Valleria, Alwina

VALLERIA, Alwina. Miss Alwina Valleria Lohmann was born Oct. 12, 1848, at Baltimore, U.S.A, studied at the Royal Academy of Music, London, the piano, with Mr. W. H. Holmes, and singing, as second study, with Mr. Wallworth, and in 1869 gained the Westmoreland Scholarship; received further instruction in singing from Arditi, and on June 2, 1871, made her first appearance in public, after which she was promptly engaged for Italian opera at St. Petersburg, where she made her first...