Jacqueline Brumaire

Jacqueline Brumaire (born November 5, 1921 in Herblay , † October 29, 2000 in Nancy ) was a French opera singer ( soprano ).

Life

Brumaire studied at the Conservatoire de Paris with Madeleine Mathieu . In 1946 she made her debut at the Opéra-Comique as Countess in Mozart's Marriage of Figaro . As a lyrical soprano, she sang here alongside Mozart's operas a. a. Mimi in Giacomo Puccini's La Bohème , Micaela in Georges Bizet's Carmen , the title roles in Jules Massenet's Manon and Charles Gounod's Mireille , Antonia in Jacques Offenbach's Tales of Hoffmann and in 1951 Emma in the world premiere of Emmanuel Bondeville's Madame Bovary .

At the Paris Opera in 1962 she sang Donna Elvira in Mozart's Don Giovanni , later Pamina in The Magic Flute and Violetta in Giuseppe Verdi's La traviata . At La Scala in Milan she appeared in 1956 as Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte and in 1957 in the title role of Gustave Charpentier's Louise .

She made guest appearances in Johannisburg, Prague, Liège and Oran and took part in the 1962 premiere of the opera Hop! Signor of Manuel Rosenthal attended. In 1970 she retired from the opera and became a professor of singing at the Nancy Conservatory. In 1981 she studied a performance of Carmen in Beijing with Chinese singers .

Brumaire was awarded Chevalier du Mérite National and Chevalier des Arts et Lettres and in 1992 was appointed a member of the Académie Stanislas .

Web links

• Jacqueline Brumaire at Operissimo  on the basis of the Great Singer Lexicon