Anna de La Grange
{{short description|French opera singer}}
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| name = Anna de La Grange
| image = Louis-Auguste Moreaux - A atriz Lagrange como Norma.jpg
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| caption = Anna de La Grange as Norma
| othername = Anna de La Grange de Stankowitch
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| birth_date = 24 July 1825
| birth_place = Paris, France
| death_date = 23 April 1905
| death_place = Paris, France
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| nationality = French
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| occupation = Opera singer and composer
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| spouse = Count of Stankowitch
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Anna de La Grange de Stankowitch (1825–1905) was a French coloratura soprano. She was one of the most noted opera singers of the nineteenth century,The Athenæum a journal of literature, science, the fine arts, James Silk Buckingham, John Sterling, Frederick Denison Maurice 1905 "The death is announced of Madame Anna de la Grange, one of the most noted stage vocalists of the nineteenth ..." a protégée of Rossini and Meyerbeer, and played Violetta in the American premiere of Verdi's La Traviata in New York in 1856.Verdi 2001: atti del Convegno internazionale: Issue 2 Fabrizio Della Seta, Roberta Montemorra Marvin, Marco Marica - 2003 "The premiere was sung by Anna de La Grange (1826-1905), a protegee of Rossini and Meyerbeer, whose voice was compared to Sontag's. Four months later, in April 1857, another prima donna, Marietta Gazzaniga (1824-1884) sang Violetta; ..." She was also a composer in her own right.
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Category:French operatic sopranos
Category:19th-century French women opera singers
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