Bisbee daily review., 1907-09-24
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Christine Nilsson, Who Has Charmed Thousands of Americans With Her Sweet Voice May Be Near the End.

STOCKHOLM, Sept. 23.- The Countess de Miranda, better known as Christine Nilsson. who was world fa,r'esss years gears ao a ssfE sfFE-ea;;iie siez.a;;ie sing, CT. is dangerously i'll at her childhood home near the hamlet of Hussaby. on the southern confines of the Swedish peninsula. The Countess has been out of the public eye TOT twenty years now. but there are may who still preserve vivid recollection of how her exquisite voice thrilled large audi ences in all the capitals of Europe and in America in the seventies.
 The once famous singer IS now in her sixty-fifth year Her father was a peasant and she was rne eighth child. Her father was an impassioned admirer of music and it was from him that Christine learned the first scale of the musical notes. She began her public career as a child by singing at fairs and weddings under me direction of an elder rother. one day at a fair at Ljumby the singing of Christine at tracted the attention of a local mag istrate by the name of Thornerhjelm who saw her parents and arranged for the education of the young girl. She was first sent to an excellent school in Gothenberg. where she re- mained two years. Afterward she was sent to Stockholm, where she was instructed by NJ. Franz Berwald. She made her first appearance at Stock holm in 1860. went to Paris, continued her musical education under Masset and WurteI, and made her debut at the Theatre Lyrique, in OcJooer, 1864. as Violetta in the '"Traviata," with such success that she was engaged for three years. She made her nrst ap- pearance in London at Her Majesty's Theatre in 1867. and proved the great operatic attraction at that establish ment during the season. In 1870 she made her first visit to the United States, where, within less -nan year, she is said to have cleared nearly $2O0, ,0OO.
 Her first husband was NJ. Auguste Rouzaud, the son Of an eminent French merchant, to whom she was married in London in 1872. He died in Paris ten years later, and in 1887 she married Count Angel de Miranda. Miranda was a very unattractive little man, the son of a lady who was gov erness to the first wife of the late King of Spain and whom the latter raised to the ranb Of countess
 The story of Miranda's marriage with Christine Nilsson is. a peculiar one. He was her husband only in name, and never lived with her. The famous singer merely marr4ed him on account of his daughter. The latter was lovely girl whose acquaintance Christine made at Nice. The singer became devotedly attached to the girl and finally declared that she could not bear the idea of separation and proposed to adopt her. The Count de Miranda gave his consent, stipulating, however, that the singer should like wise adopt him as husbanu and pFo- vide for his financial welfare, under taking to remain her husband only in name. The arrangement was carried out according to agreement. With her marriage Christine retired rom the operatie stage and continued to divide her time between France and Spain. Of late years. however, she has made her homo altogether in Sweden.