![]() The second concert took place on 13 September. It was the first of two charity concerts. At the Castle Garden Theatre in New York City (now known as the Castle Clinton). Jenny Lind makes her American Debut in New York City. Her upcoming concerts had been heavily promoted by P.T. Her ship The Atlantic docked on this day. He lived at an apartment in Chaillot and he would die in October of that year. Other singers were Filippo Coletti and Italo Gardini. Jenny Lind sang the part of Amalia and Luigi Lablache was Massamiliano. Verdi conducted the first two performances himself. The libretto was written by Andrea Maffei and it was based on Schiller's play "Die Räuber". Premiere of Verdi's opera "I masnadieri" at Her Majesty's Theatre in London. Jenny Lind is Marie in Donizetti's "La Fille du Regiment" at Her Majesty's theatre in London The queen was there and so was Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy. Jenny Lind is Alice in Meyerbeer's "Robert Il Diavolo" at Her Majesty's Opera House in London. It was organised by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy. ![]() Jenny Lind sings at a Gewandhaus concert in Leipzig. Richard Wagner sees Jenny Lind in Berlin in "Don Giovanni" and in "Norma". The ceremony was attended by King Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia, Queen Victoria, Prince Albert, Hector Berlioz, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Ignaz Moscheles, Charles Hallé, Jenny Lind, Pauline Viardot, Lola Montez, Robert Schumann, Felix Mendelssohn and Maria Kalergis. Professor Heinrich Breidenstein, who had first expressed the idea, took over his position. Schlegel had been the head of the organising committee but he died in May, 1845. ![]() ![]() Franz Liszt was actively involved in the project and donated over 10,000 francs. It was created by Ernst Hähnel and unveiled in honour of the 75th anniversary of Beethoven's birth. Jenny Lind sings the part of Norma in Berlinīeethoven statue in Bonn unveiled. It was suggested that they started an affair and that their secret love in combination with the death of his sister Fanny speedened his own death. was a friend of Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felixįirst meeting between Felix Mendelssohn and Jenny Lind. She was the best singer the world had ever heard. Nickname was 'The Swedish Nightingale' and according to some Until 1907 and was buried beside her in Great Malvern. In 1883 they moved their home to Wynds Point in Professor at the new Royal College of Music where she taught Settled in England Jenny didn't sing in opera's anymore and Moved to a large house in South Kensington. In England their daughter Jenny wasīorn in 1856 and their son Ernest in 1861. Where they lived at several addresses before they settled near Otto Goldsmith replaced Julius BenedictĪs her pianist in 1851 and they married in Boston on. Gave 93 concerts under the management of P.T. He was in London and there were rumours of an affair.ġ850 she sailed to the USA where she toured extensively. In 1848 she spent a lot of time with Chopin when She had becomeĪ close friend of Felix Mendelssohn and was shocked by his earlyĭeath in 1847. In 1844 she made a successful tour in GermanyĪnd in from 1847 to 1849 she toured in England. He fell in love with her, but she wanted to be no more than Toured in Denmark in 1843 and there she met Hans Christian Andersen. Was rejected at the Opera of Paris she returned to Stockholm. With whom she studied in Paris from 1841 to 1843. But her voice was damaged because she used it too Success came quickly and she became court singer to The opera in Stockholm in 1838 as Agathe in "Der Freischütz"īy Weber. When Jenny was nine she was overheard singing by the maid ofĪ mademoiselle Lundberg, who was an important dancer at the Mother had divorced her first husband but only married her father Niclas Jonas Lind and schoolteacher Anne-Marie Fellborg. The soprano Jenny Lind was the illegitimate child of bookkeeper GRAVE LOCATION Great Malvern, Worcestershire: Cemetery, Madresfield Road (plot 3, grave number 1264) BORN, Stockholm: Klara - DIED, Malvern, Worcestershire: Wynds Point
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