Titiens
or TEIEJENS, TERESA, a German operatic singer; born in Hamburg, Germany July 18, 1831. She appeared as Lucrezia in her native town in her 16th year, and soon established her position as the chief lyric artist in Germany before her début in London, on April 13, 1858, as Valentine in "The Huguenots." Her success here was so decided that she made that country her future home. She followed Mr. Mapleson's fortunes at the Opera House in the Haymarket and at Drury Lane, and was the chief attraction of his management. Nature not only gifted her with a voice of marvelous strength and brilliant quality, but with a dramatic force illumined by the fire of genius. As Norma, Donna Anna, Semiramide, Medea, and Leonora, she was unequalled by any of her contemporaries. In the concert room and in oratorio her success was unequivocal. She died in the full maturity of her powers on Oct. 3, 1877. A monument was erected to her memory in All- Souls' Cemetery, Kensal Green, London, in November, 1878.