Anna Maria Snoek (1779 – 1849) was a Dutch stage actress, ballet dancer and opera singer.Anna de Haas, Snoek, Anna Maria, in: Digitaal Vrouwenlexicon van Nederland. URL: http://resources.huygens.knaw.nl/bwn1880-2000/DVN/lemmata/data/SnoekAnnaMaria 3/01/2014/ref>

Life

Snoek was born to the skipper Joannes Snoek (d. 1780) and Helena de Ruijter (d. 1808) and was the sister of the actors

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and Helena Snoek. She was engaged at the

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in 1795–1849. Snoek was a star attraction of the theatre. As was common at the time, she was active both as a stage actor and as an opera singer. However, her main career was that of an actor: while she was often engaged to perform operatic parts when other opera singers were not available, her capability as an opera singer was regarded as a moderate one. As an actor, however, she was very successful, popular particularly in roles of sensitive and romantic heroines and then as tender mothers.

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