Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-03-23
Arrangements Being Made For
Two Concerts at Hawaiian
Opera House

Felice Lyme, the noted prima donna
who has been called The American
successor OF AdeIina Patti" will soon
appear here in two concerts. Is
F. i. Grandy, advance agent for
Miss Lyme, is in Honolulu to arrange
for her appearances through Manager
w. D. Adams of the Hawaiian Opera
house. The tentative dates fixed are
April and April 10. =
The New York Times, on the day
after her first American triumph, says
OF Miss Lyme: -.s a.
1T would be hard to find a more
striking example of fame overnight
than that afforded by the career of
Felice Lyme To burst from obscurity
into the glory of London operate
triumph that has known no equal since
the days tof Jenny Lind and Adelina
Patti was the experience of this young
American girl, who now takes ae-
Hknowledged rank among the greatest
OF living prima .donnas q {.
Miss Lyme was born In Slater, Mo-,
and she spent her girlhood In Kansas
City. Although extremely musical,
not even her intimate friends suspect
ed her ambition when she went to
Paris in 1907, and pluckily set about
preparing herself for an operate ca
reer. She studied with Nine. Mathilde
Marchesi, who was quick to recognize
her exceptional talents, and later with
Monsieur d. Aubigne, yho placed, her
voice and brought II to the degree of
perfection which soon was to astonish
the world
1T was In 1911. that Miss Lyme.
quite uniiefaided, appeared In London
as Gilda 10 Rigoletto. How great was
her, triumph q, few excerpts from the
leading papers will show.
Miss Lyne,s advent. said the
standard, established the conviction
that star OF the first magnitude has
appeared in the. operate sky-a star
destined to shine with ever-increasing
brightness.
She had not been on the stage two
minutes said the Graphic. before the
audience had taken her to its bosom.
Young, slight. and giriish in iigure.
with q pretty face and movements full
of natural grace, there is an appealing
charm about her personality which the
most hardened opera-goer cannot re-
sist Her voice is delightful pure.
fresh and clear In quality, and soaring
up to fabulous heights with perfect
ease and fuency - -
Miss Lyme said the conservative
Times, must be congratulated upon
an extraordinary success. With a
voice beautifully pure and perfectly
even. she sang with simplicity and
natural grace that was Immediately
captivating
:. With q voice OF Melba-like quality,
and the skill In IT'S use of q Tetrazzini,
Is & to be wondered at that SATURDAYS
audience waxed enthusiastic to an en-
'tifely unusual degreeF exclaimed the
Feieefaph.
Miss Tyne followed this remark
able debut with bperatic triumphs
even more sensational.
THE London critics. far from pro-
claiming Gilda her greatest achieve
meIf, heaped stiH warmer praise upon
her Lucia, her Juliette, her Rosifa and
her Marguerite. Speaking Of the last
mentioned role, the Standard said:
No artist within the memory Of opera
goers has met so fully the require
ments of the part; while the Feie-
graph declared that her like as. a
Marguerite has not been seen upon
the English stage.
referring to her Lucia, Vanity Fair
said There have been great coiora.
tura soprano; there still are great coll
crattifas and there is Eelice Lyme. I
place Felice Lyme. in a class by her
self, because she IS the first soprano
] have ever heard who. could make
Donizetti.s Lucia df Lammermoor
I've "A twentieth century Patti was
what the London Standard called her.
important concert ENGAGEMENTS
followed. notably four at Albert hall.
All Of which attracted huge audiences.