A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Hauck, Minnie

by George Grove

HAUCK, Minnie, born (of a German father) at New York Nov. 16, 1852, made her first appearance at a concert at New Orleans about 1865. She was then placed under the care of Signor Errani in New York, and made her début on the stage of that city as Amina in 1868. After a successful tour in the States with a large répertoire of characters she came to London, and appeared at Covent Garden as Amina (Oct. 26, 1868) and Margherita. In 1869 she was engaged by the Grand Opera, Vienna, and sang there and at Moscow, Berlin, Paris, and Brussels, with great success for several years in a large range of parts. On April 27, 1878, she reappeared here at Her Majesty's as Violetta in the Traviata. She sustained the part of Carmen in Bizet's opera of that name at Brussels, and on its production in London by Mr. Mapleson at Her Majesty's on June 2 2, thus making the success of the piece, which had not pleased in Paris, and showing herself to be not only a high-class singer, but also possessed of no ordinary dramatic power. Her voice is a mezzo soprano of great force and richness, and she is said to sing Italian, German, French and Hungarian with equal facility.

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