Victorian Vocalists

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Victorian Vocalists is a masterful collection of biographies of some of the stars, secrets, and forgotten names of the British musical halls. Kurt Ganzl, among the world's leading authorities on popular musical theatre, paints a vivid picture of the world of Victorian musical theatre. Revealing the backgrounds, journeys, successes and sometimes misdemeanours of one hundred singers, this volume is not only an outstanding reference work for anyone interested in vocalists of the late 19th century, but also a compelling, meticulously researched chronicle of life on the Victorian stage. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Table of contents Figures Preface ADINI [ADINY], Ada [SCHILLINGER, Ada] (b Boston, ? 1 March 1856; d Pourville, Dieppe, 22 February 1924) AGNESI, Luigi Fernando [AGNIEZ, Louis [Loedwyck] Ferdinand Léopold] (b Erpent, Namur, Belgium, 17 July 1833; d 56 ... ALBERTINI, Augusta [AITCHI(N)SON, Augusta Rosina] (b Bristol, bap 5 June 1823; d Florence, Italy, 23 January 1898) AMADEI, Giulia [FRY, née LAMOND, Isabella Hume] (b Edinburgh, 24 November 1826; d 26 Midvale Road, St Helier, Jersey, ... AMBRE, Émilie [AMBROISE, Émilie Gabrielle Adèle] (b Place Kléber, Oran, Algeria, 6 June 1849; d St Ouen, Paris, 13 April 1898) BAUERMEISTER, Mathilde (b Hamburg, ?1849; d Herne Villa, High Street, Herne Bay, 4 October 1926) BELLETTI, Giovanni Battista (b Sarzana, Liguria, 17 February ?1813; d Sarzana, 27 December 1890) BELOCCA [BEL(L)OKH], Anna de (b ?St Petersburg, 4 January ?1854; d unknown) BERRY GREENING, EMILY [GREENING, Emily Eliza] (b 3 Carlton Cottages, Stoke Newington, London, 5 February 1838; ... BETTS, Abigail (b London, bap St Giles in the Fields, Camden, 13 April 1800; d Kennington, London, 4 May 1866) BIRCH, Charlott(e) Ann (b Camberwell, London, c 1815, bap St Giles, Camberwell, 15 January 1817; d Shaftesbury Road, ... BRIGNOLI, Pasquale [Pasqualino] (b San Ferdinando, Naples, ? 1 January 1824; d Everett House, New York, 30 October 1884) BRUCE, SUSAN [WYATT, Susan Jane] (b Marylebone, London, 3 April 1804; d 52 Wigmore Street, London, 10 March 1890) BYRON, Arthur (Edward George) (b Westminster, London, 5 April 1846; d St George’s Infirmary, Fulham Road, London, ... CAMPOBELLO, Enrico [?MARTIN, Henry Maclean] (b ? Campbeltown, Scotland, c 1836; d after 1918) CANDIDUS, William (b Philadelphia, 23 July 1840; d Frankfurt-am-Main, 29 or 31 March 1910) CARADORI, Anna Giovanna [ZANYNGA, Anna] (b Pest, c 1812; d 49 Great Ormond Street, Holborn, London, 18 December 1889) CARADORI ALLAN [née DE MUNCK], (Maria Caterina [Catherine]) Rosalbina (b ‘Casa Palatina, near Milan’, c 1800; d Elm ... CASTLE, William [James] (b St Mary le More parish, Wallingford, Berkshire, 22 December 1836; d 442 West Adams, Chicago, ... CHIOMI, Emilia [HAIRS, Emmeline Mary] (b Hanover Place, London, 3 August 1852; d unknown) CIAMPI, Giuseppe (b Venice, ? March 1832; d Valetta, Malta, ? March 1892) CONDELL, Helen [Hélène] [CUNDELL, Helen] (b The Minories, London, 28 May 1820; d London, 1895) CSILLAG, Rosa [GOLDSTEIN, Róza] (b Albertirsa, Hungary, 23 October ?1832; d 13 Singerstrasse,Vienna, 20 February 1892) De BEGNIS, Giuseppe (b Lugo, Emilia Romagna, c 1793; d 31 North Moore Street, New York, 1 August 1849) DELCY, CATHERINE [Catarina] [LACY, Catherine Josefa] (b Liverpool, c 1819; d 11 Leighton Grove, St Pancras, London, ... DI MURSKA, Ilma [PUKSEC, Ema (?Maria Thea)] (b Ogulin, Croatia, 6 February 1834; d 30 Maximilianstrasse, Munich, ... DORUS-GRAS [née VAN STEENKISTE], Julie (Aimée Josèphe) (b Valenciennes, France, 8 September 1805; d 7 rue de Londres, ... DURAND, Maria Louise (b Charleston, South Carolina, July 