Thérèse Tietjens
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Thérèse Carolina Johanne Alexandra Tietjens was a leading opera and oratorio soprano. She made her career chiefly in London during the 1860s and 1870s, but her sequence of musical triumphs in the Brit
Thérèse Johanne Alexandra Tietjens standing
Tietjens as Lucrezia Borgia
Tietjens carte de visite
Lucrezia Borgia (opera)
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Lucrezia Borgia is a melodramatic opera in a prologue and two acts by Gaetano Donizetti. Felice Romani wrote the Italian libretto after the play Lucrezia Borgia by Victor Hugo, in its turn after the l
Thérèse Tietjens
…studied with Heinrich Proch, who was also the teacher of Mme Peschka-Leutner and other prime donne. She made a successful debut at Hamburg in 1849 as Lucrezia Borgia in Donizetti's opera, a work with which she was particularly associated all her professional life. She sang in Frankfurt from 1850 to 1856 and in Vienna…
Disegno per copertina di libretto, drawing for Lucrezia Borgia (undated)