The grand opera singers of to-day : an account of the leading operatic stars who have sung during recent years, together with a sketch of the chief operatic enterprises . guerite, a Juliet, a Manon. A fresh and youth-ful voice with a tender and womanly a singer pure and simple, she is not yet tobe reckoned among the truly great who shine inboth lyric and dramatic parts. She is not amistress of bravura, but as she is to-day hersinging is spontaneous and free and it worksa spell. . Her voice alone would give pleas-ure if she were not a play actress of muchmore than ordinary ability. H
The grand opera singers of to-day : an account of the leading operatic stars who have sung during recent years, together with a sketch of the chief operatic enterprises . guerite, a Juliet, a Manon. A fresh and youth-ful voice with a tender and womanly a singer pure and simple, she is not yet tobe reckoned among the truly great who shine inboth lyric and dramatic parts. She is not amistress of bravura, but as she is to-day hersinging is spontaneous and free and it worksa spell. . Her voice alone would give pleas-ure if she were not a play actress of muchmore than ordinary ability. Her Marguerite ispoetic yet very human. . Her facial expres-sion, her gestures and her repose are all elo-quent and, wonder of wonders, they are singu-larly suited, yet without too deliberate atten-tion to the music. . Young as Miss Farraris she has already mastered the great art ofpreparing a dramatic climax. . And whata pleasure it was to see a youthful, charming,graceful Marguerite, and not a mature woman,an ineffectively disguised matron, simulatinglaboriously the amorous enthusiasm of maiden-hood !•»These are criticisms made at the beginning. GERALDINE FARRAR AS MANON The Metropolitan Opera-House 83 of her American career. During the interveningyears Miss Farrar has gained in every re-spect, and has been one of the strongest attrac-tions whenever she has appeared in opera. When Greraldine Farrar sang in New York in1909 Mr. Finck compared her with MadameCalve in the following words: ? America toohas produced a Calve. Her name is GreraldineFarrar. Had she the gift of perfect coloratura,she too would make her hearers shiver withterror in the 6 Hamlet ? mad scene. That roleis not in her repertoire, but as Mignon she islike Calve in Carmen/ so true to life thatone forgets she is acting, and again as inCalves case one is so absorbed by the charmof her impersonation that one may fail torealize how beautiful is her song as such. Oncemore she suggests Calve by the amazing mobil-i
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