Monday, April 8, 2013

In memoriam Zelia Trebelli (born Zelia Gilbert, Paris 1838, d.1892)

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ZELIA TREBELLI


Zelia Trebelli (born Zelia Gilbert) was a French opera singer.

She was born in 1838 at Paris and died in 1892.

She studied singing under Wartel, and made her first stage appearance in 1859 at Madrid.

From 1860 until 1861 she performed with marked success in Germany, before playing Lucrezia in London in 1862.

She travelled to the USA in 1878 and again in 1884 and made her last appearance in London in 1889.

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