MME. ALBANI.
From a Photo. by| AGE 18. |Levitsky, Paris.
From a Photo. by| AGE 19. |Bergamasco, St. Petersburg.
The first portrait we give of Mme. Albani-Gye shows her at eighteen years, when a student under M. Duprez, of Paris. The second represents her at nineteen, as La Sonnambula, in which rôle she made a triumphant début in 1872 at Covent Garden. Mme. Albani spent her 25th birthday in New York, where she created the part of Elsa. The last photograph represents her as Desdemona, a character which particularly appeals to her.
From a Photo. by| AGE 25. |Sarony, New York.
From a Photo. by| PRESENT DAY. |Sarony, New York.