| Biography | Jean Maria Allister was a British contralto singer and teacher. She studied singing in London under Norman Allin at the Royal Academy of Music.
Allister was as much at home on the concert platform as on the operatic stage, and in modern music as much as the classics. She sang at the Proms, and at Glyndebourne. Versatile and adaptable, in 1963 she sang Gilbert and Sullivan at the Royal Albert Hall; a medieval music drama, as Mary Magdalene in Visitatio Sepulchri, in the then new Coventry Cathedral; and Verdi's Requiem, in memory of President Kennedy, conducted by Dorati in the Royal Festival Hall. |