Marguerite Sylva AUTOGRAPH

as Selika or Inez "L'Africaine" Giacomo Meyerbeer.

Marguerite Sylva
(Marguerite Alice Hélène Smith)
1875 – 1957)
Belgian mezzo-soprano /soprano

After an audition with Augustus Harris, she was engaged to sing for the Drury Lane Theatre, and made her debut there in Carmen.She went to the United States with Herbert Beerbohm Tree's theatre company she carved out an increasingly successful career in musical comedy, operetta and vaudeville. in 1904 she again became fascinated by opera. and studied with Madame Delattre, She made her debut in 1906 in the title role of Carmen at Opera Comique .She sang with great success throughout France and Germany In 1909, Oscar Hammerstein invited her to return to America to sing at Manhattan Opera House. she also sang Boston Opera Company,San Carlo Opera . Berlin Royal Opera .Her Opera roles included Carmen (Carmen) ,Cavalleria rusticana Santuzza) ,Erminie (Erminie) ,Faust (Marguerite),Gypsy Love (Zorika),La bohème (Musetta ) ,La favorite Léonore)
Le Chemineau (Catherine),Le Point d'Argentan (Rose-Marie) ,Les contes d'Hoffmann (Giulietta),Manon (Manon)
Mignon (Mignon),Mireille (Taven)
Pagliacci (Nedda) ,Tosca (Tosca)
Werther (Charlotte)