Emma Eames (August 13, 1865 â€" June 13, 1952) was an American soprano
renowned for the beauty of her voice. She sang major lyric and
lyric-dramatic roles in opera and had an important career in New York,
London and Paris during the last decade of the 19th century and the
first decade of the 20th century.The daughter of an international
lawyer, Eames was born in Shanghai, China and raised in Portland and
Bath in the American state of Maine. The promising quality of her
voice was recognised early by her mother and she received singing
lessons as a small girl. She attended school in Boston where she
studied singing under Clara Munger, and later with Charles R.
Adams.Later she took voice lessons in Paris with the highly successful
but autocratic teacher of bel canto sopranos, Mathilde Marchesi. It
was noted in the press at the time of Marchesi's death in 1913 that
Eames had praised the tuition she received from that teacher.
Subsequently, however, she chose to downplay Marchesi's influence on
her vocal technique.
renowned for the beauty of her voice. She sang major lyric and
lyric-dramatic roles in opera and had an important career in New York,
London and Paris during the last decade of the 19th century and the
first decade of the 20th century.The daughter of an international
lawyer, Eames was born in Shanghai, China and raised in Portland and
Bath in the American state of Maine. The promising quality of her
voice was recognised early by her mother and she received singing
lessons as a small girl. She attended school in Boston where she
studied singing under Clara Munger, and later with Charles R.
Adams.Later she took voice lessons in Paris with the highly successful
but autocratic teacher of bel canto sopranos, Mathilde Marchesi. It
was noted in the press at the time of Marchesi's death in 1913 that
Eames had praised the tuition she received from that teacher.
Subsequently, however, she chose to downplay Marchesi's influence on
her vocal technique.
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