Ema Pukšec (February 6, 1834 – January 14, 1889), also known as Ilma de Murska , as well as Ilma di Murska , was a 19th-century soprano opera singer from Croatia .
30-471: Foli is both a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include: Signor Foli (1837–1899), 19th century Irish bass opera singer Tim Foli (born 1950), American former professional baseball player Foli Adade (born 1991), Ghanaian professional footballer See also [ edit ] Foley (disambiguation) Foly [REDACTED] Name list This page or section lists people that share
60-867: A farewell performance, in which she played Ophelia in the very first performance of Ambroise Thomas ' Hamlet at the Vienna Court Opera . Her most noted roles included the Queen of the Night in Mozart 's The Magic Flute and Lucia di Lammermoor . She also sang the roles of Dinorah and Isabella in Robert le Diable . Ilma de Murska's London appearances were from 1865 until after 1873 and were generally in connection with James Henry Mapleson 's company. She made her London debut as Lucia di Lammermoor at Her Majesty's Theatre . Her appearance as Queen of
90-517: A friend and colleague of Anderson. This marriage lasted no longer than any of her others, as when de Murska returned to America in October 1876, Hill remained in Australia. De Murska was noted for her hypersensitivity, especially about her age, and for the large menagerie of animals which accompanied her everywhere. Most important of these was an immense black Newfoundland dog called Pluto, which
120-410: A frightening temper: the story is told of a disagreement with a head waiter in a well-known restaurant, in which Foli threw his dinner, plate and all, out of the window to make the point that the meal was unsatisfactory, shouting 'That's what's wrong with it, and now what are you going to do about it?' Amid the general laughter his anger soon evaporated. He is said to have been an inveterate gambler, and
150-621: A great success in Israel in Egypt and as Pietro in Auber 's opera Masaniello . In Mapleson's first American tour in the autumn of 1878 he was in company with Etelka Gerster , Minnie Hauk , Zélia Trebelli, Italo Campanini and many others, and appeared in a particularly notable I Puritani with Gerster and Campanini at Chicago. He returned several times to America, was also heard in Vienna, and in
180-469: A later opera career. She married a soldier by the name of Josip Eder in 1851, with whom they had two children (Alfons and Hermina). They moved first to Graz in 1857, then to Vienna in 1860, in order to enable Ema to study voice in the city's conservatory. She also studied for a time in Paris. Her professional career started in 1862 and lasted some 20 years. Ilma de Murska was a coloratura soprano with
210-475: A lawsuit. Following his example, the great Irish tenor John McCormack (who married Lily Foley) took the stage name 'Giovanni Foli' for his Italian operatic début at Savona in 1906. Ilma de Murska Ema Pukšec was born in Ogulin (present-day Republic of Croatia ). Her mother was Krescencia Brodarotti de Trauenfeld, while her father, Josip Pukšec, was a highly respected military officer stationed in
240-602: A period of time she lectured at the music conservatory in New York City. In June 1875 she left for her Australasian tour, at which she gave 145 concerts, ten operas and two oratorios, clearing for herself £16,000, according to one account, of which she sent £11,000 to her daughter in Austria. She married, almost certainly bigamously, the pianist Alfred Anderson in Sydney on 29 December 1875 during her Australian tour. She
270-772: A range of three octaves . Her career as Ilma de Murska started in 1862 in Florence , Italy as Lady Harriet in Friedrich von Flotow 's Martha . Some sources claim she debuted as Marguerite de Valois in Les Huguenots . Her tour of Europe followed by performing in Budapest , Spain and Italy. After a string of 42 successful performances she went to Vienna as a guest artist and sang on August 16, 1864 in Verdi 's Il Trovatore . Her period in Vienna closed on August 10, 1873 in
300-742: A success in Haydn's The Creation with the Sacred Harmonic Society. Santley and Foli sang The Lord is a man of war in the Handel Festival of 1868. He took the role of Jacob in the first production of Macfarren 's Joseph at the Leeds Festival, 21 September 1877, and Herod in that of L'Enfance du Christ of Berlioz under Charles Hallé in Manchester (30 December 1880) and London (26 February 1881). He sang in
