# Minnie Egener

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{{short description|American opera singer}}

[[File:Minnie Egener at the Metropolitan Opera in 1915.jpg|thumb|Minnie Egener at the [Metropolitan Opera](/source/Metropolitan_Opera_House_(39th_Street)) in 1915]]
'''Minnie Egener''' (1881–1938) was an American operatic [mezzo-soprano](/source/mezzo-soprano).

==Biography==
She made her professional [opera](/source/opera) debut in 1904 at the [Metropolitan Opera](/source/Metropolitan_Opera) as one of the flower maidens in [Richard Wagner](/source/Richard_Wagner)'s ''[Parsifal](/source/Parsifal)''. In 1906 she moved to Italy and spent the next several years performing in operas with various theaters throughout that nation. In 1910 she performed the role of Alissa in [Donizetti](/source/Gaetano_Donizetti)'s ''[Lucia di Lammermoor](/source/Lucia_di_Lammermoor)'' with [Luisa Tetrazzini](/source/Luisa_Tetrazzini) at the [Teatro Regio di Parma](/source/Teatro_Regio_di_Parma); she also appeared in small roles at [Covent Garden](/source/Royal_Opera_House) and at the [Manhattan Center](/source/Manhattan_Center).<ref name=Riemens>{{cite book
|title= A concise biographical dictionary of singers; from the beginning of recorded sound to the present
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|url-access= registration
|last= Riemens
|first= Leo
|author-link = Leo Riemens
|year= 1969
|publisher= [Chilton Book Co](/source/Chilton_Book_Co)}}</ref> Over the next four years she performed in several operas with the [Philadelphia Grand Opera Company](/source/Philadelphia_Grand_Opera_Company) and the [Chicago Grand Opera Company](/source/Chicago_Grand_Opera_Company). In 1914 she returned to the Metropolitan Opera, where she performed mostly [comprimario](/source/comprimario) roles for the next eighteen years. Most notably, Egener performed in the original productions of [Frederick Delius](/source/Frederick_Delius)'s ''[A Village Romeo and Juliet](/source/A_Village_Romeo_and_Juliet)'' in 1907,<ref>{{Almanacco|dmy=21 February 1907|match=A Village Romeo and Juliet}}</ref> [Reginald De Koven](/source/Reginald_De_Koven)'s ''[The Canterbury Pilgrims](/source/The_Canterbury_Pilgrims_(De_Koven))'' in 1917, [Puccini](/source/Giacomo_Puccini)'s ''[Suor Angelica](/source/Suor_Angelica)'' in 1918, [Albert Wolff](/source/Albert_Wolff_(conductor))'s opera ''[L'oiseau bleu](/source/L'oiseau_bleu_(opera))'' in 1919, [Deems Taylor](/source/Deems_Taylor)'s ''[The King's Henchman](/source/The_King's_Henchman)'' in 1927, and Taylor's ''[Peter Ibbetson](/source/Peter_Ibbetson_(opera))'' in 1931. Her final performance was in December 1932 as Flora in [Verdi](/source/Giuseppe_Verdi)'s ''[La traviata](/source/La_traviata)'' which marked her 752nd performance at the Metropolitan Opera.<ref>[http://66.187.153.86/archives/frame.htm Metropolitan Opera Association<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070329065327/http://66.187.153.86/archives/frame.htm |date=2007-03-29 }}</ref> Thereafter she taught voice first in New York City and later in New Orleans. She was married to the conductor [Louis Hasselmans](/source/Louis_Hasselmans) (1878–1957). She died in New York in 1933.

==Recordings==
Egener made a few recordings for the [Victor Talking Machine Company](/source/Victor_Talking_Machine_Company) including the famous 1917 recording of the Sextet from ''[Lucia di Lammermoor](/source/Lucia_di_Lammermoor)'' with [Enrico Caruso](/source/Enrico_Caruso) and [Amelita Galli-Curci](/source/Amelita_Galli-Curci).

==References==
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==External links==
*{{commons category-inline|Minnie Egener}}

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Category:American operatic mezzo-sopranos
Category:20th-century American singers
Category:20th-century American women singers

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