Jean Madeira, née Jean Browning (November 14, 1918, in Centralia, Illinois – July 10, 1972, in Providence, Rhode Island) was an American contralto, particularly known for her work in late-romantic German repertoire such as the operas of Richard Wagner and Richard Strauss.
When she was a child her family moved to East St. Louis, Illinois, where she attended high school, and she later studied with Florence Kimball at the Juilliard School in New York City. She made her debut in opera in Chatauqua, as Nancy in Martha, by Flotow. In 1955, the singer and actress successfully sang the title role in Carmen with the Vienna State Opera. She sang approximately 300 times at the Metropolitan Opera in forty-one roles, between 1948 and 1971. Her last appearance there was in Elektra, opposite Birgit Nilsson and Leonie Rysanek.[1][3] Jean Madeira was a second-cousin of the composer Amy Beth Kirsten.[citation needed]
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broadcast, January 22, 1955). Milanov, Richard Tucker, Josef Metternich, JeanMadeira, Roberta Peters; Dimitri Mitropoulos, Metropolitan Opera Verdi: Un ballo...
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Elektra (1957, conducted by Mitropoulos, with Inge Borkh, Della Casa, JeanMadeira, Max Lorenz, Kurt Böhme), Simon Boccanegra (1961, with Gianandrea Gavazzeni...
Ludwig Suthaus, Astrid Varnay, Gré Brouwenstijn, Georgine von Milinkovič, JeanMadeira, Hans Hotter, Gustav Neidlinger, Josef Greindl, Maria von Ilosvay. Recorded...
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von Halem) Demodoco – tenor (Helmuth Melchert) Circe – mezzo-soprano (JeanMadeira) La madre di Anticlea ("mother of Anticlea") – soprano (Hildegard Hillebrecht)...
Régine Crespin, Rita Gorr, Leonie Rysanek, Regina Resnik, Birgit Nilsson, JeanMadeira, Grace Hoffman, Franz Crass, Victoria de los Ángeles, Grace Bumbry, Christa...
December 1929 Franco Corelli 369 tenor 27 January 1961 28 June 1975 JeanMadeira 369 mezzo-soprano 2 December 1948 27 February 1971 Nicolai Gedda 367...
and chorus CD: VAI Cat: VAIA 1220 1949 Eleanor Steber, Richard Tucker, JeanMadeira, Giuseppe Valdengo Max Rudolf Metropolitan Opera orchestra and chorus...
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