Nordica, Lillian
(1857–1914)> VOCALIST
Nordica, Lillian (12 December 1857, Farmington, Maine; 10 May 1914, Batavia, Java), vocalist, made her first tour as the soprano with Patrick S. Gilmore ’s band. Ambitious, she dropped out of this tour in 1878 to study voice in Paris and Milan, and it was not long before she was singing Elvira, Gilda, Marguerite, and Giacomo Meyerbeer ’s Alice for Italian audiences. She made a trip to Russia in 1880-81 but then returned to resume her studies in Paris with Jean-Baptiste Sibriglia until she could…