In 1839 Taglioni performed in the USA with his wife. From 1847 to 1857 he worked as a guest choreographer at Her Majesty’s Theatre in London. In 1851 he became the ballet master of the Hofoper (court Theatre) in Berlin. From 1853 to 1856 was ballet master in Naples and from 1856 until 1883 again in Berlin.
Artist/Engraver Weger
Size 28 x 21 cms
Price £18.00
Ref:3641
Hammermeister began his stage career as an opera singer in 1823 at the Schwerin Court Theater . From 1824 to 1828 he was at the Braunschweig Court Theater . In 1828 he went to the then newly formed Hoftheater Leipzig . Here he became known in operas composed by Heinrich Marschner , initially in 1828 in The Vampyr . In Marschner’s opera Der Templer and der Jüdin , premiered in 1829 , Hammermeister sang the Templar, a role that Marschner had written for him. Here Richard Wagner also heard him , who was impressed by him. From 1832 to 1835 he worked at the Royal Opera in Berlin, here too, Marschner’s Templar was performed with him in the leading role. From 1835 to 1840 Hammermeister was engaged at the Hamburg City Theater.
Artist: Kitzeron
Size 36 x 25 cms
Price £28.00
Ref: 3037
Wife and student of Manuel García, Eugénie (née Mayer) García (1818-1880) sang with the Opera Comique in Paris and became a noted singing teacher.
Artist: STAHLSTICH
Date:
Size 15 x 20 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2986
Johanna Buska was a German actress and opera singer.
Artist:
Date:
Size 12 x 16 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:3025
Daughter of Jean Baptist and Caroline Baison , was prepared for a career in the theater by her father. She first appeared on the stage in children’s roles at the Prague German State Theater in 1858
Artist: August Weger
Date:
Size 14 x 18 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:3024
Thoma (Therese) Börs (born 1850), soprano and music teacher in Leipzig, Moscow, Schwerin and Hanover.
Artist: Weger, Leizig 1880
Date:
Size 14 x 18 cms
Price £18.00
Ref:3003
Angelica Catalani was an Italian opera singer, the daughter of a tradesman. Her greatest gift was her voice, a soprano of nearly three octaves in range. Its unsurpassed power and flexibility made her one of the greatest bravura singers of all times. She also worked as a singing teacher.:
Size 7 x 9 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:341