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Jennie Tourel

 

Russian-American   Mezzo Soprano Jennie Tourel w George REeves piano in Polish 

Composer: CHOPIN (arr. Liszt) The Maiden's Wish. (Zyczenie); My Joy. (Moja Pieszczotka)/  Melancholie. (Niema Czego Trzeba)

Performer: Jennie Tourel, mezzo-soprano, George Reeves, piano, 

CatNum: 72870-M
Date: 1949-02-28
Venue: New York, Columbia 30th Street Studio
Label: Columbia

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Jennie Tourel (22 June 1900 (N.S.) [1] - 23 November 1973) was a Russian-American operatic mezzo-soprano, known for her work in both opera and recital performances.

Jennie TourelBorn in Vitebsk, Russia (now Belarus), with the surname Davidovich, as a young girl she played the flute, then studied piano. After the Revolution, her Jewish family left Russia and settled temporarily near Danzig. They later moved to Paris, where she continued to study piano and contemplated a concert career. She then began to take voice lessons with Anna El-Tour, and decided to devote herself to professional singing. She allegedly changed her last name to Tourel by transposing the syllables of her teacher’s name.

Jennie Tourel made her European operatic debut at the Opéra Russe in Paris in 1931, and subsequently sang at the Opéra-Comique in Paris as Carmen (9 April 1933) also singing Mignon, Jacqueline (Le médecin malgré lui), Djamileh in 1938, Charlotte (Werther) and Marcelina (The Marriage of Figaro) in 1940. She created three roles at the Salle Favart: Labryssa in Tout Ank Amon (5 May 1934), Missouf in Zadig (24 June 1938) and Zouz in La nuit embaumée (25 March 1939).[2]

She made her American début at the Chicago Civic Opera in Ernest Moret’s Lorenzaccio in 1930. Her career at the Metropolitan Opera was brief: she made her debut in May 1937, as Mignon, and appeared for a few seasons in the 1940s as Rosina, Adalgisa and Carmen.

In 1937, just before the occupation of Paris by Nazi troops, she went to Lisbon, and eventually emigrated to the United States. She became a naturalized American citizen in 1946. In 1951 she created the role of Baba the Turk in Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress. She gave the first performances of songs by Leonard Bernstein (including the song cycles I Hate Music, 1943, and La Bonne Cuisine, 1949), Francis Poulenc and Paul Hindemith (notably the revised Marienleben cycle, 1949).

In later years, Jennie Tourel devoted herself to recitals and orchestra engagements, excelling particularly in French repertoire. She also taught at the Juilliard School of Music in New York, and at the Aspen School of Music in Colorado. Her last opera performance was as Doña Marta in the world premiere of Thomas Pasatieri's Black Widow at the Seattle Opera in 1972. She died on November 23, 1973, in New York City.

 

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