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	Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
		In Albany, Emma was hired as soloist for the parish church of St Joseph, where for three years she sang, played the organ, and directed the choir.
		Emma unhesitatingly followed the advice of her elocution teacher, Delorenzi, and took the stage name of Albani for her Italian debut, thereby perpetuating the name of an old Italian family of which only one member was still alive.
		Emma married Ernest Gye, the son of the director of the Royal Italian Opera, on 6 Aug. 1878.
	www.biographi.ca /EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=42063 (2736 words)

	Dame Emma Albani
		Soprano Emma Albani was born Marie-Louise-Emma-Cécile Lajeunesse in Chambly, Quebec, on November 1, 1847.
		Emma was greatly saddened by the death of her father-in-law, and so when her son was born on June 4, 1879, he was christened Frederick-Ernest.
		Emma appeared as Desdemona in Otello on opening night, and she later appeared with the troupe in New York as Amina and as Marguerite in Gounod's Faust.
	sopranos.freeservers.com /albani.htm (790 words)

	Emma Albani - Biographies - The Virtual Gramophone
		Emma and her sister Cornelia were allowed to attend the convent and were able to obtain a relatively high level of education free of charge.
		Emma's talent for music was instantly apparent to the nuns -- to the extent that she was soon barred from participating in the convent's music competitions because she won so often.
		Emma was particularly pleased with her new last name because it so closely resembled the name of the city of Albany, where she had received such generous support.
	www.collectionscanada.gc.ca /gramophone/m2-1054.1-e.html (976 words)

	Albani, Dame Emma
		Dame Emma Albani, opera singer (born Marie-Emma Lajeunesse on November 1, 1847, at Chambly, Canada East [Quebec]; died on April 3, 1930, at London, England).
		Lajeunesse took the stage name Emma Albani at a time when people thought an Italian name was necessary for a singing career.
		Albani first sang in public at the age of nine, at the Mechanics' Hall in Montreal.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /PrinterFriendly.cfm?Params=J1ARTJ0000110 (183 words)

	Emma Albani - Biographies - The Virtual Gramophone
		For example, in 1883, Albani arrived at the train station in Montréal to find a cheering crowd who escorted to her hotel, where she was met by another crowd so dense that she had to be carried over the heads of people into the building.
		Albani was already past her prime when she made these recordings -- in fact, as early as 1896, there was evidence that her voice was beginning to deteriorate.
		Emma Albani's early successes in opera, her relationships with esteemed composers and musicians, and the devoted audiences that attended her performances for forty years are a testament to her professionalism and her extraordinary musical abilities.
	www.collectionscanada.ca /gramophone/m2-1054.4-e.html (991 words)

	The Canadian Opera Career of Emma Albani
		Emma Lajeunesse was born in Chambly, Quebec, in 1847.
		Albani’s first triumphs were in Italy in 1869, followed by her success in Paris and London in 1872.
		Albani sang the role of Valentine in the Meyerbeer opera, the same role that was her definitive farewell to the opera stage at Covent Garden on July 24, 1896.
	www.scena.org /lsm/sm6-2/emma-en.html (1536 words)

	Maude Abbott 1868
		Emma Albani to sceniczne imię Marii Luizy Emmy Cecilii Lajeunesse, śpiewaczki operowej o przepięknym lirycznym sopranie, którym zachwyciła cały niemal świat na przełomie XIX i XX wieku.
		Emma Albani wyróżniona była wieloma nagrodami, miedzy innymi Złotym Medalem Królewskiego Towarzystwa Filharmonicznego, którym odznaczony został również słynny kompozytor niemiecki, Johannes Brahms.
		Emma Albani była przyjaciółką i ulubioną śpiewaczką królowej Victorii, która w swoim testamencie poprosiła, żeby Emma zaśpiewała na jej pogrzebie (w 1901 roku).
	www.polonialife.ca /kobiety_albani.htm (1057 words)

	CM Magazine: Emma Albani: International Star. (The Quest Library, 16).
		Emma Albani was born Emma Lajeunesse in Chambly, Quebec, in the year 1847 (she changed her name to Albani when studying in Italy because she felt it would be more appealing to European opera lovers).
		It is written with an educational audience in mind and emphasizes the long and difficult preparation that Emma had to go through before she achieved success in her career.
		Emma's story is told in the first person, as if she herself was recounting the highlights of her life, and this approach makes the text more lively than many biographies.
	www.umanitoba.ca /outreach/cm/vol8/no21/emma.html (318 words)

	Albani, Emma
		On her father's side she belonged to the seventh Canadian generation of the Lajeunesse family; the first of that name to arrive in Canada, Étienne Charles, called Lajeunesse and born in Brittany in 1649, had married Madeleine Niel in Trois-Rivières, Que, in 1667.
		On Albani's mother's side her grandmother, Rachel McCutcheon, was descended from a family of Scottish origin established over many years in Plattsburgh, NY.
		After studying in Paris and Milan, Albani embarked on a career which took her to the world's most famous opera houses.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=U1ARTU0000033 (166 words)

