Gabrielle Krauss

She created major roles in operas by Anton Rubinstein, Charles Gounod, Camille Saint-Saëns, Auguste Mermet, Clémence de Grandval, Errico Petrella, Antônio Carlos Gomes and Émile Paladilhe.

She sang in Vienna until 1867, her other roles there including Anna in Boieldieu's La dame blanche and Valentine in Meyerbeer's Les Huguenots.

[1] Italy first saw Krauss in Naples in 1872, when she created a role in Errico Petrella's Manfredo, an opera based on Lord Byron's poem Manfred.

On 16 February 1873, she created the title role in Antônio Carlos Gomes' Fosca at its premiere at La Scala, Milan, which also starred Victor Maurel.

Krauss also created Pauline in Gounod's Polyeucte (7 October 1878); Hermosa in his Le tribut de Zamora (1 April 1881; her patriotic aria "Debout!

had to be encored); the title role in the revised version of Sapho (2 April 1884, under the composer's baton; Léon Melchissédec and Pol Plançon were also in the cast); and Catherine d'Aragon in Saint-Saëns' Henry VIII (5 March 1883).

[4] Tchaikovsky saw her in Paris in Weber's Der Freischütz in 1879 and wrote a glowing review of her performance as Agatha, while criticising other aspects of the production.