Mado Robin
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( b Yseures-sur-Creuse , nr Tours, 29Dec1918; d Paris , 10Dec1960). French soprano. She studied in Paris, where she made her début at the Opéra in 1945 as Gilda (Rigoletto) and also sang the Queen of Night. The following year she sang Lakmé at the Opéra-Comique, followed by Rosina (Il barbiere di Siviglia) and Olympia (Les contes d’Hoffmann). She appeared at many French regional theatres, in Brussels and in Monte Carlo. In 1953 she returned to the Opéra to sing Konstanze (Die Entführung), and in 1954 she sang in San Francisco, as Gilda and Lucia. Her extreme facility for coloratura and very high range were best displayed in roles such as Igor Stravinsky's Nightingale.
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| Mado Robin | |
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| Birth name | Madeleine Marie Robin |
| Born | December 29, 1918 |
| Died | December 10, 1960 (aged 41) |
| Genres | Opera |
Madeleine Marie Robin, known as Mado Robin (29 December 1918 – 10 December 1960), was a French coloratura soprano.
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Early life
Robin was born in Yzeures-sur-Creuse, Touraine, where she owned the Château Les Vallées.
Career
A star of television and radio in the 1950s, she was well known in France. Among her roles were Lakmé, which she recorded for Decca Records in 1952 (with GeorgesSébastian conducting), Lucia di Lammermoor, Olympia in The Tales of Hoffmann, Gilda in Rigoletto, Rosina in The Barber of Seville, and Leyla in Les pêcheurs de perles. In 1954, she went to San Francisco to sing Lucia and Gilda, and had a successful tour of the Soviet Union with sixteen concerts over a few weeks.
She hit D above double-high C in live performance in Vichy (D7 in scientific pitch notation or about 2349 Hz[citation needed]).
Personal life
At age 17, she married Alan Smith, an Englishman, who died shortly after World War II in a car crash. She had one daughter.
Death and honors
Mado died in Paris in 1960 from cancer (some sources state liver cancer, others leukaemia) a few days before the 1500th performance of Lakmé at the Opéra-Comique, which had organized the event for her birthday.
A museum to her life opened in her home town in 2009.
Videography
In 1994, the Bel Canto Society released a video-cassette of her performances, entitled "Mado Robin Live!": Included are excerpts from Lakmé, Mireille, Rigoletto, Hamlet, Il barbiere di Siviglia and Lucia di Lammermoor.
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