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UMarie van Zandt

UMarie van Zandt (owazalwa uMarie van Zandt; 1858-1919) wayengumculi we-opera waseMelika owazalelwa eDashi owayene-soprano “encane kodwa eyakhiwe ngobuchule” (Brockhaus kanye ne-Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary).

UMaria Van Zandt wazalwa ngo-Okthoba 8, 1858 eNew York City kuJennie van Zandt, odume ngomsebenzi wakhe eLa Scala Theatre eMilan kanye neNew York Academy of Music. Kwakusemndenini lapho intombazane yathola khona izifundo zokuqala zomculo, bese iqeqeshwa eMilan Conservatory, lapho uFrancesco Lamperti eba uthisha wakhe wezwi.

Ukuqala kwakhe kwenzeka ngo-1879 eTurin, e-Italy (njengoZerlina eDon Giovanni). Ngemva kokuqala ngempumelelo, uMaria Van Zandt wadlala esiteji seTheatre Royal, Covent Garden. Kodwa ukuze kuzuzwe impumelelo yangempela ngaleso sikhathi, kwakudingeka enze DEBUT yakhe e-Paris, ngakho Maria wasayina inkontileka Opera Comic futhi wamenza waqalwa esiteji Paris ngo-March 20, 1880 ku-opera Mignon by Ambroise Thomas. . Ngokushesha, ikakhulukazi kuMaria van Zandt, uLeo Delibes wabhala i-opera ethi Lakme; yaqala ukuboniswa ngo-Ephreli 14, 1883.

Kwaphikiswana ngokuthi "ufaneleka kakhulu izindima zezinkondlo: u-Ophelia, uJuliet, uLakme, uMignon, uMarguerite."

UMaria Van Zandt wavakashela okokuqala eRussia ngo-1885 futhi wenza i-debut yakhe eMariinsky Theatre ku-opera Lakme. Kusukela ngaleso sikhathi, uye wavakashela eRussia ngokuphindaphindiwe futhi ubelokhu ecula ngempumelelo ekhulayo, okokugcina ngo-1891. U-Nadezhda Salina uyakhumbula:

“Amathalente ahlukahlukene amsiza ukuba afakwe kunoma yisiphi isithombe sasesiteji: waba nezinyembezi lapho uzwa umthandazo wakhe esigcawini sokugcina se-opera ethi “Mignon”; uhleke kakhulu lapho ehlasela uBartolo njengentombazane eguquguqukayo e-The Barber of Seville futhi wakushaya ngokufutheka kwewundlu lengwe lapho ehlangana nomuntu angamazi eLakma. Kwakuyimvelo ecebile engokomoya.”

Esiteji seMetropolitan Opera, uMaria van Zandt waqala ukubonakala njengo-Amina ku-La sonnambula kaVincenzo Bellini ngoDisemba 21, 1891.

EFrance, uVan Zandt wahlangana futhi waba umngane noMassenet. Ubambe iqhaza kumakhonsathi asekhaya abanjwe ezindaweni zokucwala izicukuthwane zaseParis, ngokwesibonelo, noMadame Lemaire, owavakashela uMarcel Proust, u-Elisabeth Grefful, uReynaldo Ahn, uCamille Saint-Saens.

Ngemva kokushada no-Count Mikhail Cherinov, uMaria Van Zandt washiya isiteji futhi wahlala eFrance. Wafa ngoDisemba 31, 1919 eCannes. Wangcwatshwa emathuneni asePere Lachaise.

Umfanekiso: Maria van Zandt. Isithombe sika-Valentin Serov