Mady Mesplé

Mady Mesplé was a fine French lyric coloratura soprano who was active from the late 1950s through the 1980s. Her operatic career was centered on the core coloratura roles, including Verdi's Rigoletto, Offenbach's Tales of Hoffmann, Rossini's The Barber of Seville, Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor, and Mozart's The Magic Flute, but she was best remembered for the title role in Delibes' Lakmé. Many consider her EMI recording of that signature role to be definitive. She also excelled in performances of new works, and as a recitalist. Mesplé was born in Toulouse in 1931. She atten...