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 The grave of Hilda Roosevelt at the Cimetière de Montmartre, Paris. Picture by Androom (31 Oct 2022) |
 The grave of Hilda Roosevelt at the Cimetière de Montmartre, Paris. Picture by Androom (31 Oct 2022) |
Roosevelt, Hilda |
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BORN 31 Oct 1881, Paris: 23 rue de la Pépinière, 8e - DIED 12 Feb 1965, Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine BIRTH NAME Roosevelt, Paulina Anna Hilda GRAVE LOCATION Paris: Cimetière de Montmartre, 20 Avenue Rachel (division 23, avenue des Carrières, ligne 09, numéro 9) |
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The soprano Hilda Roosevelt was the daughter of Cornelius Roosevelt (1847-1902) from New York. Her father was a cousin of president Theodore Roosevelt. Her mother was a cabaret dancer from Peru named Anais Piorque who married her father in Paris on 3 October 1878. Hildda married the novelist and poet Paul Arosa (1874-1957) in Paris in 1899. In 1900 their son Maurice was born. In 1918 she sang at the Salle Gaveau at a charity. In 1919 she first appeared at the Opéra Comique for the first time in "Manon". In 1920 she was in Ernest Moret's "Lorenzaccio". On 26 August 1922 she debuted at the Opéra of Paris in the title role of "Thaïs". In 1924 she performed in London in Isidore de Lara's "The Tree Musketeers". Events |
| 19/5/1920 | Premiere of Ernest Moret's "Lorenzaccio" at the Opéra Comique in Paris. Performers included Madeleine Sibille, Hilda Roosevelt, Mathilde Calvet, Vanni Marcoux and the tenor Lapelletri. |
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The grave of Hilda Roosevelt at the Cimetière de Montmartre, Paris. Picture by Androom (31 Oct 2022) |
The grave of Hilda Roosevelt at the Cimetière de Montmartre, Paris. Picture by Androom (31 Oct 2022) |
