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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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se greatsingers were exchanged more or less. For in-stance, Miss Garden was a member of thePhiladelphia-Chicago Company, which tookover many of Hammerstein s singers, and sheappeared in Boston and in New York. MissFremstadt (who won new laurels during thatseason by her impersonation of Isolde) was amember of the Metropolitan Company, but ap-peared in all four houses. Baklanofr* and Con-stantineau of the Boston Company were ex-changed in a similar manner, and there wasfrequent new interest in the repetitions ofoperas by the presentation of new principals.This plan works very well at the present stageof the operatic enterprise of this country. Madame Charles Cahier was formerly SarahLayton Walker, of Indianapolis. She beganher career in America as a church and oratoriosinger, and then went to Paris to complete herstudies with Jean de Reszke. She made a mostsuccessful debut at Nice as Orpheus, in 1904,in consequence of which she had several flat-tering offers from various European opera-
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MADAME CHARLES CAHIER The Metropolitan Opera-House 329 houses. On the advice of de Reszke she refusedall of them and went to Germany to perfectherself in the Wagner repertory. When shemade her German debut it was as Amneris in Aida at Brunswick, and after filling vari-ous short engagements in Berlin and othercities she finally accepted an offer from GustavMahler to go to the Vienna opera. Madame Cahier was also selected by Mahlerto be soloist in several of the musical festivalswhich he conducted, and in this capacity sangat Munich, Vienna, Gratz, Mannheim, and othercontinental cities. She has appeared too atfestivals in London and Paris. In New York she made only two appearancesin opera, at the end of the season (1911-1912),as Azucena in II Trovatore, and as Amnerisin Aida, and she sang at one of the Metro-politan Sunday evening concerts. She showedherself to be a singer of admirable qualities,whose vocal resources are of the best, andwhose style is finished and broad. Her actingwas v

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