Eame

s. (amz), Emma, b. (of American parents) at Shanghai, Aug. 13, 1865; noted soprano; at 5 went with her mother, her first teacher, to Bath, Maine; pupil of Mi Munger at Boston; 1886-88 at Paris, of Madame Marchesi (voice), and Pluque (acting, etc.); 1888, engaged at the Op.-Com., but made début with succ. at the Gr. Opéra, March 13, 1880, as “Juliette” in Gounod’s “Roméo et Juliette,” a rdle previously sacred to Patti; sang at the Opera for 2 years, creating ‘‘Colombe” in St.Saens’ ‘‘Ascanio” and as ‘‘Zdire”’ in De La Nux’s opera; 1891, Covent Garden in ‘‘Faust’’; m. the painter Julian Story the same year, and in Oct. appeared in New York at Met. Op.; from then until 1909, when she stage, regularly in N. Y. and London, except 1892-93, at Madrid, and 1895-96, during ill-health; ‘‘Sieglinde” was perhaps her best role. In 1911 she m. Emilio de Gogorza, barytone, and toured in concert with him. In later years she has lived in Paris.