Background
Bianca Bianchi was born on January 27, 1855, in Heidelberg, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany. Her parents were actors.
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also known as
Bertha Schwarz
Bianca Bianchi was a high soprano opera-singer. Her real name was Bertha Schwarz. Her greatest successes were at Vienna.
Education
Bianca Bianchi was a pupil of Wilczek (Heidelberg) and Madame Viardot-Garcia (Paris).
Career
Bianca Bianchi was a coloratura soprano opera singer. Debut in Karlsruhe, 1873, as Barberina in Figaro. As an opera singer, she was for many years a prominent member of the company of the Vienna Court Opera, where her fame was such that an asteroid discovered on 4 September 1880 was named 218 Bianca in her honor. Two years later Johann Strauss II was inspired by her to compose his Frühlingsstimmen waltz for orchestra and solo soprano voice, still familiar today. Although based in Vienna, Bianca Bianchi sometimes performed in other cities of the German and Austrian empires, notably Hamburg, Karlsruhe, and Budapest.
Connections
In 1894 Bianca Bianchi married the impresario Bernard Pollini, who had been her manager.
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Nationality
German