tailieunhanh - Famous Singers of To-day and Yesterday

It has been the desire of the author to give, in a book of modest dimensions, as complete a record as possible of the "Famous Singers" from the establishment of Italian Opera down to the present day. The majority are opera singers, but in a few cases oratorio and concert singers of exceptional celebrity have been mentioned also. To give complete biographical sketches of all singers of renown would require a work of several large volumes, and all that can be attempted here is to give a mere "bird's-eye view" of those whose names exist as singers of international repute | Singers of To-day and Yesterday by Henry C. Lahee 1 Singers of To-day and Yesterday by Henry C. Lahee Project Gutenberg s Famous Singers of To-day and Yesterday by Henry C. Lahee This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at Title Famous Singers of To-day and Yesterday Author Henry C. Lahee Singers of To-day and Yesterday by Henry C. Lahee 2 Release Date July 15 2010 EBook 33168 Language English Character set encoding ISO-8859-1 START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK FAMOUS SINGERS Produced by Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http This file was produced from images available by The Internet Archive. FAMOUS SINGERS LAHEE Illustration Calvé as Santuzza. Famous Singers of To-day and Yesterday By Henry C. Lahee ILLUSTRATED Illustration logo Boston L. C. Page and Company Incorporated 1898 Copyright 1898 BY L. C. PAGE AND COMPANY INCORPORATED Colonial Press Electrotyped and Printed by C. H. Simonds Co. Boston U. S. A. CONTENTS. CHAPTER PAGE 3 CHAPTER PAGE PREFACE vii I. FROM 1600 TO 1800 . 11 II. PASTA TO MARIO 41 III. MARIO TO TIETIENS 77 IV. PRIMA DONNAS OF THE FIFTIES 110 V. PRIMA DONNAS OF THE SIXTIES 143 VI. PRIMA DONNAS OF THE SEVENTIES 186 VII. PRIMA DONNAS OF THE EIGHTIES 220 VIII. TENORS AND BARITONES 260 IX. CONTRALTOS AND BASSOS 296 CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF FAMOUS SINGERS 325 INDEX 333 ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE CALVÉ AS SANTUZZA Frontispiece JENNY LIND 84 JEAN DE RESZKE AS ROMEO 98 ADELINA PATTI 128 NILSSON AS VALENTINE 162 LILLIAN NORDICA 220 MELBA AS OPHELIA 244 EMMA EAMES 258 EDOUARD DE RESZKE AS MEPHISTOPHELES 272 ALVARY IN RIGOLETTO 280 SOFIA SCALCHI .