- Gabriel FAURÉ. L.A.S., Lugano Sunday [1912, to Albert Carré, director of the Opéra-Comique]; 3 pages in-8 on letterhead Conservatoire National de Musique et de Déclamation. The Director. Interesting letter on the debut of the singer Germaine Lubin (1890-1979), who had just won the three first prizes of the Conservatoire (singing, opera and comic opera). She was "requested at the same time by the Opéra and the Opéra-Comique" and expressed her desire to go to the latter. But the Under-Secretary of State has just written to Fauré to remind him of the regulations which stipulate that the pupil must be assigned according to her aptitudes, and Fauré thinks that "Mlle Lubin's dramatic soprano will find more use at the Opéra than at the Opéra-Comique", where she will hardly be able to sing anything other than Aphrodite, Tosca and perhaps Werther... He suggests instead that Carré should consider Mlle Bugg, "as a voice and as a play"... He adds: "I have some quarter notes, eighth notes and sixteenth notes for you on my table'...