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- Maria Gay was a Catalan opera singer, a mezzo-soprano born as Maria de Lourdes Lucia Antonia Pichot Gironés. She has sometimes been referred to as Maria Gay Zenatello. According to one story, young Maria was arrested for singing revolutionary or nationalist songs. She defiantly continued to sing them in prison, with a voice so fine she was offered a chance to study bel canto. In 1897 she married Catalan composer Joan Gay i Planella. In 1902 she debuted in the title role of Carmen in Brussels. She was a hit in the role and became one of the best regarded interpreters of "Carmen" of her era. She reportedly shocked and mesmerized audiences, portraying the gypsy girl as an impudent, magnetic, but coarse and unrefined peasant, eating an orange and spitting out the seeds before singing the famous Habanera. In 1906 she debuted at Milan's La Scala, where she met tenor Giovanni Zenatello. Gay and Zenatello would live together the rest of their lives, and were often described as husband and wife, although they may never actually have gotten married, and legally Maria Gay may still have been married to Juan Gay Planella until his death in 1926. She made a series of gramophone records for the Columbia Phonograph Company. Gay and Zenatello worked to find, help train, and promote promising young singers. Their most famous find was Lily Pons, who the couple managed until Pons and the couple had a falling out. Gay and Zenatello set up a home in Manhattan, New York City in 1936, where she lived the rest of her life. Maria Gay was buried in Ferncliff Cemetery in Hartsdale, New York.
- Maria Pichot i Gironès (o Pitchot i Gironès), coneguda artísticament com Maria Gay, fou un mezzosoprano catalana. Germana del pintor Ramon Pichot i Gironès. Va conèixer al compositor Joan Gay i Planella a l'Orfeó Català, amb qui es casà i actuà com a solista, adoptant el nom artístic de Maria Gay. Va ser empresonada per cantar himnes revolucionaris. Va formar part, amb el seu marit, del grup d'artistes modernistes de Barcelona de finals de segle cantant en els concerts de la Institució Catalana de Música, en els de la coral Catalunya Nova i a l'Ateneu Barcelonès. Maria Pichot debutà al teatre amb una sarsuela catalana de Josep Maria Jordà i del mestre Morera. Anà a ampliar estudis a Brussel·les, on debutà el 1902 al Théâtre de la Monnaie. Des d'aleshores assolí grans èxits a Europa, especialment amb Carmen de Bizet, que el 1928 cantaria al Liceu de Barcelona. Triomfà també a Cuba, on cal subratllar el concert al Teatro Nacional de l'Havana. El 1908 fixà la seva residència a Nova York, on actuà en diversos teatres nord-americans com el Metropolitan Opera House. Es divorcià de Joan Gay i el 1913 es casà amb l'empresari i tenor Giovanni Zenatello, l'iniciador dels espectacles a l'Arena de Verona i amb el qual el 1927 va obrir una acadèmia de cant a Nova York.
- Maria Gay, född 1879, död 1943, spansk operasångerska, hade en relation fast var inte gift med Giovanni Zenatello.
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- Maria Gay was a Catalan opera singer, a mezzo-soprano born as Maria de Lourdes Lucia Antonia Pichot Gironés. She has sometimes been referred to as Maria Gay Zenatello. According to one story, young Maria was arrested for singing revolutionary or nationalist songs. She defiantly continued to sing them in prison, with a voice so fine she was offered a chance to study bel canto. In 1897 she married Catalan composer Joan Gay i Planella. In 1902 she debuted in the title role of Carmen in Brussels.
- Maria Pichot i Gironès (o Pitchot i Gironès), coneguda artísticament com Maria Gay, fou un mezzosoprano catalana. Germana del pintor Ramon Pichot i Gironès. Va conèixer al compositor Joan Gay i Planella a l'Orfeó Català, amb qui es casà i actuà com a solista, adoptant el nom artístic de Maria Gay. Va ser empresonada per cantar himnes revolucionaris.
- Maria Gay, född 1879, död 1943, spansk operasångerska, hade en relation fast var inte gift med Giovanni Zenatello.
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