Louis Goldsteen

6 Mar 1876 - 12 Aug 1940

• OCCUPATION: Merchant, Opera Singer
  
• BIRTH: 6 Mar 1876, Amsterdam
• DEATH: 12 Aug 1940, Huntington, USA

• DIVORCE: Y
  

1.  Elisabeth Sophie Goldsteen

                                                _Israël Berend Goldsteen __+
                                               | (1778 - 1842)             
                       _Levi Israël Goldsteen _|
                      | (1802 - 1877) m 1836   |
                      |                        |_Mientje Levie de Leeuw ___
                      |                          (1782 - ....)             
 _Gerard Goldsteen ___|
| (1845 - ....) m 1875|
|                     |                         _Levie Meijer Kan _________+
|                     |                        | (1763 - 1847)             
|                     |_Betje Levi Kan ________|
|                       (1808 - ....) m 1836   |
|                                              |_Hanna Abrahams van Cleef _+
|                                                (1766 - 1861)             
|
|--Louis Goldsteen 
|  (1876 - 1940)
|                                               ___________________________
|                                              |                           
|                      _Izaak Jacob Itallie ___|
|                     | (1797 - 1891) m 1822   |
|                     |                        |___________________________
|                     |                                                    
|_Betje Itallie ______|
  (1845 - 1899) m 1875|
                      |                         _Philippus Asser Feitsma __
                      |                        | (1773 - 1839)             
                      |_Dina Philip Feitsma ___|
                        (1800 - 1869) m 1822   |
                                               |_Anna Salomon van Gelder __+
                                                 (1771 - 1836)             

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The Jewish singer Louis Goldsteen was born in 1876. He made his debut in 1909 with the 'Opera-Vereeniging' (Opera-Company) in the role of 'Walter van der Vogelweide' in Wagner's Tannhäuser. In 1910 he appeared with the same company in the role of Don José in Carmen. Carmen herself was sung by Irma Lozin. Between 1909 and 1925 he gave numerous performances in the Netherlands, of which between 1914 and 1918 regular with the 'Franse (French) Opera in The Hague ( Théatre Royal de La Haye) , in roles as Arnold (Guillaume Tell), Faust, Radames (Aida), Tanhäuser, the duke (Rigoletto), Manrico (Trovatore), Eleazar (La Juive) and many others. He appeared a.o. with opponents as: Maartje Offers (Amneris, Aida and Dalila from Samson and Dalila), Joy Mac-Arden (Marguerite, Faust), Liesbeth Poolmann-Meisner (Elisabeth, Tannhäuser), Greta Santhagens-Manders (Elisabeth, Tannhäuser) and Lea Fuldauer (Nedda, Paljas). He sang also regular abroad, in Belgium a.o. in Li¨ge, in 1913 in Aachen, afterwards in Berlin. From 1920 he sang in the United States, where he later settled down. Abroad he used the name of Louis Dornay.

He deceased in 1940.

Source: dutchdivas.net

In 1923 he married in Chicago Julia Bertha Culp, birth 19 Jan 1883 Groningen, died 18 Mar 1976 Laren, occupation: Pianist.

Source: Dutch Jewry Database