Bianka Blume

Bianka Blume (4 May 1843 – December 1896) was a German soprano opera singer.

Early life Bianka George was born on 4 May 1843 in Reichenbach and was the daughter of a music and book dealer. After being orphaned at an early age, she was adopted by lithographic printer George Sauter in Wrocław. Originally, she had wanted to become a teacher but beginning at age 14, she took private singing lessons with Wrocław choir director Julius Hirschberg, and from the age of 15, started to perform concerts. In 1859, she sang the soprano solo of Emma Mampe-Babnigg in Joseph Haydn's The Creation, after the latter suddenly fell ill. Blume's performance was positively received, despite the fact that she had never sung those solos before.

Career In 1861, she officially began her career as Alice in Giacomo Meyerbeer's Robert le diable at the Wrocław Opera.

Blume died in Buenos Aires in December 1896, at the age of 53.