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Mary Jarred (9 October 1899 – 12 December 1993) was an English
English people

The English are a nation and ethnic group native to England who speak English language in England. The English identity as a people is of early medieval origin, when they were known in Old English as the Anglecynn....
 opera singer of the mid-twentieth century. She is sometimes classed as a mezzo-soprano
Mezzo-soprano

A mezzo-soprano is a type of European classical music female voice type whose range lies between the soprano and the contralto singing voices, usually extending from the A below middle C to the A two octaves above ....
 and sometimes as a contralto
Alto

Alto is a musical term, derived from the Latin word altus, meaning "high", that has several possible interpretations.When designating instruments, "alto" frequently refers to a member of an instrumental family that has the second highest range, below that of the treble or soprano....
.

ed was born in Brotton
Brotton

Brotton is a village in the parish of Skelton and Brotton, in the unitary authority of Redcar and Cleveland and ceremonial county of North Yorkshire, England....
, Yorkshire
Yorkshire

Yorkshire is a Historic counties of England of northern England and the largest in Great Britain. Because of its great size, over time functions were increasingly undertaken by its subdivisions, which have been subject to History of local government in Yorkshire....
, England.

r studying at the Royal College of Music
Royal College of Music

The Royal College of Music is a college or university school of music located in the South Kensington district of London, England, and historically one of the most influential music institutions in Europe....
, Jarred she sang minor roles at Covent Garden
Royal Opera House

The Royal Opera House is an opera house and major performing arts venue in the London district of Covent Garden. The large building, often referred to as simply "Covent Garden", is the home of Royal Opera, London , Royal Ballet, London and the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House....
 beginning in 1929. On the recommendation of Lauritz Melchior
Lauritz Melchior

Lauritz Melchior was a Danish people and later American opera singer. He was the pre-eminent Wagnerian tenor of the late 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s, and has since come to be considered the quintessence of his voice type....
, she was invited to the Hamburg State Opera
Hamburg State Opera

The Hamburg State Opera is one of the leading opera companies in Germany.Opera in Hamburg dates back to 2 January 1678 in music when the "Opern-Theatrum" was inaugurated with a performance of a biblical Singspiel by Johann Theile....
 and remained there as a guest artist for the following three years.






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Mary Jarred (9 October 1899 – 12 December 1993) was an English
English people

The English are a nation and ethnic group native to England who speak English language in England. The English identity as a people is of early medieval origin, when they were known in Old English as the Anglecynn....
 opera singer of the mid-twentieth century. She is sometimes classed as a mezzo-soprano
Mezzo-soprano

A mezzo-soprano is a type of European classical music female voice type whose range lies between the soprano and the contralto singing voices, usually extending from the A below middle C to the A two octaves above ....
 and sometimes as a contralto
Alto

Alto is a musical term, derived from the Latin word altus, meaning "high", that has several possible interpretations.When designating instruments, "alto" frequently refers to a member of an instrumental family that has the second highest range, below that of the treble or soprano....
.

Biography

Jarred was born in Brotton
Brotton

Brotton is a village in the parish of Skelton and Brotton, in the unitary authority of Redcar and Cleveland and ceremonial county of North Yorkshire, England....
, Yorkshire
Yorkshire

Yorkshire is a Historic counties of England of northern England and the largest in Great Britain. Because of its great size, over time functions were increasingly undertaken by its subdivisions, which have been subject to History of local government in Yorkshire....
, England.

Opera

After studying at the Royal College of Music
Royal College of Music

The Royal College of Music is a college or university school of music located in the South Kensington district of London, England, and historically one of the most influential music institutions in Europe....
, Jarred she sang minor roles at Covent Garden
Royal Opera House

The Royal Opera House is an opera house and major performing arts venue in the London district of Covent Garden. The large building, often referred to as simply "Covent Garden", is the home of Royal Opera, London , Royal Ballet, London and the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House....
 beginning in 1929. On the recommendation of Lauritz Melchior
Lauritz Melchior

Lauritz Melchior was a Danish people and later American opera singer. He was the pre-eminent Wagnerian tenor of the late 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s, and has since come to be considered the quintessence of his voice type....
, she was invited to the Hamburg State Opera
Hamburg State Opera

The Hamburg State Opera is one of the leading opera companies in Germany.Opera in Hamburg dates back to 2 January 1678 in music when the "Opern-Theatrum" was inaugurated with a performance of a biblical Singspiel by Johann Theile....
 and remained there as a guest artist for the following three years. Her roles included the Nurse in Richard Strauss
Richard Strauss

