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After retiring from the stage, she started teaching. Mespl\u00e9 was the archetype of a light coloratura soprano: technically secure, musically distinctive, and with a charming stage presence. When she developed Parkinson’s disease in the mid-1990s, she responded by writing a book about her career and the development of her illness.       (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});after-content-x4Table of ContentsBiography[edit]References[edit]Cited sources[edit]External links[edit]Biography[edit]Born Madeleine Mespl\u00e9 in Toulouse on 7 March 1931, she came from a modest family background. Her father Pierre was an accountant and her mother Yvonne (Sesquiere) a secretary.[2] She took up music at the age of four, and her mother’s recognition of her promise, confirmed by a teacher, led her to attend the music conservatory of her native city\u00a0[fr] from the age of seven.[3]She studied piano and voice, graduating with a gold medal. She played the piano in a local ballroom orchestra for a while and later left for Paris for complementary voice lessons with French soprano Janine Micheau.[4]Mespl\u00e9 made her professional debut in Li\u00e8ge in January 1953, in the title role of Lakm\u00e9 by Delibes, a role with which she remained closely associated throughout her career, singing it an estimated 145 times.[3][4] Lakm\u00e9 was also her debut role at La Monnaie in Brussels in 1954. She quickly established herself in the standard lyric and coloratura roles of the French repertoire, such as Olympia in The Tales of Hoffmann, Philline in Mignon, Leila in Les p\u00eacheurs de perles, Juliette in Rom\u00e9o et Juliette, Oph\u00e9lie in Hamlet, the title roles of Dinorah and Manon, and Sophie in Werther.[3][4]She made her debut at the Aix-en-Provence Festival in 1956, as Z\u00e9mire in Gr\u00e9try’s Z\u00e9mire et Azor.[5] The same year she first sang at the Op\u00e9ra-Comique, again as Lakm\u00e9. Her Palais Garnier debut took place in 1958, as Constance in Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carm\u00e9lites. There in 1960, she took over from Joan Sutherland in a new production of Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor.[4] Other Italian roles included Amina in Bellini’s La sonnambula, Rosina in Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia, Norina in Donizetti’s Don Pasquale and Gilda in Verdi’s Rigoletto.[4][5] She sang only a few German roles: the Queen of the Night in Mozart’s Die Zauberfl\u00f6te, Sophie in Der Rosenkavalier, and Zerbinetta in Ariadne auf Naxos, both by Richard Strauss.[4]       (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});after-content-x4Mespl\u00e9 also enjoyed a successful career abroad, appearing at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, the Royal Opera House in London, La Scala in Milan,[3] the Metropolitan Opera in New York, where she appeared as Gilda,[5] and Teatro Col\u00f3n in Buenos Aires, where she sang the role of Olympia.[3]During the 1960s, Mespl\u00e9 appeared frequently on French television and started exploring works by contemporary musicians. Charles Chaynes composed his Four Poems of Sappho for her,[1] and in 1963 she appeared as Kitty in the French premiere of Gian Carlo Menotti’s The Last Savage.[5] She was also the first to sing the French version of Henze’s Elegy for Young Lovers in 1965, and Pierre Boulez chose Mespl\u00e9 for his performances of Schoenberg’s Jacob’s Ladder.[1][6]During the 1970s she added operettas to her repertoire, especially by Jacques Offenbach, such as La Vie parisienne, Orph\u00e9e aux enfers and La Grande-Duchesse de G\u00e9rolstein, opposite R\u00e9gine Crespin.[7]Mespl\u00e9 retired from the stage in 1985 and turned to teaching at the \u00c9cole Normale de Musique de Paris and at the Music Conservatory of Lyon.[3][4] After her retirement, she continued to perform recitals until the early 1990s.