Alba Chrétien-Vaguet
Albertine Marie Chrétien-Vaguet (8 March 1872 – 28 February 1963) was a French operatic soprano. Chrétien-Vaguet was born in Paris. She studied the piano at the Conservatoire de Paris and began her career at La Monnaie in Brussels in 1891. Chrétien-Vaguet’s first operatic appearance in Brussels was as Alice in "Robert le Diable", (7 September 1891); she followed this with roles in "le Rêve", "Yolande" by Magnard (creating the title role on 27 December 1892), and Charlotte in "Werther". Her debut at the Paris Opéra was again as Alice in "Robert le Diable" on  31 juillet 1893, going on to sing in "Lohengrin", "Les Huguenots", "la Walkyrie", "Djelma", and the premiere of "Deïdamie" (1 December 1893). She married Albert Vaguet (1865–1943), a tenor of the Opéra de Paris, with whom she had sung in the première of "Deïdamie", on 30 June 1894 in Paris. Chrétien-Vaguet sang Thanastô in the first (concert) performance of Chabrier's "Briséïs" on 13 January 1897, as well as in the first French staged performance on 8 May 1899 (in which her husband sang Hylas). She took part in concerts given by the Société des Concerts du Conservatoire in  February 1894 ("Le Paradis et la Péri" by Schumann, with Vaguet also taking part), and January and February 1901 (excerpts from "Armide" by Gluck). She died, aged 90, in Nay, near Pau.