Jane Bathori

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Jane Bathori , actually Jeanne-Marie Berthier (born June 14, 1877 in Paris ; † January 25, 1970 ibid) was a French opera singer (soprano).

Life

Bathori began training as a concert pianist with Hortense Parent , but then switched to singing. She made her debut in 1898 at the Théâtre de la Bodinière with songs based on Paul Verlaine by Reynaldo Hahn . She was close friends with him, and she sang several premieres of his compositions. In the same year she appeared at the Concerts du Conservatoire in Mendelssohn's Midsummer Night's Dream . The following year she sang at the Concerts du Conservatoire in Gabriel Fauré's La Naissance de Vénus and Camille Saint-Saëns ' Messe de Requiem as well as works by Renée Eldèse , Pierre de Bréville , Alice Sauvrezis , Charles Silver , Florent Schmitt , Ernest at concerts in the Salle Playel Chausson and Charles de Granval . In the 1899–1900 season she made her debut in Nantes as an opera singer.

After the turn of the century she took lessons from the singer Emile Engel , whom she married in 1905. In 1902 she appeared at the Teatro alla Scala alongside Amelia Pinto , Enrico Caruso , Giovanni Gravina and Mario Sammarco and under the direction of Arturo Toscanini in the world premiere of Alberto Franchetti's Germania . In 1905 she made her debut in London with songs by Albert Roussel , in the same year she gave a recital with Alfred Cortot in Paris with songs by Roussel.

In 1906 she sang the world premiere of Maurice Ravel's Histoires naturelles at the Société Nationale , in 1908 the French premiere of Gabriel Pierné's Croisade des Enfants (with Auguez de Montalant , Charlotte Mellot-Joubert , Catherine Mastio , Emile Cazeneuve and the actor Léon Brémont at the Concerts Colonne ) ), 1910 at the Théâtre des Annales Claude Debussys Promenoir des deux amants and 1913 at the Société Nationale Indépendante Maurice Ravel's Trois Poèmes de Mallarmé . During the First World War, she directed the Théâtre du Vieux Colombiers on behalf of Jacques Copeau , where she performed Hahn's Pastorale de Noël (under the direction of Walter Straram ) in 1918 . In 1919 she sang the world premiere of Eric Satie's symphonic drama Socrate .

She first traveled to Argentina in 1926 . At the Teatro Colón she sang the Concepción in Ravel's L'Heure espagnole in 1933 . During the Second World War she lived and worked in Buenos Aires . After the war she returned to France and worked there as a singing teacher.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Girard, Victor. [1] Marston Records, 1998

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personal data
SURNAME Bathori, Jane
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Berthier, Jeanne-Marie (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French opera singer (soprano)
DATE OF BIRTH June 14, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH January 25, 1970
Place of death Paris