Richard Georg Strauss was a German composer of the late Romantic music and early modern eras, particularly of operas, Lieder and tone poems. Strauss was also a prominent Conducting....
's Die Frau ohne Schatten
Die Frau ohne Schatten

Die Frau ohne Schatten is an opera in three acts by Richard Strauss with a libretto by his long-time collaborator, the poet Hugo von Hofmannsthal....
 and several in contemporary works by Hans Pfitzner
Hans Pfitzner

Hans Erich Pfitzner was a Germany composer and self-described anti-Modernism . His best known work is the opera Palestrina , loosely based on the life of the great sixteenth-century composer Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina....
 and Alban Berg
Alban Berg

Alban Maria Johannes Berg was an Austrian composer. He was a member of the Second Viennese School with Arnold Schoenberg and Anton Webern, and produced compositions that combined Gustav Mahler Romantic music with a personal adaptation of Schoenberg's twelve-tone technique....
. In 1933, she sang Orpheus in Gluck's Orpheus and Eurydice
Orpheus and Eurydice

Orpheus and Eurydice is a tale from Greek legend. Works making holistic use of this legend include:...
 for Sadler's Wells Opera.

At Covent Garden she sang every year from 1933 until 1939, when the theatre closed at the outbreak of war. She sang Erda in Das Rheingold
Das Rheingold

Das Rheingold is the first of the four operas that comprise Der Ring des Nibelungen , by Richard Wagner. Das Rheingold was originally written as an introduction to the 3 part Ring, however most people usually regard the 4 parts as equals....
 and Siegfried
Siegfried (opera)

Siegfried is the third of the four operas that comprise Der Ring des Nibelungen , by Richard Wagner. It received its premiere at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus on 16 August 1876, as part of the first complete performance of The Ring....
, and Fricka in Die Walküre
Die Walküre

Die Walk?re is the second of the four operas that comprise Der Ring des Nibelungen , by Richard Wagner. It is the source of the famous piece Ride of the Valkyries....
. In 1934, she sang Margret in the first British broadcast performance of Wozzeck
Wozzeck

Wozzeck is the first opera by the Austrian composer Alban Berg. It was composed between 1914 and 1922 and first performed in 1925. Since then it has established a solid place for itself in the mainstream operatic tradition, and modern productions are consistently sold out....
 for the BBC, conducted by Adrian Boult
Adrian Boult

Sir Adrian Cedric Boult Order of the Companions of Honour was an English Conducting....
. During and immediately after the Second World War, Jarred performed in recitals and concerts. She returned to opera in 1953, as the brothel keeper in the British stage première of Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress
The Rake's Progress

The Rake's Progress is an opera in three acts and an epilogue by Igor Stravinsky. The libretto written by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman is based loosely on the eight paintings and engravings A Rake's Progress of William Hogarth, which Stravinsky had seen on May 2, 1947, in a Chicago exhibition....


Concerts and later years

In concert, she was famed as contralto
Contralto

In music, a contralto is a type of European classical music female voice type with a vocal range somewhere between a tenor and a mezzo-soprano. The term is used to refer to the deepest female singing voice....
 soloist in Handel
HANDEL

HANDEL was the code-name for the United Kingdom's National Attack Warning System in the Cold War. It consisted of a small console consisting of two microphones, lights and gauges....
's Messiah
Messiah (Handel)

Messiah is an oratorio by George Frideric Handel based on a libretto by Charles Jennens. Composed in the summer of 1741 and premiered in Dublin on the 13 April 1742, Messiah is Handel's most famous creation and is among the most popular works in Western choral literature....
, Bach's St Matthew Passion, Mendelssohn's Elijah
Elijah (oratorio)

Elijah is an oratorio written by Felix Mendelssohn in 1846 for the Birmingham Triennial Music Festival. It depicts various events in the life of the Biblical prophet Elijah, taken from the books 1 Kings and 2 Kings in the Old Testament....
 and Beethoven's Choral Symphony
Symphony No. 9 (Beethoven)

The Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Opus number 125 "Choral" is the last complete symphony composed by Ludwig van Beethoven. Completed in 1824, the choral symphony Ninth Symphony is one of the best known works of the Western repertoire, considered both an icon and a forefather of Romantic music, and one of Beethoven's greatest masterpieces....
. She was also a well-known Angel in Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius
The Dream of Gerontius

The Dream of Gerontius, popularly called just Gerontius, is an oratorio in two parts composed by Edward Elgar in 1900, to text from the The Dream of Gerontius by Cardinal Newman....
. The Times commented: "In all these parts her commitment, sincerity and warmth of personality were abundantly evident." On 5 October 1938, she was one of the original 16 singers in Vaughan Williams's Serenade to Music
Serenade to Music

The Serenade to Music is a setting by Ralph Vaughan Williams for 16 vocal soloists and orchestra. The composer drew the text from the discussion about music and the Musica universalis in Act V, scene 1 of The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare....
.

