Jacqueline Brumaire

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Jacqueline Brumaire (born

Herblay, 5 November 1921, died in Nancy 29 October 2000) was a French operatic soprano
and later teacher.

Life and career

After training at the

Gounod's opera under the same title.[2]

She sang Emma Bovary in the 1951 Opéra-Comique premiere of the opera

La Traviata. She also performed in the other main opera houses in France: Marseille, Nice, Bordeaux, Strasbourg, Lyon and Toulouse. In 1956 she debuted at La Scala, Milan as Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte, in 1957 as Louise in the opera of the same name by Charpentier, in the season of 1956-57 as Concepción in L'heure espagnole by Maurice Ravel
.

She appeared as a guest in

Massenet) and in Oran (1961). In 1962 she took part in Toulouse at the premiere of the opera Hop! Signor by Manuel Rosenthal
.

She sang the title role in

Massenet on 19 November 1963 during the concert performance of that opera for RTF (Radiodiffusion-Télévision Française).[3] In 1969 she sang the role of Hélen (Elena) during the concert performance of Les vêpres siciliennes which was made available as a commercial recording.[4]

From her other versatile stage repertoire, she sang Konstanze in

Prokofiev (Opéra-Comique, 1967), and Béatrice in Un sguardo sul ponte by Renzo Rossellini
(Bordeaux 1965, possibly the first French performance of that opera).

In 1981 she started to teach at the Conservatoire in

People's Republic of China.[1] From 1992 up to her death she was a member of the Académie de Stanislas in Nancy. She published an autobiography La Baraka ou si Jacqueline Brumaire m'était contée.[5]

Discography

Her recordings include albums collections of various arias for

Massenet's Thaïs
. In 1952 she sang the soprano part in the recording of Mozart's Coronation Mass by the Pasdeloup Orchestra directed by Alphonse Hoch, Pathe 33 DT 1015

References

  1. ^ a b Alain Pâris, Dictionnaire des interprètes et de l'interpretation musicale au XX siècle. Éditions Robert Laffont, Paris, 1995, (p262).
  2. ^ Wolff S. Un demi-siècle d'Opéra-Comique (1900–1950). André Bonne, Paris, 1953.
  3. ^ Casaglia, Gherardo (2005). "Almanac entry for Esclarmonde performance with Jacqueline Brumaire". L'Almanacco di Gherardo Casaglia (in Italian).
  4. ^ Les vêpres siciliennes (BBC/Opera Rara) accessed 5 January 2016.
  5. ^ Nancy, Bialec S.A., 2000.
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