1846; d unknown) ESCOTT [EASTCOTT, née GRANT], Lucy (b Springfield, Massachusetts, 4 January 1829; d Paris, 26 November 1895) FARQUHARSON [SMITH], Robert (b Moneyer(s) Street, Hoxton, London, 26 May 1820; d 2 Wilberforce Road, Finsbury Park, ... FAVANTI, Rita [EDWARDS, Margaret Fothergill] (b Limehouse, London, 21 October 1817; d 28 Abingdon Villas, Kensington, ... FEDOR, Guglielmo [MATWEITSCH DE BECKER, Wilhelm Ferdinand] (b ?Russia, c 1823; d Eltham, Kent, 15 October 1870) FIORENTINI, CLAUDINA [WILLIAMS, Florentina Claudina] (b Seville, c 1828; d ?1889) FRAZER [FRICKER], John James (b St James, Westminster, London, c1805; d Philadelphia, 18 June 1863) FRIEDLÄNDER, Thekla (b Leipzig, c 1845; d Leipzig, unknown) GAVEAUX-SABATIER [née BÉNAZET], Émilie (b Paris, c 1821; d 24 rue de Richier, Paris, 12 October 1896) GORDOSA [BOTIBOL], Fanny (b Soho Square, London, 7 August 1827; d Netherne Asylum, Merstham, Surrey, 21 February 1910) GOULD [Wildman Gould], Julia (b Strand, London, 28 August ?1819; d Kinamundy, Illinois, 29 January 1894) GREENFIELD [Taylor], Elizabeth (b USA, ?1819; d Philadelphia, 31 March 1876) GUILMETTE, Charles [Alexander] (b ?Dumfries, Scotland, 20 March ?1823; d 1342 Washington Square, Boston, 18 June 1880) HALL [née BROWN], Edna (b Woodstock, Vermont, 21 December 1839; d 246 Dartmouth Street, Boston, 3 December 1896) HARRIS, Laura (b New York, c 1846; d 3 Emmanuel Avenue, Acton, London, 19 July 1917) HIRLEMANN, Adelina (b c 1853; d London, February 1886) HÖLZEL, Gustav (b Pest, 2 September 1813; d Vienna, 3 December 1883) HORTON, Priscilla [Mrs German Reed] (b Birmingham, 1 January 1818; d Bexley Heath, Kent, 18 March 1895) JONES, ELIZA [JONES, MRS C] (b Edmonton, Middlesex, 29 November 1789; d York Town, Surrey, 28 February 1866) KENNETH, ElEnA (b London, ?16 December 1826; d unknown): KENNETH, Susan (b London, c 1830; d unknown) LANCIA, Florence [MORRIS, Laura Florence Mary Agnes] (b 12 Walnut Tree Walk, Lambeth, London, 20 March 1840; d 8 ... LAURENCE, Alberto [MARSHALL, James] (b Cuckfield, Sussex, 16 May 1824; d unknown) LIEBHART, Luise [Lujza, Louise] (b Sopron [Ödenburg], Hungary, 31 July 1828; d 67 Warwick Road, Maida Vale, London, ... LOCKEY, Charles (b Thatcham, Berkshire, 23 March 1820; d Hastings, Sussex, 3 December 1901) LYALL, Charles (b Regent Street, London, c 1833; d 42 Clifton Hill, St John’s Wood, London, 3 May 1911) MASCALL [Maskall], Elizabeth (Wadd) (b Enfield, Middlesex, c 1831; d 11 Norland Square, Holland Park, London, ... MAYBRICK, Michael (b 8 Church Alley, Liverpool, 31 January 1841; d St Ann’s Hotel, Buxton, Derbyshire, 26 August 1913) MENGIS, Joseph (b Leukerbad [Loèche-les-Bains], Switzerland, 11 September 1816; d Lausanne, 23 April 1881) MESSENT, SOPHIA [MESSANT, Sophia Harriet] (b Haggerstone, Shoreditch, London, 10 December 1823; d 47 Aldridge Road Villas, ... MIRAN, Mira [WILMSHURST, Mira Dashwood] (b parish of St Mary at the Walls, Colchester, Essex, 15 July 1826; d 1 Lisle ... MONBELLI [née RABOU], Marie (Désirée Françoise) (b Versailles, France, 19 May 1845; d Cannes, 8 January 1913) NAU, (Marie) Dolores (Bénédicte Josephine) (b New York, 18 March ?1818; d Maison Greffulhe, rue de Villiers, ... NIKITA [NICHOLSON, Margaret Louise Putnam] (b Washington, DC, 18 August 1872; d unknown) NOUVER, ELIZABETH [PEARSON, Elizabeth] (b Newton Heath, Manchester, c 1846; d 9 Lichfield Gardens, Richmond, ... OSGOOD [née Hill], Aline (b Somerville, Massachusetts, 27 March 1845; d Philadelphia, 8 November 1911) PACKARD, Frederic (b North Bridgewater, Massachusetts, 10 August 1842; d 112 East 18th Street, New York, 16 May 1901) PALMIERI, Maria (ALFIERI, Maria) [CROFT, Mary Anne] (b Mount Row, Lambeth, London, 23 May 1835; d Milton