Nevada, Mignon (Mathilde Marie)
Nevada, Mignon (Mathilde Marie)
Nevada, Mignon (Mathilde Marie), American soprano, daughter of Emma Nevada; b. Paris (of American parents), Aug. 14, 1886; d. Long Melford, England, June 25, 1971. She studied with her mother. She made her operatic debut at Rome’s Teatro Costanzi as Rosina in Il Barbiere di Siviglia in 1907; then sang a season at the Teatro San Carlos in Lisbon; after a season at the Pergola Theater in Florence, she made her London debut at Covent Garden as Ophelia (Oct. 3, 1910), and sang there in subsequent seasons; also appeared at the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels, and at La Scala in Milan (1923). During World War II, she engaged in war work at Liverpool, England. From 1954 she lived in London.
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