Marcella Sembrich [SEP] voice type
Marcella Sembrich
Marcella Sembrich (February 15, 1858 – January 11, 1935) was the stage name of the Polish coloratura soprano, Prakseda Marcelina Kochańska. She had an important international singing career, chiefly at the New York Metropolitan Opera and the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London.
Biography.
Sembrich was born at Wisniewczyk, in Austrian Galicia, now part of Ukraine. She first studied violin and piano with her father. Later, she entered the Lemberg Conservatory and studied piano with her future husband Wilhelm
its type in the United States.
A group of singing teachers incorporated it in the state of New York on 27 November 1906 as the National Association of Teachers of Singing.
The first annual meeting of the new organization was held on 7 January 1908, at Steinway Hall in New York City.
The English music critic and voice teacher Herman Klein (1856–1934) was the first chairman.
Founding members included Enrico Caruso, Emma Eames, Geraldine Farrar, Mary Garden, Ernestine Schumann-Heink and Marcella Sembrich.