After her retirement, she was a professor at the Royal Academy of Music
Royal Academy of Music

The Royal Academy of Music in London, England, is a college or university school of music, Britian's oldest degree-granting music school and a constituent college of the University of London since 1999....
 from 1965 to 1973. Along with Eva Turner
Eva Turner

Dame Eva Turner Order of the British Empire was a dramatic soprano whose well-trained voice was renowned for its clarion power.Born in Werneth, Oldham, England, her first formal singing lessons were with Dan Rootham, the teacher of Clara Butt....
 and Roy Henderson
Roy Henderson

Roy Galbraith Henderson, Order of the British Empire was a leading England baritone in the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s. He later became a great teacher of singing, and was the teacher of Kathleen Ferrier....
, Mary Jarred took part in a BBC Radio broadcast written and presented by John Steane in 1989 celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Serenade to Music.

Jarred died at the age of 94.

Recordings

Jarred's recordings include the following:
  • Bedrich Smetana
    Bedrich Smetana

    Bedrich Smetana was a Czechs composer, one of the most significant that his country has ever produced. He is best known for his symphonic poem The_Moldau#Vltava , the second in a cycle of six which he entitled M? vlast , and for his opera The Bartered Bride....
    : The Bartered Bride
    The Bartered Bride

    The Bartered Bride is the second opera, a comedy in three acts, by Bedrich Smetana. The Czech libretto was written by Karel Sabina, who had also written the libretto for Brandenburgers in Bohemia....
     Marko Rothmüller (baritone
    Baritone

    Baritone is a type of European classical music male voice type that lies between the bass and tenor voices. It is the most common male voice....
    ), Sabine Kalter (mezzo soprano), Stella Andreva (soprano
    Soprano

    A soprano is a voice type with a vocal range from approximately to "high A" in choral music, or to "soprano C" or higher in operatic music. In four part chorale style harmony the soprano takes the highest part which usually encompasses the melody....
    ), Heinrich Tessmer (tenor
    Tenor

    The tenor is a type of male voice type and is the highest male voice within the modal register. The typical tenor voice lies between the C one octave below middle C to the A above in choral music, and up to high C in solo work....
    ), Fritz Krenn (bass), Richard Tauber
    Richard Tauber

    Richard Tauber was an Austrian tenor acclaimed as one of the greatest singers of the 20th century. Some critics commented that "his heart felt every word he sang"....
    , Mary Jarred (mezzo soprano), Arnold Matters (bass), Hilde Konetzni (soprano), London Philharmonic Orchestra
    London Philharmonic Orchestra

    The London Philharmonic Orchestra , based in London, is one of the major orchestras of the United Kingdom, and is based in the Royal Festival Hall....
    , Royal Opera House Covent Garden Chorus, Sir Thomas Beecham
    Thomas Beecham

    Sir Thomas Beecham, 2nd Baronet, Order of the Companions of Honour was a British people Conducting and impresario. From the early twentieth century until his death, Beecham was a major influence on the musical life of Britain and, according to Neville Cardus, was the first British conductor to have a regular international career....
     (conductor), Somm 14
  • Richard Wagner
    Richard Wagner

    Wilhelm Richard Wagner was a German composer, Conducting, theatre director and essayist, primarily known for his operas . Unlike most other great opera composers, Wagner wrote both the scenario and libretto for his works....
    : Der Fliegende Holländer
    The Flying Dutchman (opera)

    Der fliegende Holl?nder is an opera, with music and libretto by Richard Wagner. The story comes from the The Flying Dutchman, about a ship captain condemned to sail until Last Judgment....
     - abridged     Ben Williams (tenor), Herbert Janssen
    Herbert Janssen

    Herbert Janssen was a German baritone....
     (baritone), Kirsten Flagstad
    Kirsten Flagstad

    Kirsten M?lfrid Flagstad was a Norway opera singer, one of the greatest Richard Wagner sopranos of the 20th century.A restrained and expressive stage performer, she was admired internationally for her voice's sheer tonal beauty, power, stamina, security and consistency of line and tone....
     (soprano), Ludwig Weber
    Ludwig Weber

    Ludwig Weber was an Austrians bass . He initially planned to pursue a career as a teacher and artist when he discovered his vocal promise and decided to pursue an opera career....
     (bass); Mary Jarred (contralto), Max Lorenz (tenor), Royal Opera House Chorus, Covent Garden Choir, London Philharmonic Orchestra
    London Philharmonic Orchestra

