Béatrice La Palme

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Béatrice La Palme

Marie Anne Béatrice Alice La Palme , also Marie Anne Béatrix Alice La Palme (born July 27, 1878 in Belœil , † January 8, 1921 in Montreal ) was a Canadian opera singer ( soprano ), violinist and music teacher .

Life

La Palme had music lessons with Alexis Contant and was a violin student of Charles Lejeune and Frantz Jehin-Prume and made her first public appearance in 1894 with the accompanist Joseph Saucier . As the first winner of the Strathcona Scholarship , she traveled to London the following year and continued her training there with Enrique Fernández Arbós . She also took singing lessons from Gustave García and appeared as a singer for the first time in 1898 at a concert at the Royal Conservatory . On the advice of Emma Albani , she then concentrated on her singing career and studied in London with Nelly Rowe , a student of Mathilde Marchesi .

In Paris, she sang in front of Jules Massenet , who was impressed and explained that she had managed to move him to tears with his own music. In 1902 she gave a concert in Montreal with the accompanist Bernadette Dufresne . In 1903 she briefly represented Fritzi Scheff at the Covent Garden Opera as Musetta in a gala performance of La Bohème in front of Edward VII. Her partners in this performance were Nellie Melba , Alessandro Bonci , Antonio Scotti , Marcel Journet , Charles Gilibert and Eugène Dufriche . In the 1903-04 season she performed in Lyon, in the summer of 1904 in Royan and from 1905 at the Opéra-Comique in Paris. There she met the tenor Salvator Issaurel , whom she married in 1908.

In the summer of 1909 La Palme appeared as a member of the Moody-Manners Company at the Lyric Theater in London, and in the following year she brought Thomas Beecham to His Majesty's Theater . She followed this in the fall of the year at the Covent Garden Opera . In 1911 she gave two concerts as a song singer in the Aeolian Hall .

In July 1911, La Palme and her husband returned to Montreal, where she gave a concert at Monument National and then joined the Montreal Opera Company , founded by Frank Stephen Meighen and Albert Clerk-Jeannotte , of which she was a member until its dissolution in 1913. In November 1913 she moved to the Century Opera House in New York. She returned to Montreal at the end of 1914 because of health problems and the uncertain situation that had arisen as a result of the outbreak of World War I. There she devoted herself to teaching in the last years of her life. Her students included Camille Bernard , Marie-Anne Couture , Graziella Dumaine and Flora Contant . She gave her farewell concert with her husband on November 14, 1919 in the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Montreal. A short time later she fell ill and died in early 1921 at the age of only 43.

La Palme mastered an extensive repertoire ranging from Gluck and Mozart , Massenet , Donizetti , Verdi and Wager to Eugène d'Albert , Jean Nouguès and Wolf-Ferrari , as well as works by operetta composers such as Adolphe Adam , Jacques Offenbach and George H. Clutsam . She was considered the most successful Canadian singer alongside Emma Albani.

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SURNAME La Palme, Béatrice
ALTERNATIVE NAMES La Palme, Marie Anne Béatrice Alice (full name); La Palme, Marie Anne Béatrix Alice
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian opera singer (soprano), violinist and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH July 27, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Belœil
DATE OF DEATH January 8, 1921
Place of death Montreal