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 "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. Creations in "La Camargo" (1878), "Petite Mademoiselle" (1879) and "Belle-Lurette" (1880) swiftly followed.
Mily-Meyer appeared at the Théâtre des Nouveautés as Kate in the French premiere of "Rip" and at the Théâtre des Bouffes Parisiens as Bianca in the first run of "La Béarnaise" in 1885. Also at Théâtre des Variétés was "La princesse de Trébizonde", while at the Théâtre des Folies-Dramatiques she was in the French premiere of Millöcker's "La Demoiselle de Belleville" "(Die Jungfrau von Belleville)".
Among many other operettas in which she sang were "Roi de Carreau" (1885) and "Babolin" (1884) at the Théâtre des Folies-Dramatiques (November 1884); "La vie mondaine" (1885) at the Théâtre des Nouveautés, and at the Théâtre des Bouffes Parisiens, "La Béarnaise" (1885), as Benjamine in "Joséphine" (1886), "Gamine de Paris" (1887), "Le Retour d'Ulysse" (1889), "Le mari de la reine" (1889), "Cendrillonnette" (1890) and revivals of "Les petits mousquetaires" and "La Princesse de Trébizonde". Back at the Renaissance, she created "La gardeuse d'oies" (1888) and "La petite Poucette" (1891); followed by "La Demoiselle du Téléphone" (1891) at the Nouveautés, "Fleur de Vertu" (1894) at the Bouffes, and "L'Élève du Conservatoire" (1894) at the Théâtre des Menus-Plaisirs.
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.