The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1896-12-06
SINGERS WHO PLEASE EUROPE.
Many, Now Successful There, Were Fall
ures at the Metropolitan

Many, Now Successful There, Were Fall
ures at the Metropolitan.
Some of the singers formerly at the Metro
politan are distinguishing themselves, SEEM
ingly. in Europe, although they found no great
success in this country. Possibly the most
striking case is that Of Sibyl Sanderson. who
appears to have made at Milan q genuinely
successful series of appearances. She sang at
La Scala there. and received great critical
praise. and a more significant evidence Of her
success In the form OF q resngagement.
After she had appeared the number Of times
originally agreed upon, Miss Sanderson's en-
gaeement was heightened. She sans other
roles than Mdnon. and her success is attributed
mainly to that fact. A compatriot Of Miss
Sanderson was advising her one day last sum-
mer against the mistake Of appearing for the
first time in . new city as Monon, and when the
singer had recalled the occasions on which a
debut in this opera by Massanst had brought
her i'll luck. 1t seemed probable that there
might be some i'll luck associated with the part.
But the woman who was talking based her
advice on something moro substantial than bad
luck. She was n hard-headed clear-minded
American. and her explanation of the case was
sound enough.
"Most singers always have some s%upersti-
TONS" she said, about appearing in certain
roles, and I'll admit that I'm not without 1t
myself. although in Miss Sanderson's case there
are better reasons for advising her against
making her first appeal for favor in q new city
as Mdnon. That was the role she sang when she
made an experimental debut at The Hague be-
fore she ever sang at the Opera Comique in
Paris. and II 10 the part that she sang most at
the outset OF her career. She SINCE Il now Just
as she did then. with all a beginners faults of
vocal training. l have felt the same necessity
tine speaker was an experienced singer, now
retlredl, and as l began to learn more about the
with the light l had gotten from later practice
and experience. Nobody who heard Miss San.
the extent of her voice. In Romeo ct Juli-
etc. That's and Faust she could fill the
great auditorium Of the Opera p (. in PaTis; whereas
voice indeed. She barely fills the Opera Com
ique. That is because she sings, HanDn just as
she did as a beginner. while In the parts learned
later she knows how to use her voice in = way
to bring out all there Is of It,
If she had made her debut IN Now York In
some other part than .Manon, her success might
have been greater. But she was an III woman
worse. IL was only tho fear that he might
refuse to allow her to come over that prevented
her from consulting a physician. She was on
was In the United States"
Whatever the causes may have been that led
to Miss Sanderson's failure here. she 10 still
successful throughout Europe. Her appear
ances this winter wall be made in Vienna, War
gagement she returned to Paris for a short
course OF study.
kuaSlA 10 the happy hunting ground OF many
singers who have been heard at the Metro
politan. Ernesto TamaRno Is there again this
year, singing his usual repertoire and attract
Ing o degree of friendly attention which he
never enjoyed here. Victor Maurel is going to
st. Petersburg after the performance OF Don
Giovanni" for which he is engaged now at the
Opera Comique in Paris. ,Sigrid Arnoldson is
already there. and Is about TO appear In
tho audiences that remember the thin lit
tie voice she possessed when in this country.
IN taxa IN NaUnAr nnVRr han 81 mora
striking Illustration than In the case Of this
little woman, Marcelia sembIich, who has
another OF the sopranos In 81, Petersburg. where
shs is >, h az Y p popo,n Marie Van z z Sn:
divided her time of late between Russia and
the Riviera towns. but has reappeared with
after an absence of more than ten years. She
IL under contract for a series of appearances
there. and Will create the role Of the heroine IN
lish provinces with the Carl Rosa opera com:
pang. and singing In English La vivandiere,'"
ment." She is not likely TO return to this coun-
niied character of the Carl Rosa opera com
pany singing opera In English. Another singer
who failed to take any prominent place among
his associates here is SignOr de Lucia, who sang
three years ago at the METROPOLITAN. Here he
made an impression only as the hero OF Pag;
other operas were not highly successful. But he,
too, has Jared well in Russia. He has returned
theTo tule behsou' anu bucn Is tho uetnbnu lOr
his services that he told Maurice Grau he would
never return to this country for a SALARY smaller
than 81 200 q night.
Il am not, the same sort of a singer that |
used TO be-" he said to Maurice GTau, who
doubtless hoped, for every reason. that the
boast might be rue. 81 have now Joined the
Tlars HINT NJ " ho ann n,Eht men, .pomso at
Juliette" at the Metropolitan last year, returned
to Paris and resumed her studies there. She is
about To sing In the LatnoureuI concerts. Elise
kutscherTa, who sang here with Walter Dam
rosch and WAS then engaged for tine Opera in
Paris, was last singing AZ Brussels. Her Paris
experience was unfortunate, and il is now said
that che hss not found great favor at the The
atre DC q Monna!e' Marie Brema Is to appear
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