GB 1249 MS 6867 - MACINTYRE, Margaret (1865-1943)

1 file 30 letters

GB 1249 MS 6867 1889-1902 Collection (fonds) 1 file 30 letters Macintyre , Margaret , 1865-1943 , soprano
Born India, 1865. She studied in London with the younger Manuel Garcia and made her debut in 1888 as Micaela at Covent Garden, where she sang regularly until 1897. Her roles included Donna Elvira, Ines (L'Africaine), Mathilde (Guillaume Tell), Aida, Marguerite (Faust), Marguerite de Valois (Les Huguenots), Elsa, Senta, Elisabeth (Tannhauser), Desdemona, Leonora (Il trovatore) and Santuzza. She created Rebecca in Sullivan's Ivanhoe at the Royal English Opera House (1891). She appeared at the Leeds Festival in 1889, 1892 and 1895 and the Birmingham Festival in 1891, and took her role as Elisabeth in Tannhauser to Moscow and Petersburg. She sang Sieglinde at La Scala in the first Milan performance of Die Walkure (1892), and made her only Metropolitan appearance as Margherita (Mefistofele) in 1901. She died in London, Apr 1943.

Presented by Miss L M Wade, niece of Margaret Macintyre, to the RCM, March 1959.

Correspondence and papers of Margaret Macintyre, 1889-1902, comprising 30 letters from various admirers and acquaintances including Fitzroy Gardner, H Rider Haggard, Sims Reeves, Giulio Ricordi, Arthur Shadwell, Sir Arthur Sullivan, Ellen Terry, (Francesco) Paolo Tosti, Charles H Wade, Cosima Wagner, Siegfried Wagner; correspondence with Adolf von Gross, Bayreuth Festival, regarding her appearance as Sieglinde, 1895; contracts for appearances at Covent Garden, 1889, 1892, 1897; passes for Royal Opera Company performance at Windsor Castle, 24 May 1895; undated cutting from Il Trovatore on Macintyre's performance as Elisabeth in Tannhauser.

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English, some French, German, Italian.

The collection is catalogued in the 'Provisional catalogue of letters in the RCM library' by J Kersey, 1997, vol 1; an entry is also given in the supplement to volume 3 of the Manuscripts catalogue in the library of the Royal College of Music.

Compiled by Robert Baxter as part of the RSLP AIM25 Project. Source: article by Elizabeth Forbes, Grove Dictionary of Music. Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997. Nov 2001 Bavaria Bayreuth Europe Gardener , Fitzroy , 1856-1936 , Major , author, journalist and traveller Germany Gross , Adolf , von , fl late 19th century , German banker and organiser of the Bayreuth Festival x von Gross , Adolf Haggard , Sir , Henry , Rider , 1856-1925 , Knight , novelist x Rider Haggard , Sir Henry Macintyre , Margaret , 1865-1943 , soprano Music Musical performances Opera Reeves , Sims , ? 1818-1900 , tenor Ricordi , Giulio , 1840-1912 , Italian music publisher Shadwell , Arthur , 1854-1936 , author and lecturer Sullivan , Sir , Arthur Seymour , 1842-1900 , Knight , composer Terry , Dame , Alice Ellen , 1847-1928 , actress Theatre Tosti , Sir , Francesco Paolo , 1846-1916 , Knight , Italian song composer and singing teacher Wade , Charles H , fl 1920s , illustrator Wagner , Cosima , 1838-1930 , wife of Richard Wagner x Von Bülow , Cosima x Bülow , Cosima , Von Wagner , Siegfried Helferich Richard , 1869-1930 , composer, conductor and director Western Europe Performing arts

Presented by Miss L M Wade, niece of Margaret Macintyre, to the RCM, March 1959.

Correspondence and papers of Margaret Macintyre, 1889-1902, comprising 30 letters from various admirers and acquaintances including Fitzroy Gardner, H Rider Haggard, Sims Reeves, Giulio Ricordi, Arthur Shadwell, Sir Arthur Sullivan, Ellen Terry, (Francesco) Paolo Tosti, Charles H Wade, Cosima Wagner, Siegfried Wagner; correspondence with Adolf von Gross, Bayreuth Festival, regarding her appearance as Sieglinde, 1895; contracts for appearances at Covent Garden, 1889, 1892, 1897; passes for Royal Opera Company performance at Windsor Castle, 24 May 1895; undated cutting from Il Trovatore on Macintyre's performance as Elisabeth in Tannhauser.

Usual conditions of the Library of the Royal College of Music apply. See the RCM website or contact the RCM Library for details.

Photocopying is permitted at the discretion of the Archivist for research purposes only.

• English

• Latin

English, some French, German, Italian.

The collection is catalogued in the 'Provisional catalogue of letters in the RCM library' by J Kersey, 1997, vol 1; an entry is also given in the supplement to volume 3 of the Manuscripts catalogue in the library of the Royal College of Music.

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

• English