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CMA KLASSIK KISS Classical Music Autographs EXTREMLY RARE ORIGINAL 1862 ON HER OWN STATIONARY LETTER OF THE HUNGARIAN ORIGIN GOLDEN AGE SOPRANO Tse Tietjens professionally matted with a photo ThÃ©rÃ¨se Johanne Alexandra Tietjens ( July 17 , 1831 âe" October 3 , 1877 ) was a leading opera and oratorio soprano singer of Hungarian origin who was born in Hamburg , but made her career in London during the 1860s and 1870s.Mme Tse Tietjens received her vocal training in Hamburg and in Vienna . She 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 from 1856-1859.Tietjens made her first appearance in London in 1858, as Valentine in Les Huguenots . England tafter became her home, and she continued to sing in opera regularly until her untimely death in 1877 at Her Majesty's Theatre , the Drury Lane and Covent Garden . She was equally fine in oratorio , and became a leading dramatic soprano in England during the 1860s and early 1870s on both stage and platform. The early part of her London career coincided with the heyday of the tenor Antonio Giuglini (1827-1865), a student of Cellini, who made his debut at Her Majesty's in 1857 as Fernando in La Favorita . In July 1859, Tietjens created the first London Elena in Les vepres siciliennes of Verdi (four years after the original Paris production) at Drury Lane , opposite Giuglini's Arrigo.At this time the soprano Giulia Grisi was still singing in London: Tietjens was to inherit parts of her London repertoire and of that of Giuditta Pasta . In 1860 E.T. Smith, manager of Her Majesty's, attempted to seize the market in both English and Italian opera by having two companies alternating. The Italian opera began with Il trovatore , with Tietjens, Mme Lemaire, Guiglini and the baritone Vialetti, and the team then progressed to Don Giovanni , while the English opera premiered Macfarren 's Robin Hood with Sims Reeves . On 15 June 1861 Tietjens was the first London Amelia, opposite Giuglini's Riccardo, and the Renato of Enrico delle Sedie (a singer of great style, musicianship and talent but limited vocal range) in the original Lyceum Ballo in maschera for Mapleson .In her ideal role as Lucrezia, Tietjens led the cast at the London debut of Zelia Trebelli (Orsino) in 1862. In that year Herman Klein , aged 15, saw her in Les Huguenots and forty years later described his realisation then, that she was a tragedienne of the highest order. His teacher had described her 'I know that my redeemer liveth' to him with wonder. On 14 July 1862 at the 50th Jubilee concert for the Philharmonic Society , she sang the Mendelssohn Loreley (with choir) and With joy the impatient husbandman from Haydn 's The Seasons . This was at St James's Hall Piccadilly, conducted by William Sterndale Bennett : other soloists were Charles Santley , Joseph Joachim , Jenny Lind , Mrs Anderson (pianist) and the 'cellist Piatti .1863 saw the first Gounod 's Faust in England, at Her Majesty's, with Tietjens as Marguerite, Guiglini (Faust), Santley (Valentin), Edouard Gassier (Mephistopheles) and Trebelli (Siebel). This production was transferred to Covent Garden and was performed in every successive season until 1911. In the same season Tietjens created the role of Selvaggia in the opera Niccolo de' Lapi by Francesco Schira (conductor at Drury Lane ), also with Trebelli, Giuglini and Santley (Niccolo). (This work was revived with far greater success as Selvaggia in Milan 1875.) T was more Il trovatore , a Norma (one of Tietjens's finest roles) with Desiree Artot (making her debut that year also as Violetta and Marie ) (mezzo) as Adalgisa, and Weber 's Oberon with Sims Reeves (Huon), the immortal Marietta Alboni (Fatima), Trebelli (Puck), the tenor Bettini (w... read more

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