Matilde Sessi By Dupont

MATILDE SESSI
(Mathilde Gabriele Alexander)
(1846-1934)
Austrian soprano.
She started her career in Vienna and then got engagements in Berlin, Frankfurt and Brussels.In 1870 she had her debut in London at Covent Garden as Lucia in “Lucia di Lammermoor” and in that same year in Paris, at La Salle Ventadour, as Alina in Donizetti’s “Alina, Regina di Golconda”. She sang several seasons at Covent Garden and her most famous rôles were Zerlina in “Don Giovanni”, Marguerite in “Faust”, Marie in “La fille du regiment”, Ophélie in “Hamlet”, Violetta in “La Traviata”, the Countess in “Le nozze di Figaro”, the Queen of the Nigt in “Die Zauberflöte”, Marzelline in “Fidelio” and Cecilia in “Il Guarany”.