Question: One of Zélie de Lussan's most famous roles was as the title role in an opera by a composer of what nationality?

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Renée Fleming: Renée Fleming (born February 14, 1959) is an American opera singer and soprano whose repertoire encompasses Richard Strauss, Mozart, Handel, bel canto, lieder, French opera and chansons, jazz and indie rock.  Fleming has a full lyric soprano voice.  She has performed coloratura, lyric, and lighter spinto soprano operatic roles in Italian, German, French, Czech, and Russian, aside from her native English.  She also speaks fluent German and French, along with limited Italian.  Her signature roles include Countess Almaviva in Mozart's "Le nozze di Figaro", Desdemona in Verdi's "Otello", Violetta in Verdi's "La traviata", the title role in Dvořák's "Rusalka", the title role in Massenet's "Manon", the title role in Massenet's "Thaïs", the title role in Richard Strauss's "Arabella", the Marschallin in "Der Rosenkavalier", and the Countess in "Capriccio".

Georges Bizet: Georges Bizet (] ; 25 October 18383 June 1875), registered at birth as Alexandre César Léopold Bizet, was a French composer of the romantic era.  Best known for his operas in a career cut short by his early death, Bizet achieved few successes before his final work, "Carmen", which has become one of the most popular and frequently performed works in the entire opera repertoire.

Thorgrim: Thorgrim is an opera in four acts with music by the British composer Frederic H. Cowen to a libretto by Joseph Bennett after the Icelandic tale "Viglund the Fair", first performed at the Drury Lane Theatre, London on 22 April 1890.  The premiere cast included the mezzo-soprano Zélie de Lussan and the tenor Barton McGuckin.

Prosper-Didier Deshayes: Prosper-Didier Deshayes (mid 18th century – 1815) was an opera composer and dancer who lived and worked in France.  In 1764 he was a balletmaster at the Comédie-Française.  By 1774 he had become an assistant ("adjoint") at the Paris Opéra.  His first opera "Le Faux serment ou La Matrone de Gonesse", a "comédie mêlée d'ariettes" in two acts, was first performed on 31 December 1785 at the Théâtre des Beaujolais in Paris and became a popular success.  He went on to have another 18 works performed at various venues in Paris, but only two, "La faut serment" and "Zélie, ou Le mari à deux femmes", a 3-act "drame" first performed at the Salle Louvois on 29 October 1791, were ever published as musical scores.  He also participated in the collaborative Revolutionary opera "Le congrès des rois", a 3-act "comédie mêlée d'ariettes", which combined music written by Deshayes and 11 other composers and was first performed by the Opéra-Comique at the Salle Favart on 26 February 1794.  He died in Paris.

Esparbès de Lussan family: The Esparbès de Lussan family is an ancient noble house from Armagnac in France.  Its name is mentioned in a number of 12th, 13th and 14th century charters.  One of its most notable members is Louise d'Esparbès de Lussan, mistress to the future Charles X of France.

Jeff Hyslop: Jeff Hyslop (born May 30, 1951 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a Canadian musical theatre actor, singer, dancer, choreographer, and director.  His most famous roles were as Jeff the mannequin in the children's show "Today's Special" and as the title role in the Canadian travelling production of "The Phantom of the Opera".  Hyslop was married to Vancouver-born singer and actress Ruth Nichol.  They have one daughter, Gemma Nichol Hyslop, born in 1976.

