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Rosa D'Erina

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In 1873, Scottish poet Alexander Hamilton Wingfield wrote "Tribute to Rose D'Erina" and "Impromptu Apostrophe to Rose D'Erina", short poems which begin, respectively, "Welcome, Erin's Prima Donna, Greet her with a happy throng" and "Hail to thee, matchless Queen of Song."
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D'Erina emigrated to North America in 1870. She was popular in Ottawa, giving several performances in that city between 1872 and 1876. She toured in Europe in 1874. In 1880, she encountered legal problems with a fraudulent booker in Iowa.
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In 1884, D'Erina married a New York City professor from a prominent French family, G.R. Vontom (1852–1928), Vicomte de Ste Croix, at the
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In 1889, she and her husband sang in Ireland, and toured Australia. D'Erina toured in the United States, including to the remote
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in New York City, where she was employed as the organist. George Vontom had been born on isle of
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The Organ in Manitoba: A History of the Instruments, the Builders, and the Players
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Rosa D'Erina, from a cabinet card made in Canada, about 1875.
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Musical Canada: Words and Music Honouring Helmut Kallmann
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Beckwith, John; Hall, Frederick A. (15 December 1988).
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prima donna
soprano
Armagh
W. S. Gilbert
No Cards
Royal Gallery of Illustration
Thomas and Priscilla German Reed
Ray, North Dakota, Opera House
Church of the Holy Innocents
Jersey
St. Joseph Island


"Music hall! [microform] : Rosa d'Erina, Erin's prima donna, vocalist by command to the Prince and Princess of Wales and the Irish court ... will appear in her celebrated unique, original and classical musical evenings illustrating the music of many lands"
National Library of Australia
"Irish Soprano Rosa D'Erina"
"Concerts Various"
Review of No Cards
The Times
"Gallery of Illustration"
No Cards
W.S. Gilbert: A Classic Victorian and His Theatre
ISBN
978-0-19-816174-5
"Letter to Mr. Topley"
Ottawa Citizen
William James Topley
Musical Canada: Words and Music Honouring Helmut Kallmann
ISBN

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