Title: Autograph Musical Quote from "Lakme", Perhaps Her Most Significant Role, Penned by American Soprano Pauline L'Allemand.
Description: Philadelphia, PA: 19th November, 1886. 1886. - Nine bars of music penned on a six-sided piece of cream paper with the text written in English below the music. Inscribed "in kind remembrance of Pauline l'Allemand / Philadelphia 19th Nov 86." There is a diagonal crease & a light paper-clip mark near the left side of the paper. Its left edge is darkened. There are 3 light glue marks & surface rubbing to the verso where the paper has been removed from an album. Very good.
Pauline l'Allemand gave the first American performance of Delibes' opera "Lakme" at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia on November 17, 1886. This quotation from the opera, which was sung in English, was thus penned two days after the opening.
Born in Syracuse, NY, Pauline l'Allemand [1856-1944) made her debut as an operatic soprano in Stratton's "The Fairy Grotto" at Wieting Opera House in her home town. She subsequently studied singing in Dresden, Stuttgart and Paris. After successfully touring in Europe, she returned to America, performing "Lakme" in Philadelphia. After her attempt to create her own opera company failed, she retired to a farm in Black River Falls, Wisconsin with her grown son. They lived in extreme poverty and both were eventually pronounced insane and in 1920 were remanded to the Mendota State Hospital for the insane in Madison, Wisconsin. L'Allemand was memorialized in the cult classic "Wisconsin Death Trip" by Charles Van Schaick and Michael Lesy.
Rare. Very good .
Keywords: MUSIC; OPERA; SINGER; OPERATIC SOPRANO; PAULINE L'ALLEMAND; AUTOGRAPH MUSICAL QUOTATION; INSCRIBED; SIGNED; SIGNATURE; AMERICAN PREMIERE OF LAKME BY DELIBES; ACADEMY OF MUSIC, PHILADELPHIA.
- Book number: 34588
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