Kitty Cornelli

Kitty Cornelli (in the 20th century, probably after marriage, also Kitty Cornelli-Poggiolesi ; before 1886 - after 1908) was a stage actress and singer .

Life

Cornelli had been on the stage since 1886, in which year she made her debut at the Grazer Landestheater. After two years of engagement there she came to Vienna's Karltheater (1889), to Troppau (1890), to Baden near Vienna (1892-1893), then she was committed to Berlin, where she worked at the Friedrich Wilhelmstädtischer Theater from 1893 to 1896, and in 1897 she joined the association of the Lindentheater, from where she followed an application to the German State Theater in Prague . Cornelli worked there as an operetta singer and proved to be a very popular and welcomed representative of her subject.

She was musical, delighted with her pleasant voice, the carefulness of the development of her performances, with her temperament and the naturalness of her sympathetic, degaged game. As in her earlier engagements, her achievements also enjoyed fair recognition in the ensemble of the Prague Operetta Theater. Her popular performances include “Boccaccio”, “Rosalinde”, “Juanitta”, “Schöne Helena” etc., but also “Waltraute”, “Anneris” and the like. a. m.

After her sister's death in 1907, she took over her Prague establishment, Nellys Maxim .

literature

• Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Verlag von Paul List , Leipzig 1903, p. 164 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

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