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Jenny Dufau
Jenny Dufau (18 July 1878 – 29 August 1924) was an opera singer born in Germany who found her success in Chicago. Early life and education Dufau was born on 18 July 1878 in Rothau, Alsace-Lorraine, the daughter of linen merchant Alfred Dufau. As a girl, she trained to work as a Pottery, potter, her father's trade. She studied music in Berlin with Etelka Gerster and made her debut in 1906 at Weimar as Queen in ''Les Huguenots''. She also studied with Mathilde Marchesi, Paul Vidal, and Alessandro Guagni Benvenuti. Career Dufau began her career in 1910 in Italy at the Teatro Vittorio Emanuele in Ancona, as Filina in ''Mignon''. In 1910 and 1911 she performed in various Italian houses and at Lirico of Bucharest and Royal of Ātene, Atene. At the end of 1911 she went to the United States, engaged by Andreas Dippel for the Chicago Grand Opera Company. In Chicago, Dufau was a lead soprano, nicknamed the "smallest soprano". She performed in operas such as ''Die Walküre'', ''Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German Empire
The German Empire (),Herbert Tuttle wrote in September 1881 that the term "Reich" does not literally connote an empire as has been commonly assumed by English-speaking people. The term literally denotes an empire – particularly a hereditary empire led by an emperor, although has been used in German to denote the Roman Empire because it had a weak hereditary tradition. In the case of the German Empire, the official name was , which is properly translated as "German Empire" because the official position of head of state in the constitution of the German Empire was officially a "presidency" of a confederation of German states led by the King of Prussia who would assume "the title of German Emperor" as referring to the German people, but was not emperor of Germany as in an emperor of a state. –The German Empire" ''Harper's New Monthly Magazine''. vol. 63, issue 376, pp. 591–603; here p. 593. also referred to as Imperial Germany, the Second Reich, as well as simply Germany, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
