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قراءة كتاب Stars of the Opera A Description of Operas & a Series of Personal Interviews with Marcela Sembrich, Emma Eames, Emma Calvé, Lillian Nordica, Lilli Lehmann, Geraldine Farrar & Nellie Melba
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Stars of the Opera A Description of Operas & a Series of Personal Interviews with Marcela Sembrich, Emma Eames, Emma Calvé, Lillian Nordica, Lilli Lehmann, Geraldine Farrar & Nellie Melba
STARS OF THE OPERA
BY
MABEL WAGNALLS
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" | |