Anna de La Grange

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Anna de La Grange in " Norma " (Louis-Auguste Moreaux)

Anna de La Grange , also Anne Caroline de Lagrange , (* July 24, 1825 in Paris , according to other sources 1824 in Nancy , † April 23, 1905 in Paris) was a French opera singer ( soprano ).

Life

La Grange came from a very wealthy family; her mother was of German descent. Her father regularly organized musical soirees, where La Grange came into contact with artists of her time. She had the leading Italian singing masters as teachers. In Paris she was a student of Giulio Marco Bordogni , one of the most famous singing teachers of the time. In 1840 she made her official operatic debut in Paris at the Théâtre Renaissance, where she appeared in the opera La Duchesse de Guise by Friedrich von Flotow . She continued her musical education in Italy, including in Milan with Francesco Lamperti and at the Liceo musicale di Bologna, where she was taught personally by Gioacchino Rossini . She made her debut in Italy in 1842 in the opera Il bravo by Saverio Mercadante . She sang in Italian and French theaters with great success for the next 20 years. In the 1845/46 season she performed at La Scala in Milan ; later there again in 1861. After she had first sung on excellent Italian stages, she came to Hamburg in 1849 and to Vienna in 1850, where she created Fides in the Prophet during a guest performance . From 1850 to 1853 she was a permanent member of the Vienna Court Opera . She caused a sensation both by her appearance and by her singing and joined the Association of the German Opera of the Kärntnertortheater in 1852, where she remained until 1853. In spite of this short period of time, it was highly favored by the Viennese.

Norma , Gilda , Lucia were referred to as their glossy roles. La Grange made guest appearances in Budapest, Berlin, Dresden, Leipzig and Madrid (1862). After returning from a concert tour of the United States (1855-1858, including appearances in New York as Violetta in La traviata in 1856) and Brazil / South America (1857-1858), she withdrew from the stage in 1861 completely. According to other sources, she did not finally give up her career until 1869.

After finishing her stage career she lived in Paris as a singing teacher and he held an honorary professorship at the Conservatory in Bologna. La Grange was married to Baron Grégoire de Stankovicz (also Stankovics ) († 1862).

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Henri-Émile Chevalier: Biographie de Mme Anna de La Grange , Montreal, Canada, 1856 ( p. 14  - Internet Archive , French)
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Karl J. Kutsch, Leo Riemens: Großes Sängerlexikon . Fourth, expanded edition. Munich 2003, ISBN 3-598-11419-2 , Volume 2: Castori – Frampoli , pp. 1063/1064.

This article is based on a public domain text from Ludwig Eisenberg's Large Biographical Lexicon of the German Stage in the 19th Century , 1903 edition.

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personal data
SURNAME La Grange, Anna de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French opera singer (soprano)
DATE OF BIRTH July 24, 1825
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH April 23, 1905
Place of death Paris