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Zelmira Segreda Solera de Cappella

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In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Segreda and the second or maternal family name is Solera.
Zelmira Segreda Solera de Cappella
Born
Zelmira Segreda Solera

(1878-05-29)29 May 1878
Heredia, Costa Rica
Died19 July 1923(1923-07-19) (aged 45)
San José, Costa Rica
Occupation(s)Singer, teacher
SpouseEnrique Cappella Palmieri
Children2
RelativesGonzalo Facio Segreda (nephew)[1]

Zelmira Segreda Solera de Cappella (1878–1923) was a Costa Rican soprano. She studied singing in Italy and was a successful performer on her return to Costa Rica. She is "considered one of the most important dramatic sopranos that Costa Rica has ever had."[2]

Biography

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Zelmira Segreda Solera was born in Heredia, Costa Rica on 29 May 1878. Her parents were Rosendo Segreda Zamora and Susana Filomena de los Dolores Solera Rodríguez.[1]

Segreda went to school at Colegio Nuestra Señora de Sión in Costa Rica.[2] Around 1905 she went to Italy on a scholarship to study singing.[3] Segreda spent six months in Milan[a] before moving to Rome to study at the Conservatorio Santa Cecilia, where she won a prize and graduated some time between 1906 and 1909.[1] On 6 February 1909 Segreda married Italian architect Enrique Cappella Palmieri, Marquis of Rocca San Felice and Baron of Caprofico, with whom she later had two children, Yolanda and Antonio.[1]

In 1910 Segreda returned to Costa Rica and was living in Cartago when the city was destroyed by the 1910 Costa Rica earthquakes.[2] Following the earthquakes Segreda moved to San José, where she had a successful singing career, and also taught music.[2] Segreda performed several times at the National Theatre of Costa Rica, singing with others including Melico Salazar [es].[2] In 1916 she was invited by Amelita Galli-Curci to accompany her on a singing tour of South America, but refused for family reasons.[2]

Segreda died on 19 July 1923 of pernicious anemia.[1] Her funeral was attended by Costa Rican president Julio Acosta García and former presidents Cleto González Víquez and Carlos Durán Cartín.[3]

Notes

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  1. ^ It has been reported that Segreda first studied at a conservatory in Naples, but Segreda herself made no mention of this.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f Luis Gustavo Lobo Bejarano (2023-05-31). "Zelmira Segreda Solera de Cappella, a cien años de su muerte" [100 years after her death]. Repertorio Americano: Segunda Nueva Época (in Spanish) (33): 359–404. ISSN 0252-8479. Retrieved 2025-02-01.
  2. ^ a b c d e f Bernal Flores (2002). "Segreda Solera, Zelmira". In Emilio Casares Rodicio (ed.). Diccionario de la Música Española e Hispanoamericana (in Spanish). Vol. 9: Rábago – Sorgin. Sociedad General de Autores y Editores. p. 908. ISBN 84-8048-312-1.
  3. ^ a b Carlos Enrique Chinchilla (1978), Homenaje a la memoria de doña Zelmira Segreda Solera de Cappella (in Spanish), Escuela de Artes Musicales de la Universidad de Costa Rica, retrieved 2025-02-01
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