It was then at the Manhattan Opera House in 1909 with Luisa Tetrazzini, John McCormack, and Charles Gilibert, and again with Frieda Hempel and Antonio Scotti in the same roles at the Met on December 17, 1917.

On a crystal clear Christmas Eve in 1910, at the corner of Market and Kearney near Lotta's Fountain, Tetrazzini climbed a stage platform in a sparkling white gown, surrounded by a throng of an estimated two to three-hundred thousand San Franciscans, and serenaded the city she loved.

In 1907 Tetrazzini made a sensational debut as Violetta in La traviata at Covent Garden in London, where she was completely unknown, and from that point on she was an international operatic superstar, commanding the highest fees and selling out opera houses and concert halls wherever she performed.

In 1908, Tetrazzini finally appeared in New York, not at the Metropolitan, but at Oscar Hammerstein's Manhattan Opera Company, again as Violetta and again with great success.

Tetrazzini had a bitter feud with Nellie Melba at Covent Garden but was generally well liked by other colleagues, including Enrico Caruso and Frieda Hempel.

* Tetrazzini at archive. org

* Tetrazzini at archive. org

Tetrazzini was born in Florence, the daughter of a military tailor.

* April 28 – Luisa Tetrazzini, Italian opera singer ( b. 1871 )

Indeed, Adelina Patti and Luisa Tetrazzini were the only Italian sopranos to enjoy star status in London and New York in the late-Victorian and Edwardian eras, while such well-known compatriots and coevals of theirs as Gemma Bellincioni and Eugenia Burzio ( among several others ) failed to please Anglo-Saxon ears because, unlike Patti and Tetrazzini, they possessed unsteady, vibrato-laden voices — see Scott for evaluations of their respective techniques.

Luisa Tetrazzini ( June 29, 1871 – April 28, 1940 ) was an Italian coloratura soprano of great international fame.

Her first voice teacher was her elder sister, Eva Tetrazzini ( 1862 – 1938 ), who also was a successful singer.

Tetrazzini made her American debut in San Francisco in 1905.

At Boston, the Australian soprano Evelyn Scotney deputised for her in Lucia di Lammermoor, and the critics considered her " even better than Tetrazzini ", an indication of the esteem in which Tetrazzini's name was held.

Tetrazzini possessed an extraordinary vocal technique that enabled her to surmount any vocal challenge with almost insolent ease.

Tetrazzini was short and grew stout as she aged ; but she could act effectively on stage, especially in lively or comic roles.

After World War I, Tetrazzini largely abandoned the opera stage for the concert platform.

She would often say, " I am old, I am fat, but I am still Tetrazzini.

Tetrazzini died in Milan on April 28, 1940.

Luisa is thought to be eponymous of the popular American dish Turkey Tetrazzini, which allegedly originated in San Francisco, where she resided for years.

Additionally, there is a reference to Tetrazzini in the 1916 song " When Priscilla Tries to Reach High C ", written by Harry von Tilzer.

* Luisa Tetrazzini, 2 volumes: 1, 2 ; Nimbus.

* Luisa Tetrazzini: The Complete Zonophone ( 1904 ) and Victor Recordings ( 1911 – 20 ); Romophone.

* Luisa Tetrazzini singing along to a Caruso record of " M ' appari, Tutt ' Amor " when she retired in 1932.

That picture of the American prairie is as indelibly fixed in the memory of those who have studied the conquest of the American continent as any later cinema image of the West made in live-oak canyons near Hollywood.

Many years later ( on August 3, 1915 ), Lucy Upton wrote Winslow's daughter soon to be graduated from Smith College: `` While I love botany which, after dabbling in for years, I studied according to the methods of that day exactly forty years ago in a summer school, it must be fascinating to take up zoology in the way you are doing.

Dennis McKenna later studied the pharmacology, botany, and chemistry of ayahuasca and oo-koo-he, which became the subject of his master's thesis.

He began studying the Nahuatl language in 1925, and later, beginning in 1928, he studied the collections of Maya hieroglyphic texts.

This reaction was later studied in detail using modern techniques by the team at LBNL.

The Brer Rabbit stories of Joel Chandler Harris had been family favourites and she later studied his Uncle Remus stories and illustrated them.

She studied book illustration from a young age and developed her own tastes, but the work of the picture book triumvirate Walter Crane, Kate Greenaway and Randolph Caldecott, the last an illustrator whose work was later collected by her father, was a great influence.

He later developed plans for massive, independent tank operations, which he claimed was subsequently studied by the German military.

The great scholar Erasmus would later say that Catherine " loved good literature which she had studied with success since childhood ".

He later studied and worked alongside Georges Seurat and Paul Signac when he took on the Neo-Impressionist style at the age of 54.

Under Conner's tutelage, he studied military history and theory ( including Carl von Clausewitz's On War ), and later cited Conner's enormous influence on his military thinking, saying in 1962 that " Fox Conner was the ablest man I ever knew.

He then studied medicine in Berlin and Würzburg, particularly with Albert von Kölliker, Franz Leydig, Rudolf Virchow ( with whom he later worked briefly as assistant ), and with anatomist-physiologist Johannes Peter Müller ( 1801 – 1858 ).

The opportunities offered by the booming Hollywood film industry and, later, the threat of growing Nazi power led to the emigration of many important film artists working in Germany who had either been directly involved in the Expressionist movement or studied with its practitioners.

He studied and later lectured at Heythrop College and, seeing the poor standard of philosophical teaching in seminaries, wrote an influential nine-volume History of Philosophy ( 1946 – 75 ), which is highly respected.

He was educated at Melton Mowbray Grammar School and studied medicine at St Bartholomew's Medical College and later at Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

He also studied the works of Johann Kuhnau, Kantor of the Thomaskirche and city director of music in Leipzig ; in his later years, Telemann recounted how much he learned about counterpoint from Kuhnau's work.

In 1520, he entered the University of Pavia and later in Padua studied medicine.

The time she studied music could also have been the beginning of the compositions she would later create.

Instead, both Akbar and Jahangir studied this artwork very closely and replicated and adapted it, adopting much of the early iconographic features and later the pictorial realism for which Renaissance art was known.

In 1929 at the École Normale, he met Simone de Beauvoir, who studied at the Sorbonne and later went on to become a noted philosopher, writer, and feminist.

Marangella was born in Washington D. C. and first studied in France with Fernand Eché at the Conservatoire National de Musique d ’ Orléans, and later with Pierre Pierlot, Maurice Bourgue, and Etienne Baudo at the Conservatoire de Paris.

He later studied the instrument further with Felix Viscuglia, clarinetist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

He later developed his own style of Uechi-ryū karate based on the Sanchin, Seisan, and Sanseiryu kata that he had studied in China.

He was educated at the Hochschule für Musik Köln and the University of Cologne, and later studied with Olivier Messiaen in Paris, and with Werner Meyer-Eppler at the University of Bonn.

He studied composition at the Munich Academy in the 1920s with Joseph Haas, a pupil of Max Reger, and later he received enormous intellectual stimulus and encouragement from the conductor Hermann Scherchen, an ally of the Schoenberg school, with whom he had a nearly lifelong mentor-protégé relationship.