Clara Louise Kellogg by Mora

Clara Louise Kellogg as Aida in 'Aida" Verdi

CLARA LOUISE KELLOGG
(July 9, 1842 – May 13, 1916) was an American soprano She completed her studies in New York and was there in 1861 at the Academy of Music with her debut as Gilda in "Rigoletto" already their first success. She sang at the same opera house on 11/26/1863 then the Marguerite in the New York premiere of Gounod's "Faust". In 1863 she appeared as a guest on Her Majesty's Theatre in London. She attracted here as Traviata, Linda di Chamounix as in the opera of the same name by Donizetti, as Zerlina in "Don Giovanni" and Martha as large in the famous opera by Flotow sensation. The composer Luigi Arditi wrote for them the "Kellogg-Waltz", a coloratura bravura aria she lectured in the finale of the opera "Linda di Chamounix" as a deposit. 1868-72 she undertook extensive tours in the United States. 1872 was then played again in London as a guest. 1872 she founded along with great Prima Donna Pauline Lucca Lucca the Kellogg Opera Company, but only temporarily had stock. 1873-76 she was Director of the English Opera Company, with which she took great guest tours through the North American continent. These troops deployed such activity, that they hosted 125 performances during a Stagione, in which Clara Louis Kellogg occurred again and again as a singer. 1877 she joined the opera troupe Tre Grazie, which the impresario Carl Rosa undertook a tour through the United States. 1879, she appeared again at the Her Majesty's Theatre in London, now admired above all as Aida and as Philina in the opera "Mignon" of A.Thomas. In 1880 she appeared in Vienna in 1881 at the Court Opera of St. Petersburg. In 1887 she took the stage farewell, when she married her manager Carl Strakosch