Róza Csillag

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Csillag Róza (Rózsa Csillag), also German: Rosa Csillag, Rose(Rosa) Her(r)mann(-)Csillag, Rosa Her(r)mann (Hungarian: Csillag Róza, exactly Rosa Goldstein, Hungarian: Goldstein Róza; born October 23, 1832, Irsa (Alberti, now Albertirsa), Pest-Pilis-Solt-Kiskun vármegye, Hungary - 20 February 1892, Vienna, Austria), a Hungarian female Jewish opera singer.

She was born in the Jewish community of Irsa, and her father was Moritz Goldstein, a chazzan of Irsa. She attracted much attention in the chorus of the Hungarian National Theater at Budapest.

Trained by Professor Proch, she made her first appearance in 1858 as Fides in Meyerbeer's "Le Prophète", in the court opera-house of Vienna, where she delighted her audiences with her beautiful mezzo-soprano voice.

Until 1873 Csillag belonged to the cast of the Vienna Royal Opera-House, and was a general favorite. On her tours also she met with much success.

She married with the celebrated prestidigitator Carl "Compars" Hermann (also Hermann; born January 23, 1816, north Germany - June 8, 1887) at 1852, and made the singer and actress Blanche Correlli.

When her voice began to fail she became singing teacher at the Vienna Conservatoire.

[edit] References

• This article incorporates text from the 1901–1906 Jewish Encyclopedia, a publication now in the public domain., by Isidore Singer, Max Weisz ([1])

about Carl "Compars" Hermann

• http://conjuringarts.org/houdini/Houdini%20footnotes%20Chapter%201%20v.%201.1.pdf
• http://www.prices4antiques.com/itemsummary/279946.htm
• http://www.magicnook.com/forum/bioHIJ.htm
• http://www.magictricks.com/bios/whoswho-h.htm (about genealogy)

[edit] Bibliography of Jewish Encyclopdia

• Pallas Lexikon, iv.

[edit] External links

• http://www.der-neue-merker.eu/mod,content/id_content,53/id_menuitem,21/id_submenuitem,65/id_referer,21/getlevel,1
• http://ezines.onb.ac.at:8080/moravec/pub/schr/1406.htm
• http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/miscpics/0/1/7/doc/mp017313.shtml (picture)

See also: Csillag, Rózsa, Goldstein, Alexander Herrmann, and Herrmann