	Emma Albani Biography
		Dame Emma Albani (November 1, 1847 - April 3, 1930), was a leading soprano of the 19th century and early 20th century, the first Canadian singer to become an international star.
		She began her musical studies with her father at the age of four, then was in a convent between 1858 and 1865 (her mother having died in 1856).
		In 1925, Emma Albani was made a Dame Commander of the British Empire, but in the same year Ernest died and her money was lost in bad investments.
	www.biographybase.com /biography/Albani_Emma.html (336 words)

	Emma Lajeunesse Albani - Women's Exhibition - Celebrating Women's Achievements
		She performed publicly in the 1850s and 1860s around Montreal and was engaged as a soloist for three years at a church in Albany, New York, before leaving in 1868 to pursue advanced musical studies in Paris and later Milan.
		In 1871, at age 24, Albani was offered a contract with London's prestigious Covent Garden opera house, with which she would be affiliated from 1872 until 1896.
		In a career that spanned four decades, she sang 43 different roles in 40 operas, and was also highly acclaimed for her oratorio and recital performances.
	www.talkaboutcanada.ca /quiz/hosted_pages/collections_canada/women/002026-208-e.html (407 words)

	Folio: Real divas don't doubt themselves \| May 18, 2001
		Albani graduated from the church-hall circuit and made her debut at the prestigious Covent Garden opera house in London in 1872.
		Emma’s father Joseph, a single parent, began instructing Emma in music when she was just four.
		And Albani did succeed: she appeared in more than 43 roles in 40 operas, became a favourite of Queen Victoria and ended the Victorian era by singing at the monarch’s funeral.
	www.ualberta.ca /~publicas/folio/38/18/front.html (892 words)

	Forty years of song / Emma Albani ; with a discography by W. R. Moran.
		Dame Emma Albani Gye, born of French-Canadian parentage in Chambly, near Montreal, was one of the few Canadian singers to achieve world-wide fame and success in the last quarter of the 19th century.
		The townspeople of Albany, where the family moved when she was in her teens, helped her finance a trip to Paris where she studied with the great French tenor Duprez, and later on with Lamperti in Milan.
		Her discussion of preparing Mignon, then a "new opera," with the composer, or the performance of works explicitly composed for her by Gounod and Dvorak are of historical interest.
	www.ayerpub.com /Product.asp?ProductID=4400000016722 (172 words)

	Emma Lajeunesse Albani - Women's Exhibition - Celebrating Women's Achievements
		She performed publicly in the 1850s and 1860s around Montreal and was engaged as a soloist for three years at a church in Albany, New York, before leaving in 1868 to pursue advanced musical studies in Paris and later Milan.
		In 1871, at age 24, Albani was offered a contract with London's prestigious Covent Garden opera house, with which she would be affiliated from 1872 until 1896.
		In a career that spanned four decades, she sang 43 different roles in 40 operas, and was also highly acclaimed for her oratorio and recital performances.
	www.collectionscanada.ca /women/002026-208-e.html (407 words)

	Emma Albani - Biographies - The Virtual Gramophone
		In 1883, Emma Albani travelled to Montréal and performed at Queen’s Hall.
		For over forty years, Canadian singer Emma Albani enjoyed enormous success on the live stage, making history as the first Canadian opera singer to achieve international status.
		In her memoirs, Albani wrote "I have married an Englishman, and have made my home in England, but I still remain at heart a French-Canadian".
	www.collectionscanada.gc.ca /gramophone/m2-1054-e.html (135 words)

	CBC Radio: Wagner's Ring - Wagner Singers
		Emma Albani - who was born in Chambly, Quebec - was the first Canadian-born artist to achieve international fame.
		Although her repertoire focused on Mozart operas and the bel canto operas of Rossini, Donizetti and Bellini, Emma began to familiarize herself with Wagner’s music, first learning the role of Elsa in Lohengrin in two weeks and performing the role in New York in 1874.
		On November 23, 1891, Emma Albani made her official debut with the Metropolitan Opera on tour in Meyerbeer’s Les Huguenots.
	www.cbc.ca /thering/singers.html (2461 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Country in Her Throat: Books: Simon Fortin,Bill Glassco (Site not responding. Last check: )
		She was born in 1847 in Chambly, Quebec, as Emma Lajeunesse and made her debut at Covent Garden in 1872 at the age of 25.
		Fortin refracts Albani's bright career through the memories of her sister Cornelia, a pianist who accompanied, in both senses, the soprano throughout her early career, and arrived in London with her.
		The country in Emma's throat is both the idealized country of art, and also the very real country that they left behind and to which they can never return.
	www.amazon.ca /Country-Her-Throat-Simon-Fortin/dp/1896239013 (209 words)