    The London Philharmonic Orchestra , based in London, is one of the major orchestras of the United Kingdom, and is based in the Royal Festival Hall....
    , Fritz Reiner
    Fritz Reiner

    Frederick Martin ?Fritz? Reiner was a prominent Conducting of opera and symphonic music in the twentieth century....
     (conductor), Standing Room Only
  • Ludwig van Beethoven
    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. He was a crucial figure in the transitional period between the Classical music era and Romantic music eras in classical music, and remains one of the most acclaimed and influential composers of all time....
    : Symphony No 9
    Symphony No. 9 (Beethoven)

    The Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Opus number 125 "Choral" is the last complete symphony composed by Ludwig van Beethoven. Completed in 1824, the choral symphony Ninth Symphony is one of the best known works of the Western repertoire, considered both an icon and a forefather of Romantic music, and one of Beethoven's greatest masterpieces....
    : Arturo Toscanini
    Arturo Toscanini

    Arturo Toscanini was an Italian people conductor. One of the most acclaimed musicians of the late 19th and 20th Centuries, he was renowned for his brilliant intensity, his restless perfectionism, his phenomenal ear for orchestral detail and sonority, and his photographic memory....
     conductor, BBC S.O., Isobel Baillie
    Isobel Baillie

    Dame Isobel Baillie, Order of the British Empire was a Scotland soprano, popular in opera, oratorio and lieder.She worked as an assistant in a music shop, then as a clerk in Manchester Town Hall, and made her debut with the Hall? Orchestra in 1921....
    , Mary Jarred, Parry Jones
    Gwynn Parry Jones

    Parry Jones , known early in his career as Gwynn Jones, was a Welsh tenor of the mid-twentieth century....
    , Harold Williams. Live performance, 3 November, 1937, Queen's Hall, London. Music & Arts 1144
  • Ludwig van Beethoven
    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. He was a crucial figure in the transitional period between the Classical music era and Romantic music eras in classical music, and remains one of the most acclaimed and influential composers of all time....
    : Mass in D Major, Missa Solemnis
    Missa Solemnis (Beethoven)

    The Missa solemnis in D Major, opus number 123 was composed by Ludwig van Beethoven from 1819-1823. It was first performed on April 7, 1824 in St....
    , Op. 123, London Philharmonic Orchestra
    London Philharmonic Orchestra

    The London Philharmonic Orchestra , based in London, is one of the major orchestras of the United Kingdom, and is based in the Royal Festival Hall....
    , Leeds Festival Chorus
    Leeds Festival Chorus

    The Leeds Festival Chorus is an amateur Choir in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, with 170 singing members in soprano, alto, tenor and Bass sections....
    , Isobel Baillie
    Isobel Baillie

    Dame Isobel Baillie, Order of the British Empire was a Scotland soprano, popular in opera, oratorio and lieder.She worked as an assistant in a music shop, then as a clerk in Manchester Town Hall, and made her debut with the Hall? Orchestra in 1921....
     soprano, Mary Jarred (contralto), Heddle Nash
    Heddle Nash

    Heddle Nash was an English tenor from London....
     tenor, Keith Faulkner (bass), Sir Thomas Beecham
    Thomas Beecham

    Sir Thomas Beecham, 2nd Baronet, Order of the Companions of Honour was a British people Conducting and impresario. From the early twentieth century until his death, Beecham was a major influence on the musical life of Britain and, according to Neville Cardus, was the first British conductor to have a regular international career....
     (conductor) Somm SOMM-BEECHAM 11
  • Mary Jarred, contralto; The BBC Orchestra, Section F; Clarence Raybould, conductor Elgar's Interpreters on Record, Volume 5: Broadcasts from the Leech Collection at the British Library (1935-1950) Elgar Society EECD003-005 (Sea Pictures
    Sea Pictures

    Sea Pictures, Op.37 is a song cycle by Sir Edward Elgar consisting of five songs written by various poets. It was set for contralto and orchestra, though a distinct version for piano was often performed by Elgar....
     "Sea Slumber Song
    Sea Slumber Song

    "Sea Slumber Song" is a poem by the Hon. Roden Noel set to music by Edward Elgar as the first song in his song-cycle Sea Pictures....
    " complete, "Sabbath Morning at Sea
    Sabbath Morning at Sea

    "Sabbath Morning at Sea" is a poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning set to music by Edward Elgar as the third song in his song-cycle Sea Pictures....
    " to bar 84, "The Swimmer
    The Swimmer

    "The Swimmer" a short story by American author John Cheever, published in 1964 in the short story collection The Brigadier and the Golf Widow....
    " bars between 74 and 107 are missing)