Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-01-29

teacher. Indeed she was well fitted for
that Office, having studied incessantly
| for four years under such masters as
CrescentiHi, Panseron and Bordogni,
The training of vocalist for. the stage
in Europe is something so severe in IT,.
self that if public had heart not made
outright of stone it ought TO accord u
success to every blessed warbler of
them, if only for the heroism of the
effort they have made. Parepa was no
exception, Notwithstanding the wonder
full precocity Of her musical intellect, and
the phenomenal formation of her vocal
organs made her, like Jenny Lind, a
prima donna by intuition. Drill was
necessary, however, aDd at last, when,
at fifteen, it was decided to bring her
out as an operate soprano, she was
made to undergo a course of vocal
gymnastics, before which the most of
our sopranos who sing With verdure
clad" and Una voce" at our amateur
concerts, or even many who travel abo ut
the country with their Luce di quest :
and their /" Comm thro' the rye" would
quail in abject terror. For eight months
previous to studying her op cratic roper
tory, Euphrosyne was allow ed TO sing no
note Of anything but exc rcises-eXer-
cises-exercises. But the reader must
understand she had plenty of them, so
that she did not suffer for IN usical pabu-
lum. Before she made hei debut she
had acquired (memorized) tie melodies
Of forty principal operas.
Her debut in England in 1855 was so
promising and brought her in to such inn
mediate popularity, that engagements
poured upon her thick and ia st, and she
at once became the lyric attraction of the
day. In Italian opera for years-in fact
until lS59-she held an h onored positiona
HER FIRST APPEARANCE IN ENGLISH
OPERA.
Up to this time Parepa had been sing
ing in Italian opera only, holding it,
doubtless, in that high and exclusive es-
TEEN which the devotees Of the Italian
have for that school of opera. But
pecuniary inducement, or some other,
took her to London, whe re, early in
1860, she made her first appearance in
English opera, under the Pyne and
Harrison administration. The opera
season being over, Mile sang on Ash
Wednesday in Howard GIL over con-
cert. The summer was dev oted to con-
certs, oratorios and festival in the me-
tropolis and in the PROVINCES In fact,
three winters passed away with Parepa
still the soprano OF the Pyn e and Har-
rison troupe, and the varyinRl ly success
full opera seasons alternating with the
more remunerative concerning and ora
torio business.
In 1863 she married Captain Carvil,
an officer in the East Indian service,
Just retired. He was brilliant and prom
ising, and most respectfully connected.
The venerable Edward Seguin, Parepa's
grandfather, then in his eighty-tifth
year, gave the bride away. Carvil, un-
fortunately, soon after developed an un-
controllable passion for speculation,
and in short time had sunk nearly
G25, ,000-their whole fortune-in some
Peruvian mining shares. Indeed, he
betook himself to Lima, after living
seven months with the bride, and she
never saw him more He died in April,
1865. Their child, too, was buried, and
the doubly bereft young widow soon re-
turned to the stage, both to repair her
scattered fortunes and to divert her ac-
tive mind from her domestic griefs.
HER SECOND MARRIAGE.
After two years successful concert
tour to this country the great prima
donna married Mr.. Carl Rosa, the dis
tinguished violinist Her second mar
riage proved happy in every sense of the
word, and with her husband as mana
ger she sang for two seasons in English
opera, aud for few weeks on the Ital-
ian ota0a