Marie Aimee Queen of Comic Opera Bouffe Diva Original Cabinet Card Photo For Sale

Marie Aimee Queen of Comic Opera Bouffe Diva Original Cabinet Card Photo. Extremely rare antique original cabinet card photograph of the famed Diva Queen of Comic Opera Bouffe of the 19th century. This photograph was taken by an unknown photographer. The photograph has the name \"Aimee\" hand written on the back This authentic original item is in VG/Near Mint conditionThe cabinet card was a style of photograph which was widely used for photographic portraiture after 1870. It consisted of a thin photograph mounted on a card typically measuring 108 by 165 mm (4+1/4 by 6+1/2 inches).Marie Aimee bio courtesy of Broadway PhotographsBorn Aimee Tranchoa, Marie Aimee (1852-1887) was the great ambassadoress of Parisian wit to the Americas introducing audiences in the United States, Mexico, and Cuba to the Grand Duchess, Perichole, Helene, and Boufetie. She radiated sufficient mystique and enough charming ambiguity in her characterization, that audiences couldn\'t say definitely whether she was naughty or nice. She always seemed somehow both. She had a singular ability to convey the sense that she was enjoying herself in every song she sang. Her vitaility made even her more artificial characters seem living breathing creatures.Her series of successful productions began with 1870\'s \"Barbe Bleu\" in which she played Boulette at the Grand Opera House. Hit piled upon hit--\"La Grande Duchesse,\" \"Genevieve de Brabant,\" \"La Perichole,\" \"La Petite Mariee,\" \"La Fille de Mme Angot\" (she created the role of Clairette), \"La Jolie perfumeuse,\" and \"La Boulangerie a des eeus.\" She made a number of songs wildly famous, including \"Pretty as a Picture.\"In 1883 her voice failed and she remade herself as a comic actress in English language work such as \"Divorcons\" and \"Mam\'zelle.\" She died in Paris as the result of an operation in 1887 and her funeral was not well attended, her fame having been greater in the Western hemisphere than in France
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