Emma Eames

Emma Hayden Eames ( born August 13, 1865 in Shanghai (China), † June 13, 1952 in New York City ) was an American opera singer (soprano) and singing teacher.

Life

Emma Eames was the daughter of a lawyer who worked in international courts. She studied for four years in Boston and then went to Paris to study with Mathilde Marchesi. She was selected in 1889 by Charles Gounod to the premiere of his opera Roméo et Juliette at the Paris Opera to sing the Juliette. Eames was a lyric soprano and she was particularly admired for her beauty and grace, but also for your vocal technique and for the dramatic expressiveness of her voice.

Emma Eames left the Paris Opéra in 1891 due to some intrigue in which the Australian opera singer Nellie Melba was involved, and she went to the New York Metropolitan Opera, there to sing the Juliette. At the "Met", she was one of the leading members of the cast and she joined there by the year 1909 in a total of 440 performances. During this time she also appeared frequently in London.

After a short break in her career she appeared in 1911 again at the opera in Boston. Later she went on concert tours irregularly, usually together with her ​​second husband, the American baritone Emilio de Edoardo Gogorza, of which she was later divorced. In 1916 she finally came back from the stage. From 1936 on she lived in New York, where she gave singing lessons. Here she died, 86 years old, on 13 June 1952.

Works

• Some Memories and Reflections, 1927 ( autobiography)

• American musician
• Opera singer
• Soprano
• Singing teacher
• Born 1865
• Died in 1952
• Woman