330-490: A successful one, and to have visited Monte Carlo annually. Signor Foli died very suddenly in October 1899 at Southport, having gone to Liverpool to see off Miss Clara Butt , who was sailing for America on a tour. Having been a frequent and successful operator on the Stock Exchange, he left his wife Rosita and his brothers and his two sisters (who lived at Tacoma, Washington ) well provided for. The estate led to
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#1732783169171360-522: The Paris Opéra he was engaged by Mapleson for the season of 1865, and made his London debut as St Bris in Les Huguenots . In the absence of Antonio Giuglini the company toured in late 1865 with Mario as principal tenor in Manchester, Dublin, Belfast and Liverpool. In January–April 1866 Mapleson split the company into two parties for a very extensive British provincial tour, Foli joining
390-596: The 1890s he toured in Australia and New Zealand, and in Canada. In addition to stage performance, through the 1870s Foli appeared regularly with leading singers in the Grand Operatic Concerts at the Royal Albert Hall . In 1877, with Santley, Nilsson and Ciro Pinsuti , assisted by Arthur Chappell, he gave a benefit concert which raised £1500 towards an annuity for their colleague Mario, who
420-635: The Cradle of the Deep , the 'Drinking' song In cellar cool , Gatty's True till Death , and stand-alone operatic pieces such as Qui sdegno non-s'accende (Mozart, Die Zauberflöte ), She alone charmeth my sadness (Gounod, La reine de Saba ) and O ruddier than the cherry (Handel, Acis and Galatea ), all of which remained in the standard English concert repertoire well into the twentieth century, and were recorded by such singers as David Bispham , Peter Dawson , Robert Radford or Norman Allin . Foli's voice
450-998: The Night in 1865 was a great success. George Bernard Shaw observed that, in the famous fioriturae of this role, she sang "to chime with a delicate ring and inimitable precision of touch". In 1866 she sang Meyerbeer 's Dinorah . That autumn she played Ophelia in Ambroise Thomas 's Hamlet , with Charles Santley and Karl Formes , in London and on tour. In 1871 she was Isabella for Ernesto Nicolini 's English debut, in Robert le Diable . She also took part in Mapleson's tours in Dublin between 1872 and 1876. After leaving Vienna in 1873, de Murska performed in Hamburg , Berlin and Paris. In 1873-74, she toured United States. She also toured Russia, Australia and New Zealand, and for
480-405: The diva was staying, and were frequently destructive of the furnishings. De Murska accepted the consequent expenses happily. Music critics, aristocratic opera patrons and ordinary listeners alike called her "The Croatian Nightingale" following her acclaimed appearances in Vienna and London. As a singer she was wild and uninhibited, to the frustration of the conductor, as she was apt to depart from
510-647: The ensemble of Mario, Grisi and Lablache under Arditi . In that year of 1866 he was introduced at the Royal Philharmonic Society . Thereafter he appeared regularly as principal basso for Mapleson, with much success in various parts. In 1866 he appeared in a short run of Il Seraglio with Thérèse Tietjens , Hans von Rokitansky and Clarice Sinico: and in 1868 he was with Clara Louise Kellogg , Zélia Trebelli , Bettini and Charles Santley in La Gazza Ladra (Il Podestà). In 1869,
540-476: The fact was described and reported in the press. A description drawn from The Daily Telegraph shows that at a private recording session at the Crystal Palace on Good Friday 1878, "both duets and solos were successfully tried by Madame Lemmens-Sherrington , M. Lemmens , Signor Foli, M. Manns and other skilled musicians." In another report of Foli's recordings, "... the accomplished vocalist, to test
570-738: The first performance of Gounod 's La Rédemption in 1882. In Sydney, Australia in May 1892 Foli had a great success with Haydn's The Creation but, in July, a failure with Mendelssohn's Elijah , for which he was suffering from a sore throat. During the 1890s, in his late fifties, he was singing Messiah in England in company with Adelina Patti , Emma Albani and Edward Lloyd . He appeared in concert, oratorio and opera in various countries. He toured in Russia (Moscow and St Petersburg) in 1873, where he made
600-585: The many friends of Signor Foli there a treat. He meant to put the tinfoil on an exactly similar phonograph at New Jersey, and have the song repeated. Whether the experiment succeeded has not yet transpired." The recording is not known to have survived, nor, probably, is any recording of him known. In 1879 he appeared as witness at the Old Bailey , in a forgery case relating to authorship of a song, 'The Tar's Return', which had been written for Foli and sold to him for his public endorsement. He apparently possessed
