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- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1918
- Active to
- 1972
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- Listeners
- 163
- Total plays
- 602
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Jean Madeira, née Jean Browning (born November 14, 1918, in Centralia, Illinois; died on 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. <a href="https://www.last.fm/
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Centralia
- Place of death
- Providence
- Occupation
- opera singer
- Field of work
- opera
- Instrument
- voice
- Record label
- Decca
- Image
- Jean Madeira by James Kriegsmann.jpg
- Voice type
- contralto
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- date of birth
- 1918-11-14
- date of death
- 1972-07-10
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- Jean Madeira
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