[2]Mespl\u00e9 left a discography encompassing opera, operetta, and m\u00e9lodies, including complete opera and operetta recordings of rarely performed works such as Auber’s Fra Diavolo and Manon Lescaut, Lecocq’s La fille de Madame Angot, Planquette’s Les cloches de Corneville, Ganne’s Les saltimbanques, Messager’s V\u00e9ronique, and Hahn’s Ciboulette.[8][1] She recorded Lakm\u00e9, alongside Charles Burles and Roger Soyer, conducted by Alain Lombard.[4]The archetype of the light French coloratura soprano, Mady Mespl\u00e9 was noted for her technical security, musical refinement and charming stage presence. Her voice was particularly recognisable for its quick vibrato, intensely focused intonation, the instrumental-like quality of her runs and an amazing upper register extending easily to high A-flat.[4][1] The French baritone Ludovic T\u00e9zier tweeted after her death: “Mady Mespl\u00e9 s’est envol\u00e9e, l\u00e9g\u00e8re comme l’\u00e9l\u00e9gance“.[3] (“Mady Mespl\u00e9 has flown away, lightly as elegance”.)In the mid-1990s, Mespl\u00e9 began suffering from Parkinson’s disease, leading her to work closely with the “Association France Parkinson” and to write a book, entitled La Voix du Corps (“The Voice of the Body”), about her career and the development of her illness.[1][9] She died on 30 May 2020 in her native Toulouse.[3][4]References[edit]^ a b c d e f Steinson, Paul (February 2018). “Mady Mespl\u00e9 (soprano) – A Portrait”. musicweb-international.com. Retrieved 31 May 2020.^ a b “Mady Mespl\u00e9, French Soprano With a Silvery Voice, Dies at 89,” The New York Times, June 18, 2020.^ a b c d e f g h Hill\u00e9riteau, Thierry (31 May 2020). “Mort de Mady Mespl\u00e9, grande voix du Sud, \u00e0 89 ans”. Le Figaro (in French). Retrieved 31 May 2020.^ a b c d e f g h i j “The French soprano Mady Mespl\u00e9 has died”. Gramophone. MA Business and Leisure Ltd. 31 May 2020. Retrieved 31 May 2020.^ a b c d Loppert, Max; Forbes, Elizabeth (2008). “Mespl\u00e9, Mady”.  In Macy, Laura (ed.). The Grove Book of Opera Singers. Oxford University Press. p.\u00a0320. ISBN\u00a0978-0-19-533765-5.^ Schrott, Allen. “Mady Mespl\u00e9”. AllMusic. Retrieved 31 May 2020.^ Parouty, Michel (2015). R\u00e9gine Crespin. Dictionnaire des Musiciens. p.\u00a0107. ISBN\u00a0978-2-85-229140-9.^ Forsling, G\u00f6ran (November 2007). “Mady Mespl\u00e9 – Airs d’Operettes”. musicweb-international.com. Retrieved 31 May 2020.^ Mespl\u00e9, Mady (2010). La voix du corps – Vivre avec la maladie de Parkinson. Neuilly-sur-Seine Cedex: Michel Lafon. ISBN\u00a0978-2749912776.^ Marinesque, Didier (18 October 2011). “Mady Mespl\u00e9\u00a0: un talent r\u00e9compens\u00e9”. Toulouseinfos.fr.^ Hennequin, Annie (15 March 2009). “Toulouse. La cantatrice toulousaine Mady Mespl\u00e9 honor\u00e9e hier par la ministre de la culture”. La D\u00e9p\u00eache du Midi.^ “L\u00e9gion d’honneur: Jean Todt promu”. Le Figaro. AFP. 14 July 2011.^ “Toulouse. La L\u00e9gion d’Honneur pour Mady Mespl\u00e9”. La D\u00e9p\u00eache du Midi. 23 December 2011.^ Lemarchand, Jean-Louis (28 November 2011). “Roy Haynes couronn\u00e9 par l’Acad\u00e9mie Charles Cros”. La Tribune.^ “L\u00e9gion d’honneur\u00a0: 691 m\u00e9daill\u00e9s en ce 1er janvier”. Le Figaro. 1 January 2015.^ “Pamiers. L’Appam\u00e9enne de c\u0153ur Mady Mespl\u00e9 promue grand officier”. La D\u00e9p\u00eache du Midi. 15 January 2015.^ “Toulouse. La soprano Mady Mespl\u00e9 promue au plus haut rang de l’Ordre national du m\u00e9rite”. actu.fr. 30 May 2019.Cited sources[edit]Alain P\u00e2ris, Dictionnaire des interpr\u00e8tes et de l\u2019interpr\u00e9tation musicale au XX si\u00e8cle (2 vols), \u00c9ditions Robert Laffont (Bouquins, Paris 1982, 4th Edn. 1995, 5th Edn 2004). ISBN\u00a02-221-06660-XRoland Mancini and Jean-Jacques Rouveroux,  (orig. H. Rosenthal and J. Warrack, French edition), Guide de l\u2019op\u00e9ra, Les indispensables de la musique (Fayard, 1995). 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