Margaret Von Vahsel by Tiedermann Autographed

Margarete von Vahsel ,
(Margarete Vahsel-Schmalfeld )
30 September 1866 - 1922
German soprano
Discovered at the age of 11 by Franz Abt , who advised her to continue her education. After resistance from her parents , she went to Hamburg to pursue her studies for three years. In 1882 at the age of fifteen she began to appear publicly in Magdeburg , By 1882 she was a Soubrette on the Magdeburger stage. After a year's work, She was engaged at the court theater in Dessau from 1883-1894.And from 1894-1895 she was at the Opera House Leipzig.In 1895-1901 she decided to do concert tours throughout the world, even to Australia, New Zealand, India and Canada, as well as America, where she had taken permanent residence in New York , she returned to Germany in 1901 and settled in Berlin as a singing teacher at the Klindworth-Scharwenka Conservatory. She was married to the German Tenor Rudolf Schmalfeld (1858-1922)
Her roles included Susanna in "The Marriage of Figaro" , Marie in "La Fille de regiment" . Camen in "Carmen" , Marguerite in "Faust" and Santuzza in "Cavalleria Rusticana