Lilli Lehmann & Francesco D'Andrade

LILLI LEHMANN
(Elisabeth Maria Lehmann)
(24 November 1848-17 May 1929) German Soprano
Her father, Karl-August Lehmann, was a singer (Heldentenor) while her mother, Maria Theresia Löw was a soprano. Her first lessons were from her mother, After singing small parts on the stage, for example in Mozart's Magic Flute at Prague in 1866, and studies under Heinrich Laube in Leipzig Lehmann made her proper debut in 1870 in Berlin as a light soprano in Meyerbeer's Das Feldlager in Schlesien. She subsequently became so successful that she was appointed an Imperial Chamber Singer for life in 1876.Sang in the first Bayreuth Festival in 1876 , New York Metropolitan Opera in 1885–1899 .London's Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, in 1899 and sang in Paris and Vienna in 1903 and 1909 respectively. In 1905, she sang at the Salzburg Festival,

Francisco Augusto D'Andrade,
11 January 1856 – 8 February 1921
Portuguese baritone
He studied the basics of acting and music with Manuel Carreira and Arturo Pontecchi, the principal conductor of the Teatro São Carlos, and gave his first public recital in 1879 at the Salão da Trindade in Lisbon. In 1881 he went to Milan for further studies tenor Corrado Miraglia, and later with the baritone Sebastiano Ronconi. Debut 1882 at the Teatro Principe as Amedeo in Sanremo as Amonasro in Verdi's “Aida”. Over the next four years he sang in the opera houses of Portugal, Spain and Italy, including the Teatro Costanzi in Rome where he sang Count de Luna in Verdi's Il trovatore and Severo in the theatre's first performance of Donizetti's “Poliuto”. He and his brother António, D'Andrade were engaged as singers at the Théâtre Privé d'Opéra in Moscow for the 1885/86 season. They appeared together in 1888 world premiere of Alfredo Keil's “Donna Bianca” at the Teatro São Carlos with Francisco as Adaour and António as Aben-Afan. In 1886 he was at the Royal Italian Opera in London. His roles included Renato “Ballo in maschera”, Figaro “Il barbiere di Siviglia”, Escamillo “Carmen”, Giorgio Germont “La traviata”, Enrico Ashton “Lucia di Lammermoor”, Telramund “Lohengrin”, “ Rigoletto” and “Don Giovanni” In 1901 he sang Don Giovanni at the Salzburg Festival .In Germany he sang regularly with the Frankfurt Opera from 1891 to 1910 as well as several other major German opera houses. Berlin Hofoper in 1889. He retired from the stage in 1919.