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] |