She was born Marie-Louise-Emma-Cécile Lajeunesse. She was a
pupil of Gilbert Louis Duprez in Paris and Francesco Lamperti in Milan. She
made her debut in 1870 at the Opera House of Messina as Amina in ‘’La
Sonnambula’’. She created for the Covent Garden in London a huge number of
parts: Philine in ‘’Mignon’' (1874), Elsa
in ‘’Lohengrin’’ (1875), Elisabeth in ‘’Tannhäuser’’ (1876), Senta in ‘’Fliegenden
Holländer’’, Tamara in ‘’Demon’’,
Desdemona in ‘’Otello’’ (1891), Brunehild in ‘’Sigurd’’ (1884). She was one of
the favorite singers of the English
queen Victoria. In the 1894-1895 season she undertook very successful concert and
performance tour through Germany and Switzerland. After her retirement (1896),
she taught singing in London.
Memoirs of Emma
Albani: Forty Years of song (London, in 1911).
Macdonald: Emma
Albani. Victorian diva (Toronto, in 1985).
Chronology of some appearances
1870 Messina Opera
House La Sonnambula (Amina)
1872-1896 London
Covent Garden La Sonnmabula (Amina)
1872 Paris Italian
Opera
1873 Paris Italian
Opera
1874 St. Petersburg Court
Opera
1874 Moscow Court Opera
1874 New York Academy
of Music La Sonnmabula (Amina)
1877 Berlin Opera
Lohengrin (Elsa)
1877 Berlin Opera Fliegenden
Holländer (Senta)
1878 Paris Italian
Opera
1880 Brussels Théâtre
de la Monnaie
1880 Milan La Scala
Lucia di Lammermoor (Lucia)
1880 Milan La Scala
Rigoletto (Gilda)
1881 Berlin Court Opera
1882 Monte Carlo
Opera Hamlet (Ofelia)
1882 Monte Carlo
Opera Rigoletto (Gilda)
1883 USA Concert Tour
1886 Berlin Court Opera
1888 Copenhagen
Concert Tour
1888 Berlin Court Opera
1891 New York Metropolitan
Opera Rigoletto (Gilda)
1892 New York Metropolitan
Opera
1894-1895 Germany and
Switzerland
1898 Canada Concert Tour
1898 Australia
Concert Tour
1898 New Zealand Concert
Tour
1898 South Africa Concert
Tour
1899 South Africa Concert
Tour
1904 South Africa Concert
Tour
1907 India and Ceylon
Concert Tour
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