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Title: 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
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Lahee, Henry Charles, 1856-1953
Subjects: Singers Opera
Publisher: Boston : L. C. Page
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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e, decided that it was worth train-ing. She was taught solfeggio at a school inher native city and then her mother was ad-vised to take her to Milan, to the Conservatoire.In this enterprise a prosperous neighbor gavea little help, and she went through her coursesatisfactorily. After graduation it was stilldifficult to find an engagement, but at last anopening was offered at a small town calledIvrea, where she made her debut in La Tra-viata. She was then seventeen, and did notunderstand acting, but as she knew how to singshe made a success. Engagements followed inTurin, Palermo, Rome, Naples, and Milan, andit was in Turin that Oscar Hammerstein heardher and thought that she would be an acquisi-tion for the Manhattan Company. He engagedher for five years. She was always popularwith New York audiences, and like many Ital-ians, she was superstitious, so she invariablyasked the manager for a quarter of a dollar for luck before going on the stage. Miss Trentini distinguished herself chiefly
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CARMEN MELIS The Manhattan Opera-House 237 by her characterization of Yniold in Pelleaset Melisande, which has been called ingeniousand picturesque. When Carmen Melis made her debut in NewYork on November 26, 1909, as Tosca the Globesaid: Madame Melis is seemingly a singingactress in the best sense of the word. Unlikemost of the singers at the Manhattan Opera-House she has come here almost unheralded.Only the more notable therefore is her success,because won simply and solely on personalmerit, and in no wise discounted by the flourishof anticipatory trumpets. Madame Melis is young. The charm ofyouth is in her face, her figure, voice and bear-ing. There is no suggestion of immaturity.She is a woman. Character informs the clearlychiselled features and the head, crowned withabundance of jet black hair, is finely poised.The warmth of temperament that imbued heracting yesterday, was controlled by judgmentand no little art. And Madame Melis is effectivein song as well as in action. The voic

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