Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1895-01-11
BRATTLBBORO'S OONTRALTo.
Harriet BraSOr Pratt Will Sing
With Patti, Calve and Nevada

with Patti Calve and Nevada
III Grand Opera at Nice---UnantmOusly
Chosen by the Municipal Commission
---IIer Success in Hamlet and other
operas.
Mrs. Harriet Brasor Pratt's brilliant
debut in grand opera at Nice, France, has
been followed by succession of triumphs
in different roles. She was received with
great enthusiasm as the Queen in Hamlet
"A part which gives much opportunity for
dramatic effect in addition to vocalization
The favor in which Mrs. Pratt is held in
Nice is shown by the fact that she was the
only member of the opera company who
was unanimously received by the munich
pal committee of thirty appointed to hear
the different candidates and select the
members of the company In her present
position Mrs. Pratt will sing as contralto
with some of the most noted sopranos in
the world. She is now away from her
teachers and trainers, and while applying
all that she has learned from them is de-
veloping her own personality in her own
individual way, with what result the press
criticisms show. The Swiss and Nice
Times, an English paper published at Nice,
says of the committee decision: "The mu-
nicipal commission at the opera have finally
agreed to the admission of all the artistes
forming the various troupes, and now the
latter no longer have this sword of Damo-
Giles suspended over their heads they can
devote their whole attention to preparing
themselves for their parts. We are graft
tied at the commissions decision on ac-
count of our American contrato, Nine
Brazil, about whose admission, however
there was no doubt. And now i'm the
course of the season this talented lady will
be called upon to sing in the same operas
with Emma Nevada, Adelna Patti and
Emma Calvc, preliminary stage, inevi-
table, in her career, until making as great
a name as these for herself. When that
day comes Brattleboro will illuminate"
From Le Gaulois and LelMatin, two of the lead
ing daily papers Of Paris.
Our correspondent telegraphs us from
Nice, where the opera season has lust
opened: Great success of the new troupe
in Lohengrin.. Triumph of Nine. Stella
Brazil in the role of Ortrude. She had
several recalls
LIE Monde Artistic Paris
The warm and generous voice, the dra-
matte sentiment, in short the real talent of
Nine Stella Brazil succeeded in making
sympathetic the distasteful character of
Ortrude. We could not pay a greater
compliment to the charming Nine Brazil,
pupil of Maestro Sbrigia.
Les Echos de Nice.
Splendid representation of Hamlet last
Saturday at the opera. Nine. Stella Brazil
is most decidedly an excellent singer, whose
warm and vibrant voice charms and thrills
one. The role of the Queen, acted with
sentiment, will rest one of the best roles of
this graceful artistic.
lie Phare du Littoral
Nine. Brazil, who was already highly APP
preciated IN Lohengrin, had, in the role of
The Queen in Hamlet another occasion to
show us her talent as a singer and as an
actress. She has beautiful vibrant voice,
and knows how to express passion or gen
tleness as the case may require. She had
great success.
La Colonie EtrangGre
1t is certainly impossible for our opera
to have such splendid scenery or such per
| lection in the orchestra and chorus as at
| Bayreuth, but the soloists, especially Mr..
Bucognani (Lohengrin), and Nine. Brazil
| (Ortrude), are equal to those at Bayreulh
AS for Nine. Brazzl she is superb in her
dramatic passages, and her beautiful voice,
which has a most agreeable timbre, well
| sustains the savage character of Ortrude,
that the artistic represents to perfection.
| We have never heard the duo of the second
act better sung in Nice, and we congratulate
Mines. Bossy and Brazil on their merited
success. After speaking of the soprano in
Hamlet, the same critic says: No less a
success was made by Nine. Brazil in the
role of the Queen, in which she was able
to show all her qualities as a singer and as
an actress. Here is a Queen who takes
hold of one by the power of her beautiful
contralto voice, by the nobility of her bear
ing, and by her royal costumes. This ex-
cellent artistic reused the public in the great
duet with Hamlet, giving one the shivers
by her admirable spirit and enthusiasm in
her dramatic passages. The public appre-
ciated by the warmest applause and by re-
peated recalls the talent of Nine. Brazil.
She contributed in a great degree to the
success of Hamlet.
The Swiss and Nice Times
Nine. Brazil was excellent as the nurse
Uta, and it may be said of her that there
is no small part for a great artistic. Nine.
Stella Brazil was rather youthful repre-
sentative of the Queen mother: but the
fault in this case is on the right side. In
other words, far better too young a queen
than one of those old rights one finds
only too frequently cast for the role on the
provincial operate stage Her perform
ance, however, was perfect. Nine. Brazil
has perhaps the most powerful voice of the
whole company, and possibly owing to her
Anglo-SaXon origin, every note is clearly
given. Even the recitatives, generally a
pitfall with artistes, are "musically'' rem
dered. Her great scene, with Hamlet, in
the third act, was given with much dram
attic force, and the American artistic re-
ceived a special call.