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 . the Boston Opera Company. Mr. Mardones is an accomplished singer andhas a large repertoire which he sings both inFrench and Italian. His chief success with theBoston Company has been in Boitos Mefisto-fele, in which he took the title role. Sibiriakoff, a Russian, has impressive, butnot ponderous or sluggish bulk, and orders hisposes and movements skilfully. His voice is arich, smooth, flexible bass, skilfully directed,capable
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 . the Boston Opera Company. Mr. Mardones is an accomplished singer andhas a large repertoire which he sings both inFrench and Italian. His chief success with theBoston Company has been in Boitos Mefisto-fele, in which he took the title role. Sibiriakoff, a Russian, has impressive, butnot ponderous or sluggish bulk, and orders hisposes and movements skilfully. His voice is arich, smooth, flexible bass, skilfully directed,capable of emotional and characterizing sig-nificance, and free from clouding infirmities anderrors of what the singing teachers call method. His tones give sensuous pleasure,he knows how to sing. As yet he has not muchfinesse, and he is no subtle penetrator of oper-atic character and operatic music. Elizabeth Amsden is a native of East Boston,but during her school days her family moved toProvidence, R. I., where she finished her edu-cation at the Elmhurst School in 1892. At thistime her voice began to attract attention andshe entered the International School for singers. Photograph by J. Williams, Boston JOSE MARDONES AS RAMFIS IN AIDA The Boston Opera-House 391 in Boston where she studied under WilliamWhitney. She went to Paris where she re-mained for six years, and then appeared atCovent Garden in London under the manage-ment of Beecham, in 1910, after which she hadengagements in Nice and Brussels. She be-came a member of the Boston Opera Companyin 1911, and has proved herself a singer of morethan ordinary ability. She is tall and slender,with a fine figure, has dramatic ability andmagnetism, and is an unusually good linguist,speaking Italian, French and German, besideshaving a good knowledge of Russian. Though she had been heard in one of the Sun-day evening concerts, her operatic debut in Bos-ton was made on January 20, when she sangAida, with Constantineau, Blanchart and Mar-don
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