Louise Grandjean

also Louise Léonie Grandjean

1870–1934 · French · soprano

Louise Grandjean was a Paris soprano who taught in the city's schools before entering the Conservatoire, where she took a first prize for opéra-comique in 1893. Engaged at once by the Opéra-Comique, she created Alice Ford in the French Falstaff there in 1894, and moved the next year to the Opéra, where she sang in its first Les maîtres chanteurs and Tristan et Isolde. She sang Venus at Bayreuth in 1904, in German, at Cosima Wagner's invitation, taught singing at the Conservatoire from 1909 until her death, and was made a chevalier of the Légion d'honneur.

Creations

Mrs. Alice Ford — Falstaff (Paris, 1894)

Written from

L'Art Lyrique Français (n.d.) Grandjean Louise. (Accessed: 19 October 2026).