Thebom, Blanche (1918– )

US mezzo-soprano of Swedish parentage. She sang at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York 1944–67 as Fricka, Carmen, Azucena, and Ortrud. She sang at Glyndebourne in 1950, as Dorabella and at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London in 1957, as Dido in the first performance of Les Troyens/The Trojans in a single evening. She recorded Brangaene with Furtwängler and was well known as Baba the Turk, Amneris, and Laura. She taught at San Francisco State University from 1980.