Chronology

Chronological table

• 1858 Birth of Rosa-Noemie Emma Calvet de Roquer in Decazeville. Father: Justin Calvet, Mother: Adèle-Léonie Astorg
  
• 1864 She attends a convent in Rodez. The sisters give some concerts where Mgr Bourret, bishop of this town appreciates her voice.
• 1874 Emma and her mother Léonie go up to Paris. Although they are short of money, Puget consents to give Emma lessons. (Father dies when she is 16?)
  
• 1882 Debut at the Brussels La Monnaie, as Marguerite in Charles Gounod's Faust. Lessons by Mrs Marchesi, one of the most influential voice teachers of the era.
• 1882 fin, Théodore Dubois' Aben Hamet in the Théâtre-Italien. 1883 She creates Victorin Joncières' Le Chevalier Jean in the Opéra-Comique. She sings in Zampa and Lalla-Roukh. After a failure at the Scala, recommended by Gounod, she took lessons from Rosine Laborde. In Rome she took lessons from Domenico Mustafà (1829 -1912).
• 1885 nov., in Nice she sings the part of Leïla in Bizet's Les Pêcheurs de perles with a grand success. She sings Halévy's L'éclair.
• 1888 May. Milan. Triumph in the Scala with Hamlet.
• 1889 - ill with a mysterious illness?
  
• 1890 She creates Cavalleria rusticana in Florence. She sings in Rome, then in Naples.
• 1891 November: she sang the French premiere of Cavalleria rusticana at the Opéra-Comique in Paris.
• 1892 Travel in Spain; November: great success in Carmen at the Opéra-Comique.
• 1893 Carmen in London's Covent Garden, and in Windsor by Queen Victoria. September: she leaves for the United States. Carmen in the Metropolitan Opera in New York, then in Boston, Chicago and Montreal.
• 1894 death of daughter(?) and several suicide attempts by drowning in Chicago. She meets Swami Vivekananda.
• 1893 Meets Béranger Saunière
  
• 1894 July: she buys the medieval castle of Cabrières in the Causses (for her father?)
• 1895 October: she creates Massenet's La Navarraise in Paris; Tour in Russia: Sankt-Petersburg, performance in front of the tsar.
• 1896 November: creation of Massenet's Sapho, with a libretto from a novel of Alphonse Daudet.
• 1899-1900 Travel in Orient
• 1902 She creates in the Opéra-Comique Reynaldo Hahn's La Carmélite.
• 1903 April: Hector Berlioz's La Damnation de Faust.
• 1903 Engaged to Jules Bois, French Writer
  
• 1904 October: in the Gaîté, Massenet's Hérodiade.
• 1906 Germany and Austria
• 1906 Engaged to Eugene Higgins, American Writer
• (1907 Married to Galileo Gaspari, Italian Tenor)
  
• 1910-1912 Travel around the world
• 1911 Marries Tenor Galileo Gaspari
  
• 1914 July: Berlin December: 4th tour in the United States
• 1915 USA
• 1916 Benefit concerts in Montpellier, Marseille, Toulon, Nice and Cannes, for the Croix-rouge.
• 1919 For the last time in the Opéra-Comique.
• 1920 She records for Pathé.
• 1921 Separated from husband, Galileo Gaspari
  
• 1922 Tour in England, Scotland and Ireland, with Alfred Cortot and Jacques Thibaud.
• 1925 5th tour in the USA.
• 1925 She retired from the stage. She returned in her beloved Midi to teach. She lived in different houses in Millau and surroundings.
• 1929 Death of nephew Elie Calvet
  
• 1942 January, 6: Death in a clinic in Montpellier.

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