1892 ca, Paris, FRANCE: The celebrated french singer soprano Emma Calvé (Rosa Emma Calvet, 1858-1942) in the role of CARMEN by Georges Bizet, Calvé was probably the most famous French female opera singer of the Belle Epoque.Celebrated in in Charles Gounod 's Faust, L'Amico Fritz by Pietro Mascagni, Cavalleria rusticana by Mascagni, Bizet' s Carmen, Mignon by Ambroise Thomas, Massenet's La Navarraise and Sapho. Calve' was a lesbian of circle of most rich american heiress Winnaretta Singer De Polignac in Paris