Toussaint-Eugène-Ernest Mocker Explained

Toussaint-Eugène-Ernest Mocker
Birth Date:	16 July 1811
Birth Place:	Lyon, France
Death Place:	Brunoy, France

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:

• 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)

Notes and References

1. [Bibliothèque nationale de France]
2. Cler, Albert (1 July 1846). "Mocker". Le Journal des coiffeurs, pp. 1212–1213
3. Vapereau, Gustave (1870). "Mocker (Toussaint-Eugène-Ernest)". Dictionnaire universel des contemporains, Vol. 2, p. 1283. Hachette et Cie
4. [Karl-Josef Kutsch|Kutsch, Karl-Josef]
5. Spoll, E. A. (19 October 1895). "Un Disparu: Ernest Mocker". Le Figaro (Supplément littéraire du dimanche), 21^e Année, N^o 42, p. 164