Regina Vicarino

Reine Annette Vicarino was born in New York City, the daughter of Edouard Joseph Vicarino and Leontine Camille Serre Vicarino. Her father was born in Switzerland; her mother was born in New York, to French-born parents.[1] Reine (who used the Italian form of her name, Regina) studied voice with Delia Valeri, and with Arthur Lawrason in New York.[2][3]

Vicarino's voice was described as having "all the range and limpidity of an ideal coloratura," in the Los Angeles Herald in 1910; the critic went into further detail, writing that "The upper register is clear and brilliant, and the lower tones are wonderfully vibrant and rich for a coloratura voice."[4] She frequently sang the lead role in Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor,[5] and she was also considered successful as Violetta in La traviata,[6] and as Micaela in Carmen.[7]

She sang with the Bevani Grand Opera Company in San Francisco in 1910.[8] In the 1917-1918 season she toured New England and Canada with the Giuseppe Creatore Grand Opera Company.[9] In 1921, she sang a recital at Carnegie Hall,[2] performed in the summer "Zoo Grand Opera" productions in Cincinnati, Ohio,[10] and she toured cities in the western United States and Canada with the San Carlo Opera Company.[11] In 1922 she appeared in a radio production of Mozart's The Impresario.[12] She made recordings for Lyric Records, and for others under the pseudonym "Josepha Donnelli".[13]

Later in her career, she taught voice privately and at Sullins College, Brenau College, and Arlington Hall.[14][15][16] In 1935 and 1937, she appeared at the Mazica Hall in Miami, Florida, giving "operalogues".[17][18][19]

Regina Vicarino married businessman George Vest Guyer in 1912. They had a daughter, Regina "Mimi" Vicarino Guyer, born in 1916.[20] George died suddenly in 1922.[21] Regina Vicarino died in 1957, aged 71.