Annie Louise Cary
Annie Louise Cary (born October 22, 1842 in Wayne , Maine , † April 3, 1921 in Norwalk , Connecticut ) was an American opera singer with a dramatic voice that spanned three octaves and who was the most important American mezzo-soprano for a decade .
Life
Annie Louise Cary was the daughter of Dr. Nelson Howard Cary and his wife Maria Stockbridge were born in Wayne, Maine in 1842. After attending the local school, she studied at Female Seminary in Gorham , Maine until 1862 . From 1859 to 1865 she was in Portland , later in Boston a student of JQ Wetherbee and Lyman Wheeler. She went to Italy in 1866 to train as an opera singer in Milan . There she studied with Giovanni Corsi until January 1868.
career
In 1868 she went to Copenhagen and under the direction of Achille Lorini she had her first engagement as Azucena in the opera Il trovatore . The following winter she performed in Copenhagen and Gothenburg . Then she went to Baden-Baden to take lessons from Pauline Viardot-García . In the autumn of 1869 she had an engagement at Stockholm under the direction of Ferdinand Strakosch . Two months later she was engaged at the Royal Opera where she sang her part in Italian, in contrast to the Swedish singers who sang in Swedish.
She spent the summer in Paris and studied with Giovanni Bottesini . She spent the following autumn in Brussels and sang at the opera there. There she also completed an engagement with Maurice and Max Strakosch , which took her to the United States for the next three years.
She spent the winter of 1869 to 1870 in Paris and the spring in London and appeared at the Theater Royal in Drury Lane . She returned to America in September 1870 and made her debut at Steinway Hall in New York City . In 1873 she sang the part of Amneris at the American premiere of Giuseppe Verdi's Aida in the Academy of Music . As the first American-born singer, she sang a Wagner role in 1877 with Ortrud from the opera Lohengrin .
Engagements for operas and concerts followed for twelve years. She performed with Carlotta Patti , Emma Albani, and others. In the winter of 1875 to 1876 she performed in Moscow and Saint Petersburg and in the Vienna State Opera . She repeated these appearances the following winter.
Annie Louise Cary has appeared at all major concerts and festivals, she sang in New York, Boston, Cincinnati, Chicago and Worcester.
Marriage and later life
She ended her stage career in 1880 and her concert career in 1881 after she had to cancel several concerts due to a vocal crisis.
On June 29, 1882, she married Charles Monson Raymond of New York City. Since then she has only sung privately and for charitable purposes, although she occasionally supported the choir in the church.
Individual evidence
- ^ Britannica.com , accessed August 25, 2018
- ↑ a b c d Annie Cary in Großes Sängerlexikon, Volume 4 , accessed on August 25, 2018
- ↑ a b c d e f g Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography: Wilson, James Grant; Fiske, John, Herg. (1900). Cary, Annie Louise
Web links
- Annie Louise Cary in the database of Find a Grave (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cary, Annie Louise |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American opera singer with a dramatic voice |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 22, 1842 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wayne , Maine |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 3, 1921 |
| Place of death | Norwalk , Connecticut |