Rhodes, Jane (Marie Andrée)
Rhodes, Jane (Marie Andrée)
Rhodes, Jane (Marie Andrée) , French mezzo-soprano; b. Paris, March 13, 1929. Following vocal studies, she made her debut as Marguerite in La Damnation de Faust in Nancy in 1953, which role she also chose for her first appearance at the Paris Opéra in 1958. On Nov. 15, 1960, she made her Metropolitan Opera debut in N.Y. as Carmen, returning to sing Salome in 1962. In 1961 she appeared at the Aix-en-Provence Festival and in 1968 at the Paris Opéra-Comique; also sang in various other French operatic centers, and in Buenos Aires and Tokyo. In 1966 she married Roberto Benzi. In addition to her French roles, Rhodes also essayed the roles of Tosca and Renata in Prokofiev’s The Fiery Angel.
—Nicolas Slonimsky/Laura Kuhn/Dennis McIntire
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