The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1916-06-23
A Musical
Wonder
By WALTER L BREWER

room at the opera house a young man |
entered and said: Il am ARTURO Sta
nelli. have made some success in /
Naples as a tenor and concluded to
spend season in America before pre-
senting myself in Berlin"
.Ah, indeedT replied the manager
"Signor Stanelli! I have heard of your
initial success Ia Naples Do you
come to us under contract or are you
freeY
81 am free. have not yet become |
sufficiently known to be sought after"
Stanelli, as yet scarcely twenty years |
old, sang for the manager. His voice |
was tenor, but none of his notes were
high, and some of his lower ones were |
almost down to baritone range. Hin
ton seemed not quite satisfied about |
something. Presently he said:
"All nay contracts for the seasons |
tenors are signed. II your voice was |
q baritone I could use you very readf- |
1y. AS 1t Is fear we cannot be Of use
to each other"
.Try me as a baritone said the |
other.
The manager smiled "Give me your |
address," he said Sometimes singers |
become irritable, and brain irritation |
usually results In throat irritation. ! |
may have occasion to suddenly put In
a substitute
A week later Signor Stanelli received !
a telephone message to call at the |
opera house at once. When he was
announced he was admitted readily, |
and Hinton told him that his baritone |
had quarreled with his cohtralto and
refused to sing with her. "The part
runs low" he added, 'only In one or
two places, and we can cut them out"
The new singer created sensation.
His voice, instead Of being high pitch
ed for baritone, was very low. Those
parts which the manager had suggest
ed cutting out were sung with vigor
Hinton was astonished
"How in the world did you ever get
such fiexibility into your voiceY he
asked Stanelli after the opera.
Stanelli looked confused and said he
didn't know.
z 1t was not long after this that Hin
ton was again I'm trouble; this time for
a tenor. His principal man In pre-
tended stabbing scene had really stuck
knife into a rival for the favor Of
not woman, but the public. He sent
for Stanelli and asked him IL he could
get his voice up to pitch that would
enable him to take the part. Stanelli
said that he had sung the part with
ont experiencing any trouble. He was
told to be on hand for 1t the same
evening.
He made as pronounced a success as
q tenor as he had as baritone. Only
a portion of the audience had heard
him In his other role. These We're
somewhat surprised. They did not
know what to think about man being
both tenor and baritone. The rest OF
the audience supposed that Stanelli
was regular tenor.
AS for Hinton, he could not believe
his own ears. He knew very well
that the human voice has not so wide
m range as appeared In this case, and
he believed that there was some I'M
position being practiced upon him. Ii
not, then Stanelli was simply such a
wonder as the world had never seen
before.
Hinton's company was in a constant
state OF warfare. One night when
StaneIli was singing baritone part In
an TrovatoreD d quarrel occurred be-
tween the tenor and the soprano-they
were singing lovers partsand the
lady slapped the tenor's face. He
vowed that he would not sing another
note with her, and the manager. could
not move him. Turning to Stanelli,
Hinton said:
aCan you finish the part for him 2
ST think I cam
"WeIl, If you can that win solve the
problem for this performance. ! can
easily supply your place In the role you
have been singing
Stanelli went to his dressing room to
change his costume, sending his valet
Luigi, for the dress now required
Luigi took it to him, and in due time
Stanelli came forth ROBBED for the trou
badour's part.
This success in singing two diferen
parts. requiring a tenor and baritone
voice, further puzzled Hinton. Aftel
the performance he called Stanelli int
his office and said to him:
"StaneIli. wish your voice was OF
two different bodies. I would like t
cast you for two parts In the SAM
opera"
saThat is not impossible" replies
Stanelli unconcernedly.
'Not impossible! What do yo7
mean2,
Name the parts and win be o.
hand in two bodies
Then the singer told his secret TO tn
manager. and one evening the teno
and baritone parts were taken by tw
men who were the image of each othel
They were Arturio and Giovanni Sta
nelli, twin brothers. But Luigi did nc
assist his master In his dressing ROOF
that evening. for he was GiovanI
Stanelli and had sung the BARTON
parts for his brother.
ARTURO and Giovanni Staneln wei
the rage among music lovers for I'll
balance OF the season and the mel
year made contracts which gave eac
one of them q fortune. They ha