630-478: The powers of the phonograph, sang a verse of 'Jack's Yarn' into it. In a few seconds the ruby point was properly adjusted over the sheet of tinfoil, and the selection repeated as sung by the Signor, though, of course, in not so loud a tone (the sound issues from the machine as from a distance). Thereupon Signor Foli's friend purchased the sheet of tinfoil, with the remark that when he returned to New Jersey he would give
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#1732783169171660-512: The region around the city of Slunj . For his service in protecting the eastern flanks of western Europe within the Austrian Military Frontier , her father was granted nobility and added the extension Murski to his name. The feminine variant ( de Murska ) was later used by Ema as her own surname. She began playing the piano at the age of five. After her family moved to Zagreb in 1850, she started to sing, hoping for
690-588: The same given name or the same family name . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change that link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Foli&oldid=738847472 " Categories : Given names Surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description is different from Wikidata All set index articles Signor Foli Allan James Foley (7 August 1837 – 10 October 1899), distinguished 19th century Irish bass opera singer,
720-623: The season in which the Gye and Mapleson resources were combined, Foli was in the opening production of Norma with Tietjens, Sinico and Mongini, and in the Rigoletto which followed it. He took the role of Daland in the first performance of The Flying Dutchman in England in 1870 with Santley as Vanderdecken and Ilma de Murska as Senta. Herman Klein mentions his Bertramo in the 1872 Drury Lane production of Robert le Diable with Christine Nilsson , Italo Gardoni , Mongini and de Murska. He
750-478: Was born at Cahir , County Tipperary . In accordance with the prevailing preference for Italian artists, he changed the spelling (but not the pronunciation) of his name and was always known as 'Signor Foli.' His family emigrated, and Foli spent much of his youth in Hartford, Connecticut . Originally a carpenter, he studied singing under Bisaccia at Naples and made his first appearance at Catania in 1862. From
780-504: Was famous for his Sparafucile ( Rigoletto ) and Commendatore ( Don Giovanni ), and had a repertoire of some 60 operas. Foli's career in concert and oratorio at the principal festivals developed alongside his operatic work, often with the same colleagues. In 1866 he appeared with Santley in a performance of Israel in Egypt given by the National Choral Society at the old St Martin's Hall. In February 1867 he scored
810-635: Was obliged to break her schedule a few weeks later in Melbourne , as her husband was gravely ill. As a result, her fans in that city were treated to additional performances, in Lucia di Lammermoor and La Sonnambula , alternating nights with Fannie Simonsen . Anderson, who had been suffering intermittently before the marriage, died on 22 March. Within two months, on 15 May 1876, while on tour in Dunedin, New Zealand , De Murska had married again, to John Hill ,
840-405: Was powerful but of beautiful quality, its compass from the bass E to F above middle C. With his vigorous, straightforward delivery, he was a great favourite in London for many years. George Bernard Shaw referred to the certainty and spontaneity of his roulades. Foli was one of the very earliest classical musicians to make a phonograph recording. He did this at The Crystal Palace in 1878, and
870-954: Was then living in Rome in straitened circumstances. He was among the contributors at the Retirement Concert of Sims Reeves at the Royal Albert Hall on 11 May 1891, and sang in two concerts in the first Promenade season (1895), including the final concert, the benefit for Robert Newman . In England he also appeared frequently at the Boosey Popular Concerts . Songs described in the tours of Australia and Canada give some idea of his recitals, such as Pinsuti's Bedouin Love Song , Formes 's In Sheltered Vale , Battison Haynes's Off to Philadelphia , Schubert's The Wanderer , Loder's The Diver , Knight's Rock'd in
900-405: Was trained to eat fowl off a plate, set for him as a place at the dining table with his mistress, without dripping anything on the tablecloth. He customarily travelled in a first-class carriage. His constant travelling-associates were two parrots, an Angora cat, and a monkey. The monkey and cat tormented each other and clawed each other's fur, and the parrots were given free range in the hotels where
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