Adelaide Phillips by Sarony

ADELAIDE PHILLIPS
(26 October 1833-3 October 1882)
English Contralto

Came to the United States with her family at the age of seven . When Jenny Lind appeared in Boston in 1850, Adelaide sang for her, and was advised to go to Europe. Pupil of Manuel García.Continued her studies in Italy, and made her début 1853 at Brescia, as Arsace in Semiramide. She sang also in Milan and other cities. Her stage name in Europe was Signorina Fillippi.In 1855 she returned to the US and appeared in Italian opera in Philadelphia and New York City. and travelled to Havana Cuba .
In 1860 she made her first appearance in oratorio with the Handel and Haydn Society, Boston, in the Messiah. The following year she went abroad again, and appeared in Paris as Azucena in " Il Trovatore." After a professional tour in Europe she returned to the US. In 1864 she went again to Havana, and from that time until her death she appeared in opera, oratorio, and concerts the USn. She organised her own opera company "The Adelaide Phillipps Opera Company " in 1876, and in 1879 she joined the" Ideal Opera Company", remaining until 1881, when she made her last appearance on the stage in Cincinnati, Ohio.