Jane Maubourg

as Hansel "Hansel & Gretel ' Humperdinck

Jane Maubourg
(Jeanne Mauborg)
1873-1953
Belgian Contralto

Studied with her father Alexis Maubourg, conductor at St. Hubert Galleries Theater in Belgium . Continued her training in Nancy , then in Algiers and finally in Paris where she studied drama with Maurice de FéraudyIn 1897, she entered the Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels. From 1900, she made four seasons at Covent Garden in London and in 1909, at the Metropolitan Opera in New York where she debuts as Lola in Cavalleria Rusticana "remained there until 1914, She sang Phenicia in the American premiere of the opera "Armide" Gluck on 14 November 1910 Roles included Musetta (La Bohème), Hansel , Carmen.Lola ( Cavalleria Rusticana )