Georgina (or Georgine) Schubert (28 October 1840 - 26 December 1878) was a German coloratura soprano and lieder composer who toured throughout Europe.[1][2]
Life
Schubert was born in
Dresden to violinist and composer
Francois Schubert and his wife, soprano Maschinka Schubert. She is not related to the better known composer
Franz Schubert. [3][4][5] Her maternal grandparents were also musicians: Kapellmeister
Georg Abraham Schneider and his wife, Dresden Court Opera singer Caroline Portmann. Schubert’s first teacher was her mother.[2] She later studied with
Jenny Lind and
Manuel Garcia.[6]
Schubert sang at major venues in England (
Alexandra Palace and
Grosvenor House).[7][8][9] She appeared at the Lyric Theater in Paris, and at venues in the Netherlands and throughout Europe.[10][11] She sang the role of
Dinorah in Giacomo Meyerbeer’s Le Pardon de Ploermel more than 30 times.[12]