The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-06-01

is a daughter of Maine although in
 reality born in Shanghai, where her father was practcing law. She stands 1 next to Mime. Nordca only because her | career has so far been too brief for
 her to accomplish so much as the other singer. But she intends to sing Brun- I hide in Die Walkuere'' next year, and l will later take the other Brunhildes
 and Isolde into her repertoire. ] She sang first at the opera in Paris ! in 1SS9 apearing as Juliet and later as l Colombo in "Ascanio," by Saint Saens, | who insisted that she should create the leading role. While at the Paris
 Opera she also sang at it's first per formance the title role in Nuxs opera, ''Zaire." She also sang Marguerite and had already made reputation when
 her two years contract was at an
 end. She declined to renew it, as she
 felt that her opportunities were limited
 at this theater, and she preferred to
 develop her qualities in some opera
 house not so bound to the traditions of
 French operatic art.
 In the following spring she accepted
 Sir Augustis Harris invitation to sing
 at Covent Garden. Maurice Grau, who
 was at that time engaging artists for
 his first season at the Metropolitan,
 met Mime. Flames in Paris and asked
 her to come to this city to sing in the
 next year. She accepted, but was first
 heard during the London season as FL
 sa. Marguerite, Mirelle, Desdemona
 and Juliet. She came to New York
 the next fall, and her career since that time has been a matter of common Knowledge to persons interested in op- cratic matters
 She has steadily enlarged her reper- toire, and has acquired among her Wagnerian roles in the original. Elsa Elizabeth Eva and Sieglinde. She will appear next season for the first time as Brunhlde in Die Wallkuere." Later she will be heard in the same roles in "Siegfried and "Goetterdaemme- | rung" As the climax of her Wagner | ian career she is to sing Isolde.
 Mme Flames has sung in Russia and | Spain( but her career since she left the | Paris Opera has been confined almost to New York and London. When she does not return to the Mime. Flames usually de- votes the year to rest and study.
 She has now come to be accepted as | one of the foremost sopranos of the day. Her repertoire bears its evidence of her ambition and musical gifts since she has learned during her twelve years on the stage, besides the roles al- ready mentioned, Aida, Donna Elvita, the Countess, Santuzza, Michaela, Mrs. Ford, Charlotte in "Werther," Yasod- nara in "The Light of Asia," by Isi- lore de Lara, and Ghisele in Franck's opera of the same name. Mime. Flames Is destined to take high place in the
 st of Americas great women sing CTS.
 Others not so we'll known as the brightest stars have also made names Or themselves and are upholding hon. 1rably here and in Europe their coun- rvs reputation for producing women singers of the first rank Among those 1nown here are Suzanne Adams, one Of he most highly esteemed light so- ,ranos of the day; Zelie de Lussan, who is admired in England, France Ind this country: Susan Strong, who las been asked to go to Hamburg and leHIld uO tdke d pLOlilliiciI piuSS III he two conspicuous opera houses; Minnie Tracey, who is now on her vayjto Europe and can take her choice , Stockholm and Nice next win- CT if she decides to remain there to ap- ,ear in opera; Edith Walker, for hree seasons first contralto at the Im- ,erial opera house in Vienna, and last bring one of the most successful sing rs in the Covent Garden company; !, 'ibyl Sanderson, who has not yet re- T fred from the operatic stage; Alma , lowell, who has just been engaged at .. he Royal Opera in Berlin; Thea Dorre, - yho is still singing Carmen through sermany; Emma Nevada who appears reuuently in Belgium and Italy.
 These names are enough to show ow much the services of the Ameri- an singer are in demand-New York un.