CALVE, EMMA ), operatic singer, was born at Decazeville, Aveyron, in 1866, and trained in Paris, making her first important appearance in opera at Brussels in 1882. She sang mainly in Paris for some years, but in 1892 she came to London and achieved immediate fame and popularity at Covent Garden, more especially by her wonderful Carmen (in Bizet's opera), a part with which her name will always be associated. She sang at the Metropolitan and Manhattan opera houses in New York; she lectured on singing in the United States in the summer of 1927.