Laura Schirmer Mapleson

Laura Schirmer Mapleson (1862–1894) was an American operatic singer in the Victorian era of the 1880–90s.

Laura Schirmer Mapleson
Born	Laura Marguerite Schirmer 1862 Boston, Massachusetts
Died	January 24, 1894 New York City, New York
Resting place	Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts (Middlesex County)
Occupation	singer
Years active	1870s-1894
Spouse(s)	Arthur Byron(d.1889) Colonel Henry Mapleson

Biography

Born Laura Marguerite Schirmer in 1862, as a child she began singing in her native Boston. As a teenager she trained in Leipzig, Berlin, and Vienna and appeared in a New York City concert by Franz Rummel. She performed in New York and Boston and in 1883 went to Europe where she married a tenor Arthur Byron in Italy. She appeared at Pisa in Italy, Turkey, Russia and Germany. She appeared in command performance before Turkish ruler Sultan Abdul Hamid II and was scheduled to sing again before his court, but a reporter in Trimm's Petit Journal alleged that she and others had been poisoned in the Sultan's court. She married her second husband Henry Mapleson in Paris in 1890.

She died January 24, 1894 at New York's Everett House of pneumonia, from influenza contracted while performing at the Pittsburgh Opera House on January 13, 1894.[1][2][3]

References

1. "Laura Marguerite Schirmer Mapleson (1862-1894)". Find A Grave Memorial. Retrieved 2018-08-07.
2. New York Times January 25, 1894; "Death of Laura Schirmer Mapleson"
3. "Search Results « Chronicling America « Library of Congress : Various newspaper articles confined to 1893-1894". chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. Retrieved 2018-08-07.

External links

• Cabinet card portraits(archived)
• Music to FADETTE; Mapleson Opera Co.(New York Public Library, Billy Rose collection)
• portrait of Madame Schirmer Mapleson (by Alex Bassano)
• Laura Schirmer Mapleson at Find a Grave