Opera Singers & Vocalists Posters, Prints & Photographs, “A...-”
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Emma Abbott
Aino Ackte

Anna Maria Alberghetti

Emma Abbott
b. 12-9-1850; Chicago, IL
d. 1-5-1891; Salt Lake City, UT

Soprano Emma Abbot formed her own “Grand Opera Company” and toured the U.S.

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Aino Ackté
b. 7-23-1876; Helsinki, Finland
d. 8-8-1944; Vhti, Finland (pancreatic cancer)

Aino Ackté, Finnish opera soprano, sang with the NY Metropolitan Opera between 1904-1906

Ackté created the title role of Richard Strauss's Salome at its local premieres in Leipzig (1907) and London (1910), and he considered her the “one and only Salome”. Also Jean Sibelius dedicated his tone poem Luonnotar to Ackté.

FYI ~ la Cloche du Rhin is The Bell of the Rhine.

Anna Maria Alberghetti
b. 5-15-1936; Pesaro, Italy

Anna Maria Alberghetti was a child prodigy, born into a family of musicians, making her debut at Carnegie Hall at the age of 13. She won a Tony Award as Best Musical Actress for Carnival! (1962), and appeared in many movies and many times on The Ed Sullivan Show.

Marian Anderson
b. 2-27-1897; Philadelphia, PA
d. 4-8-1993; Oregon

In 1939 African-American contralto Marian Anderson performed an Easter Sunday concert to 70,000 at the Lincoln Memorial and a nationwide radio audience, at the suggestion of Eleanor Roosevelt, when the Daughters of the American Revolution denied Anderson performing to an integrated audience at Constitution Hall.

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