Jane Lawrence Smith (February , â€" August , ), born Jane Brotherton,
was an American actress and opera singer who was part of the New York
art scene beginning in the s.Jane Brotherton was born in Bozeman,
Montana, and grew up in Mt. Vernon, Washington. Her father was
Lawrence Langham Brotherton, a founder of the Bozeman Canning
Company.In she, created the small role of Gertie in Oklahoma! on
Broadway. The same year, she married Tony Smith, an architect who
later achieved fame as a minimalist sculptor. Her close friend
Tennessee Williams was best man at her wedding. The Smiths became the
parents of three daughters, Kiki Smith, Seton Smith and Beatrice
(Bebe) Smith Robinson (herself married to the painter and art critic
Walter Robinson, before she died from AIDS).In she traveled to Europe
and began an opera career in Germany. The next year she sang the part
of Elettra in the Salzburg Festival presentation of Idomeneo,
conducted by Georg Solti.
was an American actress and opera singer who was part of the New York
art scene beginning in the s.Jane Brotherton was born in Bozeman,
Montana, and grew up in Mt. Vernon, Washington. Her father was
Lawrence Langham Brotherton, a founder of the Bozeman Canning
Company.In she, created the small role of Gertie in Oklahoma! on
Broadway. The same year, she married Tony Smith, an architect who
later achieved fame as a minimalist sculptor. Her close friend
Tennessee Williams was best man at her wedding. The Smiths became the
parents of three daughters, Kiki Smith, Seton Smith and Beatrice
(Bebe) Smith Robinson (herself married to the painter and art critic
Walter Robinson, before she died from AIDS).In she traveled to Europe
and began an opera career in Germany. The next year she sang the part
of Elettra in the Salzburg Festival presentation of Idomeneo,
conducted by Georg Solti.
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