PAREPA-ROSA

Euphrosyne (dau. of baron Georgia des de Boyesku, a Wall a chi an noble, d. about 1836, by Elizabeth Seguin, singer, d. 14 Jany. 1870, aged 57). b. Edinburgh 7 May 1836; pupil of her mother; made her début as Euphrosyne Parepa at Malta 1855 as Amina in La Sonnambula; sang at Naples, Rome, Florence, Genoa, Madrid, and Lisbon 1855–6; first appeared in England at the Lyceum 21 May 1857 as Elvira in I Puritan i; played Camille in Zampa at Covent Garden Aug. 1858, and sang there several years; the original Victorine in Mellon’s Victorine 1859; La reine Topaze in Ma é’s opera of that name 1860, and Mabel in Mac farren’s Helvellyn 1864; sang at Philharmonic concerts 1860 and at the Handel festivals 1862 and 1865; sang in the U.S. of America 1865, where she was prima donna of the Parepa-Rosa English opera company 1869–70; sang at the Peace jubilee in Boston June 1869; sang at Covent Garden theatre 1872; resided at Cairo winter of 1872–3, played Ruy Blas at the grand opera, Cairo 11 Feb. 1873; had a soprano voice of two and a half octaves in range, reaching to D in alt.; m. (1) Dec. 1863 captain Henry de Wolfe Carvell, of 17 Gloster crescent, Hyde park, London, he d. Lima, Peru 26 April 1865; m. (2) in New York 26 Feb. 1867 Carl August Nicolas Rosa, b. 22 March 1842, he endowed a Parepa-Rosa scholarship at R.A. of music 1874 and d. 30 April 1889; she d. 10 Warwick crescent, Maida Vale, London 21 Jany. 1874. bur. High gate cemet. 26 Jany. The Western monthly iii 213–21 (1870); Musical World (1873) 113, 265, 607 (1874) 50, 54, 70, . ; Graphic ix 124, 131 (1874) portrait ; I.L.N. lxiv 129 (1874) portrait ; Orchestra 23 Jany. 1874 p. 266, 30 Jany. pp. 281–2.