The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-04-15
NINE. EVELYN sCoTNEY.

Nine. Scotney is the coloratura
prima donna soprano of the post
season tour organization.
She is considered the only real
rival to Tetrazzini, and many critics
OF note have gone so far as to as
set that she excels that great
songbird. Frederick Johns, the fam
Gus musical critic of the Boston
American, is one of these. He said,
Mime. Scotney's voice is more per-
feet than TetrazziniS; it is sweet
er, more human, less cold and quite
as brilliant 1t is a big voice-per-
feet from chest tones to the ringing
E in altissimo."
Selected by the great Nine. Mel
ba as the one prima donna sopra-
no Tilted to be her successor, she now
bids fair to exceed the estimate
placed upon her by Melba, and to
become instead the real successor of
Adelina Patti. Already the metro
polltan critics haze declared Nine.
Scotney the equal of Nine. Luisa
ECtrazzini, and some have stated
that her voice is better in certain
ways. True, Nine. Scotney is not
the finished artist that Nine. Tet-
razzini is, but she is still very
young both in age and in exper-
reached the stage where it is COM
parable to that of no other grand
opera singer, with the possible eX-
ception of Nine. Tetrazzini.
Nine. Scotney is an Australian
girl, and since being brought to this
country few years ago by Nine.
Media herself, has been called sthe
Australian nightingale. This title is
most appropriate for her voice runs
and trills are strikingly similar to
those of that bird, and as distinc-
tive to her singing as is the flute
ike quality which has helped to make
Mime. Tetrazzini famous.
Most cCloratura sopranos, includ-
ing Tetrazzini, feel it the greatest
possible accomplishment to susta--
d pure, ringing f in altissimo. Nine.
Scotney is able to easily negotiate
q full tone and a half higher, in
one number, the Bell Song from
'Lakme," singing + sharp in al
tIssImo seven times She sings it as
tone quite as pure and sweet. Scot
ney will be heard in the grand
opera Martha" as Lady Harriet
in which Patti won so much of her
fame. 1t Is possible that Scotney
VIII also sing the mad scene from
Lucia di Lammermoor" rendered as
a concert number.
MILE. NIYRNA SHARLOW.
Mile. Sharlow is the youngest
pilLld uOlIld soprano IN the WOFlu
and her classification is dramatic
AT the Boston Opera House she is
known as La Petite Sharlow'' and
the Baby" and is dearly loved by
everyone, not only because of her
personal charm and sweetness, but
because they see in her a great fu-
tuIe, and the probability that she
VIII be the first really great singer
TO graduate from the Boston Opera
House. During the post-season tour
Mile. Sharlow has sung Marguerite il
Faust where this opera has beer
presented. AS Martha" is to be
given through Vermont, the musica
director has arranged that she give
hCr solo numbers from the garden
scene, in costume, in addition to the
scene in the final act, which will bt
sung in concert form by Mile. Shar
low, as Marguerite, NJ. Alfredo Ram
ella as Faust,and either M. Mardone'
or M. White in the role of Mephisto.
Mile. Sharlow has not reached tn
age of twenty, and she is indebted
only to American teachers for he
success thus far. The press has ex
tended much favorable comment
hcr.