Inez Fabbri (26 January 1831 â€" 30 August 1909), née Agnes Schmidt,
was an Austrian American soprano, voice teacher and impresaria. She
sang in Austria, Germany, England, South America and the Caribbean,
making her home in San Francisco where, in the 1870s, she was the most
important musical personality and prima donna assoluta of her time,
performing in more than 150 concerts and operas from 1872 to 1879,
producing operas, and teaching voice to up-and-coming singers.She was
the daughter of an impoverished Viennese textile manufacturer. She
made a successful operatic debut in Kassa, Hungary, (now Košice,
Slovakia) in Donizetti's Lucrezia Borgia in 1847. After a few years on
the road singing in Königsberg (1856â€"1857) and Potsdam (1857), she
arrived at the Hamburgischerer Stadttheater where, among other roles,
she received recognition for Valentine in Meyerbeer's Les Huguenots
which became one of her starring roles.Here she met Richard Mulder
(1822â€"1874), a Dutch musician and impresario whom she married in
1858. He organized a tour to South America (1858â€"59) during which
time she sang in Argentina, Brazil and Chile.[Note 1] From then on she
would use her stage name, "Fabbri" (Italian for "Schmidt/Smith").
was an Austrian American soprano, voice teacher and impresaria. She
sang in Austria, Germany, England, South America and the Caribbean,
making her home in San Francisco where, in the 1870s, she was the most
important musical personality and prima donna assoluta of her time,
performing in more than 150 concerts and operas from 1872 to 1879,
producing operas, and teaching voice to up-and-coming singers.She was
the daughter of an impoverished Viennese textile manufacturer. She
made a successful operatic debut in Kassa, Hungary, (now Košice,
Slovakia) in Donizetti's Lucrezia Borgia in 1847. After a few years on
the road singing in Königsberg (1856â€"1857) and Potsdam (1857), she
arrived at the Hamburgischerer Stadttheater where, among other roles,
she received recognition for Valentine in Meyerbeer's Les Huguenots
which became one of her starring roles.Here she met Richard Mulder
(1822â€"1874), a Dutch musician and impresario whom she married in
1858. He organized a tour to South America (1858â€"59) during which
time she sang in Argentina, Brazil and Chile.[Note 1] From then on she
would use her stage name, "Fabbri" (Italian for "Schmidt/Smith").
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