Reszké, Josephine de
(1855–1891)> SOPRANO
Reszké, Josephine de (4 June 1855, Warsaw; February 1891, Warsaw) was a soprano and sister of Edouard Reszké and Jean de Reszké. She studied voice first with her mother and then with Mme Nissen-Salomon , and she made her debut billed as Giuseppina di Reschi at the Malibran Theatre in Venice, where, on 1 August 1874, she sang Marguerite in Faust to her brother Jean’s Valentin. The director of the Paris Opéra heard her in Charles Gounod ’s work and put her under contract. The young soprano made…