Jacqueline Angélique Julie Laure Seveste called Madame Normand (7 August 1844 – 13 December 1927) was a 19th-century French opera singer.

Biography

Born in

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, the daughter of

Jules Seveste Jules Seveste, full name Désiré Henri Jules Seveste, (Paris, 1803 – Meudon, 30 June 1854 ) was a French playwright and theatre manager of the first half of the 19th century. Short biography In 1822 his father Pierre Seveste (1773–1825) ap ...

and sister of . Seveste was raised at the

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where she graduated as a teacher (1862). She entered the

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in 1865 and made her debut at the Opéra-Comique in September 1866 as mezzo-soprano. In 1871, she performed in Cairo then sang at the Théâtre de la Gaîté in ''

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'' (1872) before being engaged in January 1875 at the Royal Theater of The Hague where she obtained great success in the main roles of operas and opéras comiques. She also toured around the provinces and performed at the casino of

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and in Moulins to help the flooded. In 1875-1876, she entered the Theatre of Montpellier. On 25 June 1888, she married . After the death of her husband in 1896, she founded and financed at her home on 12 quai Ernest-Renaud in Nantes, a kindergarten for about fifty children per day. Chevalier of the

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(14 February 1910), she died in Nantes on 13 December 1927.

Bibliography

* : ''Le Théâtre lyrique sous les frères Seveste'', ''Bulletin de la '' n° 192, August 2016,

External links

Jacqueline Seveste on ''artlyriquefe.fr''
{{DEFAULTSORT:Seveste, Jacqueline 1844 births Singers from Paris 1927 deaths French operatic mezzo-sopranos Conservatoire de Paris alumni 19th-century French women opera singers Chevaliers of the Légion d'honneur