Lalla Miranda: Lalla Miranda (1874-1944) was an Australian coloratura soprano who was primarily active in Belgium, France, and Great Britain.  Born in Melbourne, she was the daughter of opera singers David Miranda and Annetta Hirst and the older sister of opera singer Beatrice Miranda.  After studies in London and Paris, she made her professional opera debut in The Hague in 1898.  She then appeared in numerous operas in Amsterdam in successive years.  In 1899 she was a resident artist at La Monnaie.  She made several appearances at the Palais Garnier in Paris and at theatres in the French Provences during the first two decades of the 20th century.  In 1900-1901 and from 1907-1911 she was committed the Royal Opera House on London.  In 1910 she was committed to both the Manhattan Opera Company and the Philadelphia Opera Company.  She notably opened the 1910 season at the Manhattan Opera House in the title role of Donizetti's "Lucia di Lammermoor", a role for which she was famous.  In New York and Philadelphia she also sang Gilda in "Rigoletto", Olympia in "The Tales of Hoffmann", and the title role in "Lakmé".  After 1918 she was primarily active with the Carl Rosa Opera Company.  She retired in the early 1920s.  She made only a few recordings on the Pathé Records label.

Brett Polegato: Brett Polegato (born 1968 in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada) is an operatic baritone.  In 1999 he made his Lyric Opera of Chicago debut as Peter Niles in Levy's "Mourning Becomes Electra" followed by his La Scala debut in 2000 as Ned Keene in Britten's "Peter Grimes".  He is particularly known for his interpretation of the title role in Debussy's "Pelléas et Mélisande" which he has performed with many companies including the Bavarian State Opera, Opéra National de Paris, Oper Leipzig, and Opéra National du Rhin among others.  Other European appearances include Ubalde in Gluck's "Armide" at Opéra de Nice, the title role in Monteverdi's "Orfeo" at Opéra d'Avignon, and Frère Lèon in Messaien's "Saint François d'Assise" at Opéra National de Paris.  He has sung numerous roles with Flanders Opera, including Guglielmo in Mozart's "Così fan tutte", Albert in Massenet's "Werther", and the Steward in Jonathan Dove's "Flight".  In his native Canada, Polegato has sung Papageno in Mozart's "Die Zauberflöte", Figaro in Rossini's "Il barbiere di Siviglia", and Zurga in Bizet's "Les pêcheurs de perles" with Vancouver Opera.  In the United States, he has sung with New York City Opera, Houston Grand Opera, and Michigan Opera Theatre as well as making many concert appearances and recordings with American orchestras.  He made his Seattle Opera debut in 2005 as Henry Miles in Jake Heggie's "The End of the Affair" and returned to the company in 2007 as Orestes in Gluck's "Iphigenia in Tauris".

Zélie de Lussan: Zélie de Lussan (21 December 1861 – 18 December 1949) was an American opera singer of French descent who was successful in her native country but made most of her career in England.  The wide range of her voice allowed her to sing both mezzo-soprano and soprano roles.  Among de Lussan's most famous roles was the title role in Bizet's "Carmen", which she performed 2,000 times.  She appeared with Sir Thomas Beecham's opera companies, at Covent Garden and with the Carl Rosa Opera Company.  After retiring from the stage she made her home in London, where she continued to teach singing for many years.

Jozsef Gregor: József Gregor (August 8, 1940 - October 27, 2006) was a renowned Hungarian bass-baritone/basso buffo who enjoyed success first in Hungary, then in France, Belgium and Canada, and finally in the United States.  József Gregor was born in Rákosliget, a small town that is now part of Budapest.  He studied violin for ten years and then, voice at the Liszt Academy in Budapest for one year but did not graduate.  He started singing with the Hungarian Army chorus in 1958 before becoming a soloist in National Theatre of Szeged in Hungary.  In Europe he sang in many opera houses, including Vlaamse Opera and La Scala in Milan.  Beginning in 1989, József Gregor appeared in the US with the Portland Opera and later with the Houston Grand Opera (with Cecilia Bartoli at her American debut) and the Metropolitan Opera (with Bryn Terfel).  His most famous roles included Sarastro, Osmin, Falstaff, Don Pasquale, Dulcamara, Don Basilio, Don Bartolo, Don Magnifico, Boris Godunov, Varlaam, Philip II, Bluebeard etc., roles in masses and oratorios, musicals (Tevye, Caiaphas), and songs.  He died in Szeged of gastric cancer.

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