Gabrielle Ritter-Ciampi, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Place of Birth: Paris, Île-de-France, France
About Gabrielle Ritter-Ciampi
- Gabrielle Ritter-Ciampi (November 2, 1886 – July 18, 1974) was a French operatic soprano. Ritter was born in Paris.
- The niece of Théodore Ritter, she originally trained as a pianist, and at age 16 she started to receive singing lessons from her parents: her Italian father, tenor Enzo Ciampi-Cellai, and French mother, Cécile Ritter-Ciampi.
- She debuted in 1917 as Violetta in La Traviata, and two years later she was engaged at Opéra-Comique, where she became famous in Mozart operatic roles.
- Her activity was centered predominantly in France, but she took part also in the Salzburg Festival in 1932, again in Mozart roles. She was considered a fine, light lyric soprano with good technique and capable of reaching high notes easily; she was frequently compared with Adelina Patti, who had a similar voice. She did most of her recordings between 1923 and 1929, and recorded many selected arias from various works, but never complete operas.
- She also sang the title role in Esclarmonde at Opéra Garnier during a short-lived revival of that opera between 1931 and 1934.Her career practically ended with World War II, with her last engagement being a role in an operetta by Reynaldo Hahn, Le oui des jeunes filles, in 1949.
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