The New Student's Reference Work/Eames, Emma

Eames, Emma (Mrs. Julian Story), American soprano singer, also famed for her beauty, was born at Shanghai, China, Aug. 13, 1867, and is the daughter of an American lawyer then employed in the international courts at Shanghai.  Her early years were spent at Bath, Me., her musical studies being directed by her mother, and under instruction in Boston.  In 1886 she proceeded to Paris, where she was a pupil of Mme. Marchesi, and appeared in 1888 at the Opéra Comique, and in the following year made her debut in grand opera in Gounod’s Romeo et Juliette.  She sang with Mme. Patti and with the brothers De Reszke, and met with great success.  In England she appeared at the Covent Garden theatre, London, in her impersonation of Marguerite.  In the United States she added to her high reputation as a prima-donna, and won fresh laurels under Herr Grau, in her famous operatic parts, including Wagnerian rôles.  Her repertoire is extensive, and not only English but in French, German and Italian.  In 1891 she married a son of W. W. Story, the well-known American poet and sculptor.  In 1908 they divorced, and she now resides in Paris, Prance.