Jacqueline Brumaire

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

Brumaire studied at the Conservatoire de Paris at Madeleine Mathieu. In 1946 she made ​​her debut at the Opéra -Comique as the Countess in Mozart's Marriage of Figaro. As a lyric soprano, she sang here with Mozart's operas, among others Mimi in Puccini's La Bohème, Micaela in Georges Bizet's Carmen, the title roles in Jules Massenet's Manon and Charles Gounod's Mireille, the Antonia in Offenbach's The Tales of Hoffmann and 1951, the Emma in the premiere of Emmanuel Bonde Villes 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, she joined in 1956 as Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte and 1957 in the title role of Gustave Charpentier's Louise.

She has performed in Johannesburg, Prague, Liege and Oran and took in 1962 in Toulouse at the premiere of the opera Hop! Signor part by Manuel Rosenthal. In 1970, she retired from opera business and became a professor of singing at the Conservatory of Nancy. In 1981 she studied with Chinese singers a performance of Carmen in Beijing.

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

  • Soprano
  • Opera singer
  • French musicians
  • Carrier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres ( Knight )
  • Support of the French National Order of Merit ( Knight )
  • Born 1921
  • Died in 2000
  • Woman
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