Mily Meyer

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".

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. Petite Mademoiselle (1879) and Belle Lurette (1880) swiftly followed. and at the Théâtre des Bouffes Parisiens as Bianca in the first run of La Béarnaise in 1885.

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.

Mily-Meyer continued to appear on stage up until 1906.