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Jenny Dufau

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wrote songs for her, which she performed at these concerts. Dufau wrote songs for her concerts, including "A Soldier I Shall Be", a patriotic wartime anthem.
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Dufau was visiting her family in Alsace in 1914, when she narrowly escaped execution as a spy. She died on 29 August 1924 in
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In Chicago, Dufau was a lead soprano, nicknamed the "smallest soprano". She performed in operas such as
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Dufau also participated in a burgeoning art form called "Cinema Concerts", in which she sang with
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Dufau began her career in 1910 in Italy at the Teatro Vittorio Emanuele in
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A program from 1905, for a concert in Rothau featuring Jenny Dufau and
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Emigrants from the German Empire to the United States
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German Empire
Germany
Chicago
Rothau
Alsace-Lorraine
potter
Etelka Gerster
Les Huguenots
Mathilde Marchesi
Paul Vidal

Albert Schweitzer
Ancona
Mignon
Bucharest
Atene
Andreas Dippel
Chicago Grand Opera Company
Die Walküre
The Barber of Seville
I gioielli della Madonna
Manon
Boston Opera Company
Ravinia Festival
Symphony Hall, Boston
Frank La Forge
silent films
World War I
Barbiere di Siviglia

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