Mathilde Sessi by Reutlinger

MATHILDE GABRIELE SESSI (1846-1934 ) Austrian Soprano

Started her career in Vienna and then performances in Berlin , Frankfurt and Brussells . Debut at Covent Garden London 1870 as Lucia 'Lucia di Lammermoor" Donizetti .Performed in Paris the same year at la salle Ventadour as Alina "'Alina regina di golconda " She sang Zerlina "Don Giovanni" , Marguerite "Faust" , Marie " La fille du regiment" , Ophelie 'Hamlet" , Violetta 'La traviata"