Clementine von Schuch-Proska

Clementine Edle von Schuch-Proska, née Procházka, (12 February 1850 – 8 June 1932) was an Austrian operatic coloratura soprano, who became an audience favourite and an honorary member of the Dresden Court Opera as Kammersängerin.

Immediately afterwards, in 1873, she was engaged to sing the debut role of Norina in Donizetti's Don Pasquale as coloratura soprano in Dresden at the Semperoper, where she became an audience favourite.

[1] The composer Pittrich, as Kammersängerin 1891, dedicated two of his early works written in Dresden to her the "Wiegendlied" and the song "Mägdlein, nimm dich in Acht"[2] which became "immediately popular".

[3] After her official retirement in 1894 with her former debut role as Norina in Donizetti's Don Pasquale,[1] she still performed occasionally as a guest in Dresden until 1898, when she was made an honorary member.

At her stage farewell in the same year, which she gave with one of her signature roles, Norina in Donizetti's Don Pasquale, she was appointed honorary member of the Dresden Court Opera by the King Albert of Saxony.