Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-09-06
MUSICAL NOTES

The dates have been decided upon
and contracts signed by Miss Mager s
course of four splendid concerts.
Madam Frances Aida will appear on
the night of October twenty-fourth;
Madam Schumann-Heink, November
fifth; Yvonne de Treville, January
sixteenth, and Charles w. Clark, Jan
uary twentythird
In answer to many questions regard
ing Madam. Frances Aida and her sue
cessful operatic career, the following
interesting notes have been compiled;
That what was true in the days of
Jennie Lind and of Patti is just as
true today is exemplified in the career
Of Frances Aida, whose rise to fame
has been meteoric, for less than
twenty years ago she was a child play
ing in far away Australia, for like an
other famous song, Aida comes from
the Antipodes While the future pri-
ma donna was in her teents she jounr-
1eyed to Europe to commence serious
itudy for the operatic stage. Three
strenuous years of study in Paris un-
Ter Madame Marchesi followed, and
hen in nineteen hundred and four she
was chosen by Massenet himself to
sing the title role in his opera Of
"Manon" at the Opera Comique.
So great was the singer's success
that she was Immediately engaged as
prima donna for the "Monnail, 4"
BRUSHES, where she remained for three
seasons. The Belgian critics were the
first to acclaim Frances Aida as one
of the few singers really born to great
ness, and their opinion has been JUS
titled over and over again.
After BRUSHES, followed a season at
Covent Garden, London, where she
again scored many successes, one of
the most notable being that Of "Gil-
da, in Rigoletta."
At the request Of Campanini, then
conductor at Covent Gardens, she
next visited Parma, Italy, the birth
place Of Verdi, to take part in the
Gala Performances there. A circum-
stance of fortunate augury, as since
then Madam Aida has become probab.
ly the most notable exponent Of "Des.
demona," having made the role of Yer
dis ill-fated heroine singularly her
own
After Parma, Madam Aida tnep
reached what is commonly regarded as
one of the topmost rungs Of a singer g
ladder to fame, being engaged as prima
donna Of LaScala, Milan, where she
created the role of "Louise" in Char.
pentier's opera Of that name
school girl Of few years before, was
firmly established as a European fav-
orite, and her name and fame having
travelled as far as South America that
southern temple Of music, she received
an offer to go to Buenos Ayres. South
America was far distant but so tempt.
ing were the terms offered, that Mad.
am Aida accepted and sang in the
Brazilian capital for season, winning
remarkable triumph. Immediately
on hre return to Paris, she was en-
gagged for the Grand 0pero, where she
sang for three years During this
engagement she was secured by the
Metropolitan Opera company, and her
New York debut, like her London one,
was made with Caruso, and in the
same opera, "Rigoletto." "
Since then Madam Aida has won
many successes In numerous roles, not
alone with the New York company, but
with the Boston, Chicago and Mont
real organizations. The diva's repert
ore includes all the noted operas Of
the Italian aud French schools, and
next season she will assay Wagneriar
opera, her first role being that Of
eva" in "Die Meistersinger'
The Aida voice is lyric sopram Of
quite exceptional beauty and timbre