David, Felicien. (1810 - 1876) [Ugalde, Delphine. (1829 - 1910)]
"La Perle du Brésil" - Autograph Musical Quotation to Delphine Ugalde
AMQS from the important French composer to the celebrated soprano Delphine Ugalde, who created the title role in the quoted opera. Six measures from his "La Perle du Brésil," inscribed " à l'éminente cantatrice...pour laquelle le rôle de la Perle avait été écrit." With a small mounted trimmed albumen photogrph lower left. 31.5 x 12 cm. Fine.Ugalde "studied in Paris with Cinti-Damoreau and made her début in 1848 at the Opéra-Comique as Angèle in Auber’s Le domino noir, a role created by her teacher. In 1851 she sang at Her Majesty’s Theatre, London, as Delilah in Auber’s L’enfant prodigue. In 1858 she sang Leonora (Il trovatore) at the Paris Opéra and was then engaged at the Théâtre Lyrique. In 1863 she moved to the Bouffes-Parisiens, where in 1867 she sang in her own operetta, Halte au moulin. She retired in 1871." (Elizabeth Forbes, Grove Online) (12110)
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