Janet Monach Patey [SEP] voice type
Janet Monach Patey
Janet Monach Patey (1 May 1842 – 28 February 1894) was an English concert and oratorio contralto.
Early life.
She was born Janet Monach Whytock in London in 1842. She had a fine alto voice, which developed into a contralto, and she studied singing under J. Wass, Ciro Pinsuti and Mrs Sims Reeves (Emma Lucombe). Whytock's first appearance, as a child, was made at Birmingham.
Career.
Her first regular engagement was in 1865, in the
, with Santley, Janet Monach Patey and others, she appeared briefly in Wallace's "The Amber Witch", but the bailiffs moved in, and on transfer to Drury Lane Theatre her role was taken by Euphrosyne Parepa-Rosa.
In January to March 1864, at Her Majesty's, Lemmens-Sherrington sang Marguerite in Gounod's "Faust", in the second year of the English production, in the cast with Santley (introducing "Dio possente"), Reeves (distinguished in Act 1) and Marchesi