	Albani
		EMMA ALBANI, the stage name of MARIE, LOUISE EMMA CECILE LAJEUNESSE (born 1847), Canadian singer, who was born at Chambly, in the province of Quebec, on the 27
		In 1897 she was awarded the gold Beethoven medal by the London Philharmonic Society, “as a mark of appreciation of her exceptional genius and musical attainments, and of her generous and artistic nature.” She married in 1878 Ernest Gye, the theatrical manager.
		Her stage name of Madame Albani was taken from that of an extinct Italian family.
	www.danielmcadam.com /albani.html (206 words)

	Information about Canada FDC: 17¢ Emma Albani (Site not responding. Last check: )
		She studied in Paris and Milan and, in 1870, when she made her operatic dubut, she chose the stage name, Emma Albani, in honor of the city where she had received help to begin her professional career.
		Two years later Emma Albani made her London debut at Covent Garden under the guidance of the impresario, Frederick Gye.
		In 1883, Emma Albani, by now a renowned opera star, returned to her native land and was so enthusiastically received throughout Canada that she repeated her popular tours in 1889, 1897 and 1903.
	www.unicover.com /EA4NBVIB.HTM (437 words)

	Open Writing: Emma Albani
		Peter Wintersgill tells us something of the singer Emma Albani who made her Covent Garden debut in 1872....
		Was spent in Albany, New York, from which city she took her stage name.
		Emma Albani was made a Dame of the British Empire in 1925.
	www.openwriting.com /archives/2008/03/emma_albani_1.php (199 words)

	Dame Marie Louise Cecilie Emma Albani (née Lajeunesse) (1852-1930), Opera singer
		Marie Louise Cecil Emma Lajeunesse was born in Quebec, Canada.
		Appointed at the age of sixteen as a soloist and organist and choirmaster of a church in Albany.
		From 1852 Albani sang for five seasons at Covent Garden and appeared there nearly every Spring until her retirement from opera in 1896, also singing in Paris, Brussels, Berlin, St Petersburg and America.
	www.npg.org.uk /live/search/person.asp?LinkID=mp51190 (208 words)

	Nimbus Records, Prima Voce, NI 7860, Emma Eames & Pol Plançon - Booklet Note
		He studied first with Gilbert Duprez, leading French tenor of his time and one of the leading teachers (another of his pupils was Emma Albani).
		Her father was a lawyer, her mother an amateur musician, both American, and when Emma was five years old the family returned to the USA.
		Newton met Emma Eames at the London house of the critic Desmond Shawe-Taylor, whom she visited in 1937.
	www.wyastone.co.uk /nrl/pvoce/7860c.html (1770 words)

	Emma Lajeunesse Albani
		However, you would take comfort in finding that this memory is now safely stored, in print, and can be rekindled at any point in time in the future.
		I would not hesitate to assert, in class, that you were the first person born in Canada, ever to achieve international fame.
		But if this global success was achieved because of a voice, an astonishing coloratura voice, is it not ironic that it all began, not in French Canada where no such achievement was considered likely by your father, but as a church singer in Albany, N.Y..
	www.fawi.net /ezine/vol3no3/Ferland.html (276 words)

	Albani, Dame Emma
		A profile of Dame Emma Albani, Canadian Opera star of the 19th century.
		Emma (Lajeunesse) Albani, Canadian opera singer, is profiled at this Library and Archives Canada website.
		Includes a sound clip of her in performance.
	www.canadianencyclopedia.ca /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0000110SUBLinks (82 words)

	Emma Albani by Cheryl Emily MacDonald, New, Used Books, Cheap Prices, ISBN 0919670741
		Emma Albani: Victorian Diva (By Cheryl Emily MacDonald)
		Emma Speaks Out: Life and Writings of Emma Molloy...
		Emma: The dramatic biography of Emma Smith (By Keith C Terry)
	www.bookfinder4u.com /detail/0919670741.html (306 words)

	Historic Opera - Misc Early Opera Images
		Marie Louise Cecilie Emma Lajeunesse] Canadian soprano (1 Nov 1847 - 2 Apr 1930): Debut Messina (1870) as Amina (Sonnambula).
		She was selected, along with her husband, Roberto Stagno as Turiddu, to create the role of Santuzza in the premiere of Cavalleria Rusticana (17 May 1890).
		She was very popular in South America, but a disappointment at Covent Garden (1895), where she had to vie with sopranos such as Emma Albani, Emma Eames, Adelina Patti, Nellie Melba, and Marcella Sembrich for an audience's attention.
	www.historicopera.com /thumb_misc_early_left.htm (1055 words)

	Constructions of Identity in the Life Stories of Emma Albani and Glenn Gould \| Journal of Canadian Studies \| Find ...
		Constructions of Identity in the Life Stories of Emma Albani and Glenn Gould
		Biographies and music are both governed by narrative structures and help to create a sense of individual and collective/national identity.
		Both musicians are Canadian national icons, but there are several problematic issues in their life stories: Albani's elitism, class consciousness, and ambiguous relationship to Canada, and Gould's eccentricity and uncertain sexual identity.
	findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3683/is_200504/ai_n14776297 (1078 words)

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