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TREBELLI-BISTTINI. bBorN 1838. ALLLE. ZEL1L M4 THERESI, CAROLINEL GILLEBERT DE BEAU- [.IIEU was born at Paris, her family belonging to the oldest nobility of [rance. She was taught the piano at the age of sy, and, on the discovery that she possessed a re- markable contralto voice, was tramed for the Ivric stage by Herr Wastel She made her first ap- pearance at Madrid 1

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Italian name m order to succeed m o Itahan opera, Mademoiselle Gillebert formed the name by which she was known to the public by leaving out the (i of her own name and spelling the remainder backwards. I‘rom the hirstthere was no doubt of her right to stand i the very foremost rank of great singers, In 1862 shefirst appeared 1 Tondon, and soon afterwards married Signor Bettin. In private hfe she was loved and respected by

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“Norma,” at the age of twenty-one,and as it all who knew her, and her recent unexpected was at that time Indispensable to have an death occasioned wide-spread regrat,