Adele Passy-Cornet (22 January 1838 – 2 November 1915) was a German opera singer ( soprano).

Life

Born in

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, Passy-Cornet was a daughter of the opera singer couple Julius and . After she received her first artistic lessons by her mother, Passy-Cornet went to Hamburg and took singing lessons there. Afterwards she sang in Austria and appeared among other things at concerts at the Viennese court. She later performed as a ''

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'' also in her homeland; among other places in Braunschweig, Hamburg and Hannover. At the age of 27 Passy-Cornet got an engagement at the

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in Vienna in 1865 and made her debut there with outstanding success as the "Queen of the Night". Although she achieved great successes in a short time and could choose her engagements, she soon devoted herself only to singing occasional concerts. She got married and her daughter was the singer Anna Prasch-Passy. Passy-Cornet founded a Private Singing School in Vienna and directed it until 1881, before being appointed singing teacher at the

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(Budapest). In 1892 she gave up this office and returned to Germany. She settled in Nuremberg and taught singing there.

Roles (selection)

* Queen of the night – ''

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'' * Isabelle – '' Robert le diable'' * Rosina – '' Il barbiere di Siviglia''

Some pupils

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Julie Kopacsy-Karczag Julie Kopacsy-Karczag, ''née'' Julie Kopacsy, also Julie Kopacsi or Julie Kopacsi-Karczag (b. 13 February 1867 in Komárom, Austria-Hungary ow Komárno, Slovakia– d. 26 January 1957 in Vienna) was a Hungarian opera singer (soprano). L ...

Bibliography

Passy-Cornet, Adele
* A. Ehrlich (editor): ''Berühmte Sängerinnen der Vergangenheit und Gegenwart. Eine Sammlung von 91 Biographien und 90 Porträts''. Leipzig 1895 * Ludwig Eisenberg: Adele Passy-Cornet. In ''Großes biographisches Lexikon der deutschen Bühne im XIX. Jahrhundert''.

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, Leipzig 1903, * ''Passy-Cornet, Adele''. In

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''. 3rd edition. 1997–2000, volume 4, . {{DEFAULTSORT:PassyCornet, Adele 1838 births 1915 deaths Musicians from Braunschweig German operatic sopranos 19th-century German women opera singers German music educators Women music educators Voice teachers