GREAT SWEDISH SOPRANO CHRISTINE NILSSON MET OPERA STAR RARE LARGE 1883 PHOTO

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GREAT SWEDISH SOPRANO CHRISTINE NILSSON MET OPERA STAR RARE LARGE 1883 PHOTO:
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A rare large original Woodburytype photograph circa 1883 of the great 19th century Swedish opera soprano Christine Nilsson, who sang Margherita in Faust at the 1883 opening of the Metropolitan Opera in New York. Dimensions of backing eight by four and three quarters inches with image four and a half by three and a half inches. Light wear and light creasing otherwise good.

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From Wikipedia:

Christina Nilsson, Countess de Casa Miranda, (20 August 1843 - 20 November 1921) was aSwedishoperaticsoprano. She possessed a brilliantbel cantotechnique and was considered a rival to the Victorian era\'s most famousdiva,Adelina Patti. Nilsson became a member of theRoyal Swedish Academy of Musicin 1869.

Christina Nilsson was bornKristina Jonasdotterin the village ofSjöabol, nearVäxjö,Småland, to the peasants Jonas Nilsson and Cajsa-Stina Månsdotter. From her earliest years, she demonstrated vocal talent. She taught herself to play on the violin and flute, and sang in the peasants\' fairs in Sweden with her brother. She was discovered by a prominent civil servant when, aged 14, she was performing at a market inLjungby. He soon became her patron, enabling her to have vocal training. She was a pupil ofFranz Berwaldfor two years.

In 1860, she gave concerts inStockholmandUppsala. After four years\' study inParis, she had her operatic début 1864 as Violetta inGiuseppe Verdi\'s operaLa Traviataat theThéâtre Lyrique, Paris. After this success she sang at major opera houses inLondon,Saint Petersburg,ViennaandNew York. She also appeared in the Metropolitan Opera\'s inaugural performance on October 22, 1883 inGounod\'sFaust.

Christina Nilsson was married inWestminster Abbeyto the French banker Auguste Rouzaud, who later died in 1882. In 1887 she married Angel Ramon Maria Vallejo y Miranda, Count de Casa Miranda, who died in 1902. In correspondence, Nilsson often signed her first name asChristine, and during the last part of her life she was generally known as the Countessde Casa Miranda.

She died in Vaxjo, Sweden in 1921. Unfortunately, unlike Patti, she never made gramophone recordings of her voice.

In culture

There are many similarities between Nilsson and the character ofChristine DaaéinGaston Leroux\'s novelPhantom of the Opera, and many believe Leroux based the character on the real-life opera singer, although evidence for this is unverified.