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 . n engagement in the Royal Opera at Bucha-rest, Madame Rappold was decorated by theKing of Roumania, and when she went to Paristo fill an engagement, the manager of the Operain Bucharest followed the singer thither, beg-ging her to accept a prolonged engagement inthe Roumanian city. About this time, too,Madame Rappold received enticing offers fromBerlin and Vienna, but Mr. Gatti-Casazza, ofthe Metropolitan Opera-House, re-enga
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 . n engagement in the Royal Opera at Bucha-rest, Madame Rappold was decorated by theKing of Roumania, and when she went to Paristo fill an engagement, the manager of the Operain Bucharest followed the singer thither, beg-ging her to accept a prolonged engagement inthe Roumanian city. About this time, too,Madame Rappold received enticing offers fromBerlin and Vienna, but Mr. Gatti-Casazza, ofthe Metropolitan Opera-House, re-engaged herfor the Metropolitan Opera-House. All of thisbattle over the securing of Madame Rappoldtook place in Paris early in the summer of refused the European offers and returnedto her own country. In 1910-1911, at the Metropolitan Opera-House, Madame Rappold sang roles like Aida,Leonora in II Trovatore, Eurydice in Orfeo, and other parts. The Europeancritics have declared her to be the ideal Elsaand Elizabeth. The peculiar timbre of hervoice lends itself to singing the roles of boththe lyric and dramatic sopranos. Rita Fornia is a native of San Francisco,. Copyright by Mishkin Studio, New York MARIE RAPPOLD The Metropolitan Opera-House 59 ———^^^—————^——^——?——^^SE5B where she was known as Eita Newman. Hervoice was discovered when she was very young,and when Adelina Patti visited San Francisco,the young girl was filled with a desire to becomea second Patti. Her father, at first, would nothear of such a thing, but at length consented toher going to study in New York. There shemet Emil Fischer, who told her that her voicewas remarkable and that she must go telegraphed to her father so frequentlyand urgently that at last he sent money enoughto enable her to go for six months. Her teacher in Berlin said that her voice wasa coloratura soprano, and she made her debutin La Juive as Eudoxia at Hamburg, whereMarian Weed and Carl Burrian were
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