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Lorini, Madame Virginia Whiting (?-1865). American Opera SopranoBiblio.com

AN ORIGINAL BROADSHEET ANNOUNCEMENT for Opera Performances at the Boston Academy of Music including NORMA Starring the Opera Soprano MADAME VIRGINIA WHITING LORINI: "BOSTON ACADEMY OF MUSIC. ITALIAN OPERA. Director J.Grau. This Friday Evening February 27 will be produced Italian and French Opera Bellini's celebrated Opera NORMA. With MADAME LORINI as NORMA. Saturday Afternoon. LA TRAVIATA . And the entire Opera of LUCREZIA BORGIA. Lucrecia Borgia - Signora Lorini."

1863réf. 100670Boston: Transcript Job Printing Office 1863. 1863. Very good. - An original 10-3/8 inch high by 6-5/8 inch wide broadsheet announcement for the Grau Italian Opera Company's performances of "Norma" "Les Noces de Jeannette" "La Traviata" and "Lucrezia Borgia" with a 2-7/8 inch high by 6-5/8 inch wide tipped-on overlay advertising the following week's performances of "I Puritani" and a performance of "Oratorio and Sacred Concert" several featuring the Opera Soprano Madame Lorini in the title roles. The broadsheet advertises the Friday February 27 performances of "Norma" and "Les Noces de Jeannette" and the following Saturday & Sunday's performances of "La Traviata" and "Lucrezia Borgia" with the Following week's Monday performance of "I Puritani" and the Tuesday performance of "La Juive" printed on the recto of the overlay tipped on over the Saturday program with that Sunday's "Oratorio and Sacred Concert" advertised on the verso of the overlay. The Broadside is dated "Sunday Evening March 1 1863 under the announcements of "La Traviata" and "Lucrezia Borgia". There is some minor foxing and darkening and the broadsheet is mounted from the verso onto slightly larger heavy cream paper. Very good. The Brau Italian Opera Company began a six week engagement at the Boston Academy of Music on February 9th. This was the last time that what became "The Boston Theatre" was called "The Academy of Music". Among the singers were Madame Lorini Mlle Morensi Signor Maccaferri Signor Susini Mademoiselle Cordier Signor Dubreul etc. The November 15 1862 New York Herald review of an earlier performance of "Norma" at the Academy of Music possibly the Brooklyn Academy of Music in that case highly praises the quality of the Soprano's voice "It follows as a matter of course from what we have just stated that Madame Lorini's debut last night was a success. She had sung but a few passages when the audience recognized the beautiful quality of her voice--pure round and fresh--and though not as powerful as one would wish to hear in Norma still with volume sufficient to give a perfect interpretation of the music of the part. Her method is excellent and exhibits evidence of her Italian training." [Boston]: Transcript Job Printing Office, 1863.

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Hauk, Minnie (1851-1929). American operatic soprano and mezzo-sopranoBiblio.com

AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED by the American Soprano & Mezzo-Soprano MINNIE HAUK apologizing as she might not be able to sing at a charity concert under orders from the laryngologist Morrell Mackenzie after her voice went hoarse singing the role of Carmen the previous evening.

réf. 101473Tuesday June 8th. . Very good. - A four-page letter consisting of 240 words penned on 4 sides of 6 inch high by 4 inch wide laid paper with an attached integral leaf. The American operatic soprano Minnie Hauk writes to "Miss Halle" expressing her concerns that she might not be able to sing at a forthcoming charity concert "I can hardly say otherwise but that I write this in a frame of trepidation for fear of disappointing you. My Physician Dr. Mackenzie says that I must not think of singing for over a week at least. For you must know that after the second act of Carmen last evening I was taken with sudden hoarseness that I could hardly get through the remainder of the Opera." Mentioning to her doctor that she's anxious to sing at a Charity Concert the next Tuesday she writes that "the prospect is that I might be able to sing but you would have to take the chance and a decided answer could only be given on the day of the Concert." In case she can sing she lists those arias she'll perform including "Non conosci il bel suol" from "Mignon" an area from "Katherine & Petruchio" by Goetz and "La Serenata" from "Mefistofele". Signed in full "Minnie Hauk". Folded for mailing the letter was apparently once mounted with a strip of clear tape adhering to the right edge of the last page. Very good. The charity concert to which she refers was likely with the Halle Concert Society in Manchester England. The American operatic soprano and subsequently mezzo-soprano Minnie Hauk 1851-1929 began vocal studies with Achille Errani who set her up with the Max Maretzek Italian Opera Company. She made her debut at the age of 14 as Amina in "La sonnambula" performed in Brooklyn. Her Manhattan debut took place as Prascovia in "L'Etoile du Nord" in 1866 and by 1867 sang the role of Juliette in the American premiere of Gounod's "Romeo et Juliette". Her European debut took place at London's Covent Garden in 1868 followed by her Paris debut in 1869 when she was still but 18 years old. She subsequently appeared in Vienna and throughout Europe. Her intense performance of Bizet's "Carmen" brought new life & fame to what was then an unsuccessful opera. Her voice changed to mezzo-soprano which was recognized to be of great strength and depth. The doctor to who Minnie Hauk refers was the British physician Sir Morrell Mackenzie 1837-1892 one of the pioneers of laryngology. Mackenzie studied at the London Hospital becoming a member of the Royal College of Surgeons before undertaking studies in Paris Vienna and Budapest. Returning to London in 1862 he won the Jacksonian prize at the Royal College of Surgeons for his essay on the "Pathology and Treatment of Diseases of the Larynx: The Diagnostic Indications to Include the Appearance as Seen in the Living Person" and he devoted himself to specializing in diseases of the throat. Tuesday June 8th. unknown

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SEMIHA BERKSOY, (Turkish soprano, opera singer and painter), (1910-2004).Biblio.com

Concert pamphlet signed 'Semiha Berksoy'.

1955réf. 053357Istanbul: Original Concert Program Pamphlet with Autograph Signature 1955. No Binding. Very Good. Original concert program signed and inscribed by Semiha Berkdoy. 24x12 cm Folded size. Folded. 8 p. fully ills. Signed and inscribed by Berksoy. Semiha Berksoy was a Turkish opera singer and painter. Berksoy started her acting career in the role of Semiha in the first Turkish sound movie Istanbul Sokaklarinda directed by Muhsin Ertugrul in 1931. She was cast in operettas in Istanbul theaters early in her career. She sang in the first Turkish opera Özsoy in 1934 commissioned by Kemal Atatürk composed by Adnan Saygun. She was honored as the First Turkish Opera Singer and awarded the opportunity to go to Berlin Music Academy for further training. She started her international singing career in 1934 performing in Turkey Germany and Portugal becoming known as a Wagnerian soprano. In 1939 for the 75th birthday of Richard Strauss in Berlin she sang the role of Ariadne in Ariadne Auf Naxos becoming the first Turkish prima donna to perform on stage in Europe. Back in Turkey she worked with Carl Ebert helping him in his efforts to create the Turkish State Opera and Ballet. This initiative leads to the creation of the Experimental Stage of the Ankara State Conservatory 1940. She retired from the Istanbul Opera in 1972. She was decorated with the "Atatürk Opera Award" at the 50th-anniversary ceremonies commemorating the introduction of women's rights to vote and to be elected. She received the title of "State Artist" in Turkey in 1998. Following her retirement she remained active mostly as a theater artist. Four years preceding her death at the age of 90 she appeared in a dramatic scene singing Liebestod in Robert Wilson's opera The Days Before: Death Destruction and Detroit III at the Lincoln Center in New York City 1999. Original Concert Program Pamphlet with Autograph Signature unknown

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