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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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ed in her, and she studied under thevenerable Cotogni. At the end of six monthsshe made her debut at Perugia as the Motherin La Gioconda. Other engagements fol-lowed, and she sang such roles as Azucena, Am-neris, Dalila, etc. She also went to Paris tostudy French roles. While singing at CoventGarden Andreas Dippel heard her, and MissWittkowska was secured for the Chicago-Phila-delphia Opera Company, of which she has beenone of the most popular members. George Hamlin, who already .had an inter-national reputation as a concert and oratoriosinger, became a member of the Chicago-Phil-adelphia Company in the season of 1911-1912,having been asked by Mr. Dippel to sing theleading role in Natoma, an America opera,on an American subject, to be sung by Amer-ican singers. Mr. Hamlin is a native of Chicago, and as ayoung man developed a good voice and attractedattention as an amateur. He was expecting abusiness career, but being invited to sing as solo-ist in a production of the Hymn of Praise at
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Photograph by — matzene — Chicago MARTA WITTKOWSKA AS AMNERIS IN AIDA The Chicago-Philadelphia Company 437 St. Louis, and making a distinct success, he de-cided upon music for his profession. He insti-tuted Sunday afternoon concerts in Chicago, aplan which has become popular. Mr. Hamlin has appeared repeatedly as a con-cert singer with nearly all the leading musicalorganizations in America, and has had manysimilar engagements in Germany, besides givingmany song recitals. Grand opera is an entirely different field, andleads to criticism from a different point of view,but Mr. Hamlin stood the ordeal. Mr. Ham-lins voice, wrote a critic after the Philadel-phia debut, has much to commend it in theway of smoothness and sympathy, and he singswith taste and skill, while he also carried him-self well, put real feeling into his acting, andaltogether made a highly favorable impression.His enunciation was noticeably clear and dis-tinct. Gustav Huberdeau, the French basso-can-tante, joined the

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