Lillian Nordica by Aime Dupont

LILLIAN NORDICA
( Lillian Allen Norton )
(December 12, 1857 – May 10, 1914) American Soprano
Education by John O'Neill at the New England Conservatory Boston. 1874, she sang the soprano solo in the "Messiah" and then gave concerts with the Handel and Haydn Society under Theodore Thomas. 1877-78 she toured with an opera troupe North America, England and other European countries. She then studied at Sangiovanni in Milan and made his debut in 1879 at the Teatro Manzoni in Milan as Donna Elvira in "Don Giovanni". At their debut in Italy it took the name Lillian Nordica. In the same year she had spectacular successes in Brescia as Traviata. 1880 she sang in St. Petersburg Philina in "Mignon" of A.Thomas, Queen Marguerite de Valois in the "Huguenots" by Meyerbeer and Amelia in Verdi's "Ballo in Maschera". Then traveled to Germany; 1882 there was a glamorous appearance at the Paris Grand Opera, where she was celebrated as Marguerite in "Faust" by Gounod and as Ophélie in "Hamlet" by A.Thomas (both games they had studied with the composer). 1883 she sang as a starting role at the New York Academy of Music (with the Mapleson Opera Company), the Marguerite in "Faust". 1883 . In 1887 she made her debut at Covent Garden Opera House London, as Traviata; In 1889 she sang her first Wagner role, the Elsa in "Lohengrin". At Covent Garden Opera she was heard as Lucia di Lammermoor, Aida, Donna Anna, as Isolde and Brünnhilde. In 1893 she created for the London Zelika in "The Veiled Prophet" by Stanford. 1887-88 she was at the Kroll Opera in Berlin as a guest, 1888-89 they traveled through the Henry Abbey Company North America. 1894 she sang the first American woman at the Festival of Bayreuth Elsa in "Lohengrin". In 1894 they made an extensive tour through Germany. In 1896 she married the Hungarian baritone Zoltan domes (1869-1933), but from which they separated again. (Likewise failed a third, in 1909 contracted marriage with the Londonmer banker George W.Young). Further appearances at the Court Opera in Munich (1901, 1903) and Berlin (1911 as Isolde) and at the Opera of Monte Carlo (1891). At the Metropolitan Opera New York, she sang in years 1891-1910 in eleven seasons 19 games in 194 performances (plus 180 performances during the annual tour across the USA). Your first role at the Metropolitan Opera was in December 1891, the Valentine in the "Huguenots" by Meyerbeer. Prior to her involvement in this house they had there 1888-89 guest appearances with the ensemble of Henry Abbey Company as Aida and as Leonora in "Il Trovatore". She sang at the Metropolitan Opera Isolde in "Tristan", Brünnhilde in the operas of the Nibelungen ring, Venus in "Tannhauser", the Elsa in "Lohengrin", Kundry in "Parsifal", the Aida, Traviata, Leonora in the "Troubadour", the Marguerite in "Faust" by Gounod, as in "La damnation de Faust" by Berlioz, the Selika in Meyerbeer's "Africaine", the Donna Anna as Donna Elvira in "Don Giovanni", the Philina in "Mignon "and the Gioconda. In 1907 she toured the Manhattan Opera House New York, 1909 in the opening performance of the Opera of Boston in the title role in "La Gioconda" by Ponchielli. In 1910 she appeared at the Paris Grand Opéra as Isolde. In 1913 she entered the last time the stage, and although at the Opera of Boston. She gave a 1913 concert at New York's Carnegie Hall, ushering in a farewell tour around the world. This led to the shipwreck of the "Taskin," on which they traveled, in New Guinea. They caught a pneumonia and was taken to a makeshift Australian Hospital. She left this in April 1914, to undergo in Batavia improved medical treatment, but died soon after their arrival.