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 . e in America, and having ap-peared with good success in concerts was takenon by Mr. Conried. Eossi had sung with Madame Sembrich inVienna in 1898, and during his American careerhad great success in supporting her in bufforoles in Don Pasquali and such works. Pre-vious to his arrival in America he had been forseveral seasons at La Scala, Milan. He be-came a very popular singer in this was born in Eome in 1869. Wh
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 . e in America, and having ap-peared with good success in concerts was takenon by Mr. Conried. Eossi had sung with Madame Sembrich inVienna in 1898, and during his American careerhad great success in supporting her in bufforoles in Don Pasquali and such works. Pre-vious to his arrival in America he had been forseveral seasons at La Scala, Milan. He be-came a very popular singer in this was born in Eome in 1869. When he wasa young man his voice promised to be a tenor,but he fell into the river and had an attack ofpleurisy after which his voice settled into made his debut at Parma in 1891, and touredSouth America with Patti. Of all the singers engaged by Conried at theMetropolitan Opera-House no one ever becameso great a celebrity as Enrico Caruso. As anactor and as a singer his art was inferior tothat of several of his rivals, but his voice wasone of the most wonderful organs ever be-stowed upon man. His popularity became sogreat that in April, 1906, a writer in the. Copyright by Mishkin Studio, New York ENRICO CARUSO The Metropolitan Opera-House 29 Forum described the situation as beingcomparable with the old game of What areyou going to give the old bachelor to keep housewith? in which the answer had to be invari-ably the same. Thus, — What were the prin-cipal operas performed at the Metropolitan?Caruso. Who sang the chief roles? was German opera given so late? Ca-ruso. One might add to that another ques-tion, What is Italian Opera? Caruso. No singer in the history of opera in Americahas been such a bonanza to newspaper writers,for every doing of Caruso has been reportedand enlarged upon. We have waded throughseveral bushels of newspaper clippings bearingupon Caruso and his career and there are veryfew of them that seem worth repeating. Oneclipping is amusing and c
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