Marcella Lindh

Rose Jacobson was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan, the daughter of Johanna Cohen Jacobson and Solomon E. Jacobson. Her parents were both born in Mecklenburg, Germany.[1] She trained as a singer in Berlin.[2]

Marcella Lindh was the first soprano to sing with the John Philip Sousa Band, joining when the band formed in 1892 and staying into 1894.[3] She sang with the Sousa band at the St. Louis World's Fair in the autumn of 1893.[4] A Pennsylvania newspaper during this time praised her voice as "one of the few incomparable soprano voices of the generation...cultivated to such a nicety of perfection, as makes it a charm to the cultivated ear."[5]

She sang with Hinrich's Grand Opera in Boston in the spring of 1893.[6] She performed in a series of Wagner operas in German with the New York Symphony under Walter Damrosch,[7] at the Boston Theatre[6] and at the Metropolitan Opera House.[8] Soon after, she moved to Budapest (in Austria-Hungary) with her husband and young son. She taught voice at a conservatory there,[9] and continued performing.[10] During World War I she was "an official visitor for the American Red Cross mission in Hungary."[11]

Marcella Lindh returned to the United States in 1920,[11][12] and again in widowhood during World War II. She lived in Detroit, Michigan in her later years.[13]

Rose Jacobson married Markus Erwin Marcel Jellinek, a theatre manager and publisher from Budapest. Their son, E. Morton Jellinek, became a noted expert on alcoholism.[14] They also had a daughter, Edna.[1] Marcella Lindh was widowed when her husband died in 1939, in Budapest. She died in 1966, aged 99 years, in a Michigan nursing home.[15]