Garden, Mary
(1874–1967)
Garden, MaryGarden, MaryMary Garden (B ABERDEEN, * 1874 – D INVERURIE, † 1967) Mary Davidson, Scottish-born American soprano, made her debut at the Opéra-Comique in 1900 in the title role in Charpentier's (1860–1956) Louise (1900). She studied with noted French baritone Lucien Fugère (1848–1935). She was the first Mélisande in Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande (1902), which so enraged the playwright Maeterlinck (1862–1949), because he had envisioned his mistress Georgette Leblanc (1875–1941) in…