Tréville, Yvonne de (real name, Edyth La Gierse)
Tréville, Yvonne de (real name, Edyth La Gierse)
Tréville, Yvonne de (real name, Edyth La Gierse), American soprano; b. Galveston, Tex. (of a French father and an American mother), Aug. 25, 1881; d. N.Y., Jan. 25, 1954. She made her debut in N.Y. as Marguerite (1898), then went to Paris, where she studied with Madame Marchesi. She appeared at the Opéra-Comique as Lakmé (June 20, 1902); sang in Madrid, Brussels, Vienna, Budapest, Cairo, and in Russia; from 1913, gave concert tours in the U.S. and sang in light operas. Her voice had a compass of 3 full octaves, reaching high G.
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