Marcella Sembrich
Marcelina Kochanska Sembrich - also known as Marcella Sembrich (* February 15, 1858 in Wisniesczyk; † January 11, 1935 in New York; actually Prakseda Marcelina Kochanska ) was a Polish singer and pianist.
It was considered one of the best coloratura sopranos of her time. She had worldwide engagements at opera houses and concert halls, and celebrated a triumphant success.
Life
Marc Sembrich received initially from her father with four years of piano, violin lessons at age six. Its superior, versatile musical talent was soon recognized and promoted. At age eleven, she came to the Conservatory in Lviv, where she studied piano at four years Wilhelm Stengel, her future husband and manager, as well as violin and harmony. At age 16, she went to Vienna to study piano with Julius Epstein.
1876 , however, she gave up these instruments and focused entirely on training their singing voice. She studied in Milan with Giovanni Battista Lamperti and his father Francesco Lamperti and debuted in 1877 in Athens as Elvira in I Puritani. After she had taken numerous other roles in Athens, she joined the Vienna Opera, but had to because of the birth of their first son, William Marcel stalk, interrupting their career.
1878 to 1880 she worked at the Dresden Opera. This was followed by numerous concerts around the world and guest performances in which she triumphed eg as Lucia in Lucia di Lammermoor in London, in St. Petersburg ( 1880-82 ), Moscow ( 1881/1882 ) or at the Teatro Real Madrid (1882). 1883 she moved to New York at the just newly opened Metropolitan Opera, whose ensemble she belonged until her retirement from the stage, in which they sang a total of 25 games in 253 performances, plus 185 performances at the annual U.S. tour of the ensemble.. guest performances about in Saint Petersburg fall into this time. She sang at the Teatro Nacional de São Carlos in Lisbon (1885), at the Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels ( 1887), performed at the State Opera in Budapest (1887 ) and Monte Carlo ( 1893-94 ). In 1884 she had sensational success in the concert hall in Paris, 1897 with a U.S. tour. She was worshiped in Milan, Berlin and Vienna, Stockholm and Brussels. Johann Strauss ( son ) wrote a new version of his Voices of Spring - Waltz for coloratura soprano for them. 1887-91 it was year after year at the Opera of Frankfurt as a guest, where she was very popular.
After the end of her stage activity Marcella Sembrich taught since 1924 at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia and at the Juilliard School. Among her many students were, among others Dusolina Giannini, Alma Gluck, Hulda Lashanska and Queena Mario.
Aftermath
The Marcella Sembrich Opera Museum in Bolton Landing, New York is home to numerous memorabilia of the great singer.
In Theodor Fontane's narrative Mathilde Möhring, who plays the late 19th century, it belongs to the talk of the main characters.