Madame Nilsson Early Life and Opera Rise
A portrait of Madame Nilsson's youth and career from Swedish peasant beginnings to major stages. Describes early music lessons, patronage by Baroness Louhusen, studies in Halmstad Stockholm and Paris, debut as Violetta in 1864, roles in Zauberflote Martha Don Giovanni Ophelia Hamlet, and fame in Paris and the United States with a fortune briefly won before fires in Chicago and Boston. Also notes her discipline and strength as a performer and horsewoman.
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