About Gabrielle Gills
Lived 1850 – 1950 (aged 99–100). Gabrielle Gills was an opera singer.
Gabrielle Gills (born 1880) was a French operatic soprano.
Biography She was born in 1880 in France. Her first United States musical performance was in 1917 when she was brought from Paris, France by Otto Hermann Kahn, who was a wealthy financier and president of the Metropolitan Opera.
In 1917, after one of her New York recitals, she was described in the newspaper as "an artist of rare powers and accomplishment, wholly representative of the most characteristic features of French art."
She performed at New York's Metropolitan Opera House in concert on February 25, 1917 conducted by Richard Hageman.
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Who was Gabrielle Gills?
French operatic soprano
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Gabrielle Gills was born in 1850.
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Gabrielle Gills died in 1950.
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Gabrielle Gills was an opera singer.
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