Jeannette Pilou

Jeannette Pilou was a Greek operatic soprano. A native of Alexandria, Pilou was born to Greek parents resident in Egypt. She underwent her initial vocal studies in the country of her birth before traveling to Italy to study under Carla Castellani. In 1959 she made her operatic debut at Milan's Teatro Smeraldo as Violetta. In 1964 she appeared in La bohème at the Vienna State Opera; she soon embarked upon an international career which took her to London, Brussels, Amsterdam, Hamburg, Hannover, Cologne, Genoa, Budapest, Paris, Barcelona, Lisbon, Chicago, New Orleans, Houston, Philadelphia and Buenos Aires. Pilou debuted at the Metropolitan Opera on 7 October 1967 singing the role of Juliette in Roméo et Juliette; during her career there she also sang Mimì in La bohème; Micaëla in Carmen; Zerlina in Don Giovanni; Nanetta in Falstaff; Marguerite in Faust; Cio-Cio-San in Madama Butterfly; Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro; Nedda in Pagliacci; Mélisande in Pelléas et Mélisande; and Violetta. For the Royal Opera House in 1971 she performed Cio-Cio-San. For Seattle Opera and Portland Opera she sang Marguerite in 1979. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeannet...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...)