NILS'SON (ROUZAUD), CIIRISTINE, b. Sweden, 1843. At an early age showed a taste for music, and although her parents were in humble circumstances, became quite proficient on the violin, learned the flute, and attended fairs and other places of public resort, at she saw*, accompanying herself on the violin. While performing in this manner at a fair at in 1857, her voice attracted the attention of F. G. Tornerhjelm, a gentle man of influence, who sent her to Stockholm, where she received instruction from Franz Berwald. She made her debut at Stockholm in 1860, and then went to Paris to continue her musical education, under Masset and Wartel. In 1864 she appeared at the Theatre Lyrique of Paris, as Violetta in Trariata, with such success that she was engaged to sing for three years. She made her first appearance in London in 1867, where she immediately became a favorite. In 1868 she sang the part of Ophelia in the opera of
Jinnilet, b' Arnbroise Thomas, at the Grand Opera in Paris. During the same year she S sang in iltigland at the Handel festival at the Crystal palace. In 1870 she came to America, appearing iu concerts and operas, and achieved popularity wherever she was heard. She was married at Westminster abbey, in 1872, to Auguste Rouzaud, a mer chaut of Paris. After creating great enthusiasm at St. Petersburg, she returned to America with the Strakosch Italian opera troupe, containing such artists as Campanini Maurel, Capoul, Del Puente, and Annie Louise Cary. She appeared as Elsa in Wagner's _Lohengrin, and sang during the same season in opera with Pauline Lucca. Her remark, able voice and unusual dramatic gifts have combined to make her one of the foremost _singers of the time.