1. Anne Roselle debuted in Budapest as Iluska in Pongrac Kacso's "Janos Vitez".
16 Facts About Anne Roselle
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Anne Roselle acted in Budapest and studied acting with Szidi Rakosi as a young woman.
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Anne Roselle studied singing with Estelle Liebling in New York City.
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Anne Roselle sang in New York, with the Metropolitan Opera in 1920, as Musetta in La boheme.
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Anne Roselle debuted on December 4,1920, on the side of Frances Alda, Beniamino Gigli, Antonio Scotti and Adamo Didur.
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Anne Roselle joined the Dresden Opera in 1925 to sing the title role in the first German performance of Puccinis's Turandot on the side of Richard Tauber and conducted by Fritz Busch.
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Anne Roselle premiered the first Turandot in the US outside the MET in San Francisco and next year, the first performance in Verona with Georges Thill.
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Anne Roselle sang in Budapest, Milan, Vienna, London, Paris and Berlin, and was part of a radio broadcast of Verdi's Un ballo in maschera, with Maria Olszewska.
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Anne Roselle was known for singing the title role in Verdi's Aida and Leonora in Il trovatore, among others.
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Anne Roselle's roles covered a rarely seen repertoire from Mozart's Constanze to Turandot, and Nedda and Santuzza, Butterfly, Margit, Tosca, Leonore, Elisabeth, Saffi, Mimi, Desdemona and Donna Anna.
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Anne Roselle gave a recital in 1948 at New York's Town Hall performance space.
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Anne Roselle recorded opera arias and songs by Schubert and Hungarian composers to 26 LP discs.
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Anne Roselle was artist-in-residence at Florida Southern College in her later years, until she retired from teaching in 1967.
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Anne Roselle made her first recordings under her birthname Anna Gyenge for Victor, then followed records for Polydor.
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In 1912, Anne Roselle married a Hungarian banker, Arpad Rosner; they had a son, George.
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Anne Roselle was widowed when Rosner died in 1956; she lived in a nursing home in Lakeland, Florida in her later years.