Meyriane Héglon

Meyriane Héglon was a Belgian contralto from Brussels, a pupil of Rosine Laborde, who made her debut at the Paris Opéra in 1890 as Maddalena in Rigoletto and sang there into the 1900s. Amneris, Dalila, Fricka, Cassandre and Fidès were among her roles. She created Emilia in Othello in 1894, Myrtale in Massenet's Thaïs the same year, the title role of Guiraud and Saint-Saëns's Frédégonde in 1895 and Livie in Saint-Saëns's Les barbares in 1901. Her third husband was the composer Xavier Leroux.