Chambers, ... PARRY, John (b Soho, London, 3 January 1810; d Pembroke Lodge, East Molesey, Surrey, 20 February 1879) PATON, Mary Ann (WOOD, Mrs) (b Edinburgh, ?23 October 1802; d Bullcliff(e) Hall, Bretton West, Yorkshire, 21 July 1864) PAUL, Mrs Howard (Miss Featherstone) [HILL, Isabelle Jane] (b Newton Street, Holborn, London, 1 April 1833; d 17 The ... PEARCE, Emma (b Caldwell Court, St Pancras, London, 9 August 1816; d 56 Harrow Road, Paddington, London, 3 May 1892) PENCO, Rosina (b Naples, 8 April 1823; d La Poretta, Italy, 2 November 1894) PHILLIPS, Henry (b Bristol, 13 August ?1801; d Dalston, London, 8 November 1876) PICCOLOMINI, Marietta [PICCOLOMINI CLEMENTINI, Maria Teresa Violante] (b Siena, 5 March 1834; d Poggio Imperiale, ... PISCHEK, Johann Baptist [PIŠEK, Jan Krtitel] (b Mšeno, Bohemia, 14 October 1814; d Sigmaringen, Württemberg, Germany, ... POOLE, Elizabeth (b Adam Street, Manchester Square, Marylebone, London, 5 April 1820; d Langley, Buckinghamshire ... PYNE, Louisa (b St Pancras, London, 27 August 1827; d 85 Cambridge Gardens, North Kensington, London, 20 March 1904) ROBINSON, George (b Northampton, c1799; d Pentonville, London, 11 December 1857) ROUSBEY, Arthur [HUNTRESS, James] (b South Shields, Northumberland, 1851; d at sea, 29 October 1899) RUBINI, Fanny Jervis [JERVIS, Fanny] (b Lucca, Italy, c1847; d Shoreham-by-Sea, Sussex, 30 December 1915) RUDERSDORFF, Hermine (b Bezirk Kursk, Ivanovskoie, Crimea, 12 December ?1822; d Hotel Lagrange, Boston ... SAPIO, Lewis Bernard (b London, 1784; d Queen Street, Edgware Road, London, 27 November 1851): SAPIO, Antonio ... SAROLTA, Mademoiselle [AGGTELEKI BUJANOVICS, Sarolta Gizela Maria Anna Eva] (Belvárosi, Pest, ?20 January 1839, ... SCOVEL [SCOVELL], Edward (b Detroit, 6 May 1846; d Hotel Savoia, Corso Italia, Bordighera, Italy, 31 December 1945) SESSI, Mathilde [ALEXANDER, Mathilde Gabriele] (b Vienna, 23 May 1846; d Nieder-Ingelheim am Rhein, Germany, ... SHAW, Mrs Alfred [POSTANS, Mary] (b Lee, Kent, bap 14 August 1814; d Hadleigh Hall, Suffolk, 9 September 1876) SHIRREFF, Jane (b London, 15 January 1808; d London, 23 December 1883) SINICO [MARINI], Clarice (b Ascoli Piceno, Italy, 4 May 1838; d Lambeth, London, 23 June 1909) STAUDIGL, Joseph (b Wöllersdorf, Austria, 14 April 1807; d Vienna, 28 March 1861) SUSINI, Agostino (b Florence, 6 January 1823; d 108 Lambeth Road, London, 24 November 1883) SUTTON [née FANTONI], Emily (b ?New Orleans, ?15 March 1814; d Italy, ?) THALBERG, Zare [MACKENZIE or THALBERG, Nazzarena] (b New York, 16 April 1858; d Naples, 11 January 1921) THOMAS, Lewis (b Bath, 19 April 1826; d Harrington Square, London, 12 June 1896) TONNELLIER, Annie [MILNER, Ann] (b Scholes, nr Cleckheaton, Yorkshire, 3 April 1835; d 13 Queen’s Square, Leeds, ... TORRIANI, Ostava [TORNQUIST, ? Sophia Ostava] (b Hamburg, c 1845; d Milan, c 1916) TREMAINE, Annie [BEAUMONT, Ada; AMADI, Madame] [CRILMAN or CREELMAN, Anne] (b Woolwich Cadet Barracks, London, ... TURNER, James William (b Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, 5 June 1842; d The Croft, Yardley, Worcestershire, ... URIO, Michele [IALOMITEANU, Mihai] VANERI [COLMACHE], Pauline (b Somerset Street, Portman Square, London, 23 September 1833; d 5 Acol Road, West ... VINNING, Louisa (b Kingsbridge, Devon, 10 November 1835; d 19 Inverness Terrace, Paddington, London, 26 March 1904) VITELLI, Giovanni [WHITTLE, John] (b Spitalfields Market, London, bap 14 August 1825; d in the street, Richmond, Victoria, ... WHITWORTH, Henry [JONES, Henry Whitworth] (b Stapleton House, Stapleton, Gloucestershire, 24 September 1817; d 1 ... YORKE [JONES], Josephine (b Cincinnati, 7 March 1850; d Home of the Little Sisters of the Poor, Chicago, 2 March 1931)