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Jane Bathori (14 June 1877 – 25 January 1970) was a French mezzo-soprano. She was famous on the operatic stage and important in the development of contemporary French music.
In the early 1900s Bathori began studying with Pierre-Émile Engel, whom she married in 1908. She became celebrated for her performance of Maurice Ravel's song cycle Shéhérazade and gave the premières of his Histoires naturelles (of which she was the dedicatee) and of his Chansons madécasses. In 1917 Bathori became the director of the Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier.
In the early 1920s she played an important role in the propagation of new music of this period,Jean-Pierre Thiollet, 88 notes pour piano solo (Magland: Neva Editions, 2015), pp. 102–103. especially by some of the members of Les Six, giving many first performances of their works and those of others.
Throughout the 1930s Bathori appeared every year at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires. In 1935 she was appointed to the Legion of Honour for her services to French music. During the German occupation of France in the Second World War she made Buenos Aires her home. After her return to France she taught singing, and gave frequent talks for French radio.
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