Stars of the Opera / A Description of Operas & a Series of Personal Interviews with Marcela Sembrich, Emma Eames, Emma Calve, Lillian Nordica, Lilli Lehmann, Geraldine Farrar & Nellie Melba |
Photographs Copyright by AimÉ Dupont and Falk, New York. "STARS OF THE OPERA."
Photographs Copyright by AimÉ Dupont and Falk, New York.
"STARS OF THE OPERA."
STARS OF THE OPERA
A Description of Operas & a Series of Personal Interviews
with Marcela Sembrich, Emma Eames, Emma Calve,
Lillian Nordica, Lilli Lehmann, Geraldine Farrar
&
Nellie Melba
BY
MABEL WAGNALLS
Author of "Miserere," "Selma, the Soprano," etc.
REVISED AND ENLARGED EDITION
FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY
NEW YORK & LONDON
1909
Copyright, 1899, and 1907
BY
FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY
Registered at Stationers' Hall, London
[Printed in the United States]
AUTHOR'S NOTE
All the interviews in this book have been
proof-read by the singers
Published, September, 1907
To those who love music but have
no opportunity to familiarize themselves
with grand opera this
book is respectfully
dedicated
| TABLE OF CONTENTS | | PAGE | | An Interview With Marcella Sembrich | 13 | | "Semiramide" | 25 | | A Call on Emma Eames | 43 | | "Faust" | 57 | | "Werther" | 79 | | CalvÉ and "Carmen" | 105 | | "Carmen" | 117 | | "Hamlet" | 143 | | A Talk with Lillian Nordica | 169 | | "Lohengrin" | 185 | | "Aida" | 215 | | "The Huguenots" | 239 | | An Hour with Lilli Lehmann | 265 | | "The Flying Dutchman" | 279 | | Melba, the Australian Nightingale | 303 | | "Lakme" | 315 | | "I Pagliacci" | 337 | | "Orpheus and Eurydice" | 357 | | The Genius of Geraldine Farrar | 369 | | "Madame Butterfly" | 379 |
| LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS | FACING
PAGE | | Group of Miniature Portraits, "Stars of the Opera" | Frontispiece | | Marcella Sembrich | 15 | | Sembrich as Rosina in "The Barber of Seville" | 22 | | Emma Eames | 45 | | Melba as Marguerite in "Faust" | 64 | | Emma CalvÉ | 107 | | CalvÉ as Carmen | 128 | | CalvÉ as Ophelia in "Hamlet" | 164 | | Lillian Nordica | 171 | | Nordica as Brunhilde in "Siegfried" | 182 | | Eames as Elsa in "Lohengrin" | 202 | | Nordica as Aida | 220 | | Lilli Lehmann | 267 | | Lehmann as Isolde in "Tristan and Isolde" | 270 | | Lehmann as Venus in "TannhÄuser" | 276 | | Nellie Melba | 305 | | Melba as Elizabeth in "TannhÄuser" | 312 | | Geraldine Farrar | 371 | | Miss Farrar as "Madame Butterfly" | 384 |
An Interview
with
Marcella Sembrich
Copyright by AimÉ Dupont, N. Y. MARCELLA SEMBRICH.
Copyright by AimÉ Dupont, N. Y.
MARCELLA SEMBRICH. STARS OF THE OPERA
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