Wilhelm Ganz in Covent Garden - 10 May, 1855

from Memories of a Musician: Reminiscences of Seventy years of Musical Life, page 25:

In 1855 came the first performance of Il Trovatore. I was asked to teach Madame Neybürde, a prima donna from Dresden, the part of Leonora, which I did. She had a magnificent and powerful soprano voice. Madame Viardot Garcia was superb as Azucena, Signor Tamberlik was the Trovatore, and Signor Graziani (the incomparable baritone) sang the part of the Conte di Luna.

cite as

Wilhelm Ganz, Memories of a Musician: Reminiscences of Seventy years of Musical Life. In Internet Archive (London, 1913), p. 25. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1435930107895 accessed: 28 March, 2024

location of experience: Covent Garden

Listeners

Wilhelm Ganz
Accompanyist, Composer, Conducting, Teacher
1833-1914

Listening to

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Il Trovatore
written by Giuseppe Verdi
performed by Enrico Tamberlik, Francesco Graziani, Jenny Burde-Ney, Pauline Viardot

Experience Information

Date/Time 10 May, 1855
Medium live
Listening Environment in the company of others, indoors, in public

Originally submitted by sp327 on Fri, 03 Jul 2015 14:28:28 +0100
Approved on Mon, 16 Nov 2015 13:55:43 +0000