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Maria Galvany or María Galvany (1878? - 2 November 1944〔J. B. Steane: ''Galvany, Maria'', in , Vol. 2, p.341.〕) was a Spanish coloratura soprano known for her showy, virtuoso singing technique. Her career, however, ended in obscurity. ==Her biography and operatic engagements== Very little is known about the life of this singer. It is generally accepted that she was born in 1878 in Granada, Spain, though the exact year and date of her birth are disputed (some sources give 1874 or 1876). She appears to have studied, however, at the Madrid Royal Conservatory under Lázaro María Puig and Napoleone Verger, and made her operatic debut in the title role of Gaetano Donizetti's ''Lucia di Lammermoor'' at Cartagena around 1896. While in Spain, her repertoire included operas such as ''La Sonnambula'', ''La Traviata'', ''Hamlet'', ''Lakmé'', and ''Les Huguenots'' (all sung in Italian). After becoming a favorite of the Spanish public, she went on to sing in Italy. Apparently she never sang at La Scala; instead, she performed at Milan's Teatro Dal Verme in 1901. Two years later, she performed with success at Parma in ''La Sonnambula'', alongside Piero Schiavazzi. During 1905 she toured parts of Europe, singing in the Netherlands, Belgium, and France as part of the Castellano Company, which also included tenor Nicola Zerola and soprano Adelina Agostinelli. Her 1908 Venice performance of Ophelia in Ambroise Thomas's ''Hamlet'' was particularly successful, as were her appearances in London. Although there is no historical evidence that she ever appeared at the Covent Garden Theatre, she sang in the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in 1909, performing in ''Dinorah'', ''Il Barbiere di Siviglia'' and ''La Sonnambula''. Later, she appeared at the Coliseum Theatre with Antonio Sabellico and Elvino Ventura as singing partners. Several other appearances in Lisbon, Nice and various Russian cities are also recorded. After this successful period in Europe, she embarked to South America, where she became especially popular in Brazil and Argentina. She allegedly performed only once in the United States, appearing in vaudeville in San Francisco during 1918, but she never managed to sing at New York's Metropolitan Opera House. At this point, information about her career dwindles. It is claimed that she settled in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where she probably became a singing teacher and gave occasional concerts. By the time of her death she was almost forgotten and the news of her death never appeared in the press. Until the 1990s it was commonly believed that she had died on November 2, 1949, in the San Luis Asylum, an old people's retirement home in Rio de Janeiro. However a Brazilian doctor, Jacques Alain León, claims that she was in fact killed by influenza in 1918, and that it was a dramatic soprano named Fanny Maria Rollas Galvani who actually died in 1949 in Rio. 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「Maria Galvany」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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