Crespin, Régine (1927–2007)

French soprano. She studied at the Paris Conservatory, and after making her debut in the provinces she appeared at the Paris Opéra in 1950 as Elsa in Wagner's Lohengrin. She performed at Bayreuth 1958–61, making her debut as Kundry in Wagner's Parsifal, and at Glyndebourne 1959–60 in Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier/The Cavalier of the Rose as the Marschallin, the role she sang on her New York Metropolitan Opera House debut in 1962. She retired in 1989 after singing the Countess in The Queen of Spades at Paris.