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Blanche Roosevelt (2 October 1853 – 10 September 1898), born Blanche Roosevelt Tucker, was an American opera singer and author. ==Early life and opera career== Born in Sandusky, Ohio〔〔Most sources give Sandusky as her birthplace. Her memorial in Brompton Cemetery states that she was born in Virginia and gives her date of birth date as 2 October 1858〕 she traveled to Europe with her mother, Lizzie L. Tucker (''neé'' Roosevelt), for vocal studies in Paris and Milan.〔Stone, David. (Blanche Roosevelt ), Who Was Who in the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, 27 August 2001, accessed 1 July 2015〕 Her father was W. H. Tucker of Virginia, later, a state senator in Wisconsin.〔("Cause of Blanche Roosevelt's Death" ), ''The Milwaukee Journal, 12 September 1898, p. 8, accessed 1 July 2015〕 In 1876, billed as Mlle. Rosavella, she made her singing debut at the Royal Italian Opera House, Covent Garden, as Violetta in ''La Traviata''.〔Seeley, Paul. ("Blanche Roosevelt (1853 - 1898)" ), Memories of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, July 1980, accessed 1 July 2015〕 She was the first female American performer to sing Italian opera there.〔("Roosevelt, Blanche" ), The Androom Archives, 14 July 2012, accessed 1 July 2015〕〔"Blanche Roosevelt Dead: Well-Known American Singer and Writer, Married to the Marquis d'Alligri, Passes Away in London", ''The New York Times'', 11 September 1898〕 She went on to sing in concerts in Milan, Belgium, the Netherlands and Paris. She also worked as a special correspondent from Paris in 1875 for newspapers in Chicago and London.〔〔 Arthur Sullivan heard the soprano while on holiday in the south of France in the summer of 1879.〔 In September 1879, Roosevelt joined the D’Oyly Carte Opera Company and made her debut at the Opera Comique, as a replacement for Josephine during the original run of Gilbert and Sullivan's ''H.M.S. Pinafore''. She was then chosen by W. S. Gilbert, Sullivan, and Richard D'Oyly Carte to play Josephine for American audiences in the first authentic D’Oyly Carte ''Pinafore'' at New York’s Fifth Avenue Theatre, beginning on December 1, 1879. On December 31 of that year, in the same theatre, she created the role of Mabel in ''The Pirates of Penzance'', playing the character in New York and on tour until March 1880, and then left the Company.〔 Later in 1880, she founded and produced a new opera company, appearing in its productions, which were financial failures, of Alfred Cellier’s ''The Sultan of Mocha'' (Union Square Theatre, New York, September 1880) and B. C. Stephenson and Cellier’s grand opera adaptation of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s ''The Masque of Pandora'' (Boston Theatre, January 1881). During this project, Roosevelt became friends with Longfellow.〔("Concerning Celebrities – At Home and Abroad" ), ''Current Literature'': July–December 1888, Vol. 1, p. 20, Current Literature Publishing Company (1888)〕 Soon afterwards, she retired from the stage, largely at behest of her husband, Signor Macchetta, an Italian who had succeeded to the title of Marquis d'Alligri. She returned to Europe by 1882 and began a career in journalism and literature.〔〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Blanche Roosevelt」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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