The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1874-01-30
Death Of Parspa Rosa.

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Death Of Parepa Rosa
The prima donna who to the ge-
MUS and voice of an eminent lyric
artist adds the graces and virtues Of
= cultivated and afectionate woman,
is q character of sufficient import
auce in the world to make her death,
in the prime of life, a bereavement
which win be keenly felt far beyond
the circle of her relatives and imme-
diate personal friends. Madame
Euprosyne PsTepa Rosa, who died
in London on the 22d inst, will be
mourned wherever musical art has
found an intelligent appreciation.
Since the retirement Of Jenny Lind
from the public stage, no female
singer has occupied so advanced and
influential position in the worlds re-
gard as the gifted lady who has be-
come the leading exponent Of new
and higher phase of English opera
Madame Rosa was q native Of Ediu-
b1rgh, where she was born in 1889.
Her father was the Baron Boyesku,
Wallachian nobleman with an in
tense passion for the study of medi-
cine, and her mother was a sister Of
the eminent bass singer Seguin, who
first introduced English opera in
America. Soon after the birth Of
Euphrosyne, her father died, and her
mother, being left dependent upon
hsz own efforts for support, returned
t. che stage, assuming at the same
sine the name Psrepa, from an old
el.stle belonging to her family. The
fsmily Of the Baron, which had not
previously looked with favor upon
| dis marriage with an opera singer,
Offered. 70 take charge of his child,
but the mother refuse to give her up,
and proceeded to give her thorough
musical education. The young girl
advanced rapidly and in her eigh-
teenth year made her debut in Som
nambula at Malta. Her success from
the first was almost phenomenal.
When, after a brief engagement at
Naples, she returnedstO Malta, she
was fairly overwhelmed with the ap-
plause and devotion Of the enthusi-
astic Islanders. Thence she went
to Florence, where she sang with
Antonucci, then at the very pinnacle
Of fame; thence to Lisbon, where
she sang in public duet with King
/ Ferdinand, who was not without am
bition as a virtuOso. Her first ap-
pearanee in London in 1857, estab-
| lished her reputation, and since that
| time she has been regarded as one
] Of the great queens of song. After
three years Of uninterrupted success
/ in all the great musical cities Of Eu-
rope, she abandoned Italian opera
| for q time and began her career as 8
concert singer at London on Ash
Wednesday, 1860, under the manage
ment of Howard Glover. Her next
| essay was English opera, in which
she sang for three years at Convent
| Garden, London, as a member Of the
| lLouiss Pyne and Harrison combine
tion, and in 1865 came to America
to conquer and entrance the the mu-
sid lovers of the new world. Great
singers from Europe were not then
80 common in this country as now,
and Erom her first appearance in New
York she was the favorite Of the
American public. She married rev.
eral years ago Carl Rosa, an accom-
plished violinist and musical direc-
tor, and with the true Womanliness
that always shone so brightly in her
character, abandoned her stage name
and took that of her husband in pub
lie as we'll as in private. SignOr Rosa
and his wife continued to give con-
certs, and in 1912 organized by far
the ablest English opera troupe that
has ever been heard in this country.
| Their memorable Easter season at
| New York in the Spring Of 1879,
gave bV far the grsndest interpreSa-
ton of English opera that has been
listened too on this side of the At
lantic.
i The immediate cause of the death
of Madame Rosa Is not definitely
stated, but from the fact that she be-
came the mother only q few days
since of a child which did not sur
vive its birth, it may fairly be pre-
sumed that her last illness was the
result of her confinement. As an
astiste Madame Rosa was q clear,
high soprano, with a voice of wonder
full sweetness and "'carrying" power.
Her limpid, aexible tones, soft and
plaiative as the notes Of bird, could
be heard at the farthest corner Of q
crowded hall, and when she rose to
the strong dramatic passages OF op-
era, her voice, without ever beeom-
| ing harsh or stridentpierced through
and above the crash Of orchestra and
chorus with wonderful clearness and
effect. Not merely as a great songs
tress, but as q refined, afectiOnate
woman, ,Parepa Rosa will be mourned
che nos kuown