Lina Bell by Nadar

LINA BELL
(Marie Berthe Euphrasie BRUNEL)
16 January 1846 -????
French Mezzo Soprano
Her father was a music teacher at the school of Angers. Began in Variety in March 1874 and then sang at the Opera Comique in August 1874 . Debut at Paris Opera as Kaled in “Le Roi de Lahore” by Massenet in 1877 , She sang Siebel in “Faust” by Gounod and Berginella in “La Perichole” by Offenbach