Elisa Pedra Zamacois y Zabala (29 April 1838 in Bilbao – November 1915 in Buenos Aires) was a Spanish singer and actress. She was half-sister of the writer

Niceto de Zamacois Juan Niceto de Zamacois y Urrutia (20 March 1820 in Bilbao – 29 September 1885 in Mexico City) was a Spanish journalist, playwright, poet, novelist and historian resident in Mexico. He was half-brother of the painter Eduardo Zamacois y Zabala, ...

, and sister of the painter

Eduardo Zamacois y Zabala Eduardo Zamacois y Zabala (2 July 1841 – 12 January 1871) was a Spanish Academic painter who specialized in small-scale canvases. He was the father of the French writer Miguel Zamacoïs, brother of the writer Niceto de Zamacois, the singer El ...

, and the actor Ricardo Zamacois, and also was aunt of the writers

Miguel Zamacoïs Miguel Zamacoïs (8 September 1866 in Louveciennes – 22 March 1955 in Paris) was a French writer, novelist, poet and journalist. He was the son of the Spanish painter Eduardo Zamacois y Zabala, nephew of the writer Niceto de Zamacois, the singe ...

and Eduardo Zamacois, and the music composer Joaquín Zamacois.

Biography

Elisa Pedra Zamacois y Zabala was born on 29 April 1838 in Bilbao, daughter of Miguel Antonio de Zamacois y Berreteaga, and his second wife, Ruperta María del Pilar de Zabala y Arauco. Her family moved to Madrid, where worked at Teatro de la Zarzuela. She played Galatea in the homonym play along Modesto Landa (

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), Vicente Caltañazor ( Midas) and Emilio Carratalá ( Ganymede). Between 1859 and 1884 she wrote ''Cartas de Elisa de Zamacois a Francisco A. Barbieri''. She was the sister of the actor Ricardo.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Zamacois, Elisa 1838 births 1915 deaths Basque singers Spanish sopranos 19th-century Spanish singers 19th-century Spanish actresses 20th-century Spanish actresses People from Bilbao Spanish stage actresses Actresses from the Basque Country (autonomous community)