1. Jeanne Maubourg was a Belgian operatic mezzo-soprano.
14 Facts About Jeanne Maubourg
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Jeanne Maubourg sang with the Metropolitan Opera in New York from 1909 to 1914, taught voice in Montreal, and was heard in Canadian radio dramas in the 1930s and 1940s.
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Jeanne Maubourg was born Jeanne Elisabeth Goffaux in Namur, the daughter of Alexis Hippolyte Goffaux, a musical conductor, and Marie Anne Nottet.
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Jeanne Maubourg performed at London's Covent Garden for four seasons beginning in 1900.
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Jeanne Maubourg was a member of the Metropolitan Opera from 1909 to 1914.
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Jeanne Maubourg was in the cast when Arturo Toscanini conducted the American premiere of Gluck's Armide in 1910, sharing the stage with Enrico Caruso, Olive Fremstad, Louise Homer and Alma Gluck.
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Jeanne Maubourg was in the American premieres of Le donne curiose in 1912 and Boris Gudonov in 1913, both under Toscanini's baton.
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Jeanne Maubourg sang in an operetta on Broadway, The Lilac Domino.
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Jeanne Maubourg had a reputation for being an intelligent and good-natured performer.
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Jeanne Maubourg stayed in Montreal, and she was a member of the Canadian Operetta Society from 1923.
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Jeanne Maubourg taught voice students in Montreal, counting among her students Pierrette Alarie, Fleurette Beauchamp-Huppe, Estelle Mauffette, and Monique Leyrac.
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Jeanne Maubourg hosted a program on Radio Canada, and acted in the longrunning radio dramas La Pension Velder and Metropole.
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Jeanne Maubourg married her first husband, French opera singer Claude Marie Bede Benedict, in 1911.
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Jeanne Maubourg died in 1953, in Montreal, in her late seventies.