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 . suchsuccess that Mr. Eussell sought her out for hiscompany. Miss Scotney has a brilliant lyricsoprano voice, and has succeeded well, for ayoung singer, in such roles as Gilda in Eigo-letto, which suits so well the limpid qualityand exceptional purity of her voice. She hasalso sung Lucia and i i La Traviata. She wasregarded as a singer of exceptional promise. After the end of the season Miss Scotney Jsmarriage was announced to
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 . suchsuccess that Mr. Eussell sought her out for hiscompany. Miss Scotney has a brilliant lyricsoprano voice, and has succeeded well, for ayoung singer, in such roles as Gilda in Eigo-letto, which suits so well the limpid qualityand exceptional purity of her voice. She hasalso sung Lucia and i i La Traviata. She wasregarded as a singer of exceptional promise. After the end of the season Miss Scotney Jsmarriage was announced to Howard J. White,the son of a physician of Providence, E. I. is a graduate of Brown University inProvidence, E. I., who, after graduation tookto music as a profession and became a memberof the Boston Opera Company, in which he tookminor parts in a very satisfactory manner. Hehas a good bass voice, and is also a good celloplayer. Esther Ferrabini was a singer of much expe-rience. A native of Italy, she has sung in al-most every country in Europe and has had twoseasons in South America. She was a memberof the Montreal Opera Company before com-ing to ELIZABETH AMSDEN The Boston Opera-House 393 Yvonne de Treville, who came for a few per-formances in January, was, some ten yearsprevious, a leading soprano with Henry American Opera Company. She wasborn in Galveston, Texas, her father beingFrench and her mother American. In 1900,tired with too much singing she went to Italyfor rest. The following year she decided to tryher luck in Paris. After various changes ofdate, her debut actually took place at the OperaComique on June 20, 1902, as Lakme, and shereceived nine recalls. Since that time she hassung in many places. Her longest stop in anyplace was in Brussels where she remained threeyears at the Monnaie. Her appearance in Bos-ton was on January 15, as Gilda in Rigo-letto, ? when she showed herself to be an in-teresting singer of the light, lyric order, wit
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