teaching singing in Santa Fe. Her husband, the violinist Richard Elias, played in the Met Orchestra during Kraft's tenure at the house and retired with her. The couple built a house in Santa Fe in 1974, where they lived when not in New York City. Elias died in 2003. A few years after his death, Kraft moved back to New York City. Beginning in 2017, Kraft resided at the Lillian Booth Actors Home in Englewood, New Jersey, where she died on July 15, 2021, at age 94. References External links Interview with Jean Kraft, October 8, 1990 1927 births 2021 deaths American operatic mezzo-sopranos Curtis Institute of Music alumni 20th-century American women opera singers People from Menasha, Wisconsin Singers from Wisconsin Classical musicians from Wisconsin 21st-century American women