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EMMA CALVE (1864– )

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 70 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CALVE (1864– )  , See also:Spanish operatic See also:soprano, was See also:born at See also:Madrid, and trained in See also:Paris, making her first important See also:appearance in See also:opera at See also:Brussels in 1882 . She sang mainly in Paris for some years, but in 1892 was first engaged at Covent See also:Garden, See also:London, and at once became famous as the most vivid Carmen (in Bizet's opera) of the See also:day .

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