar|Biography|Opera|France}}
{{Authority control}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Mocker, Toussaint-Eugene-Ernest}}
[[Category:1811 births]]
[[Category:1895 deaths]]
[[Category:Musicians from Lyon]]
[[Category:French operatic tenors]]
[[Category:19th-century French male opera singers]]
[[Category:Academic staff of the Conservatoire de Paris]]
[[Category:Voice teachers]]