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Title: The grand opera singers of to-day : an account of the leading operatic stars who have sung during recent years, together with a sketch of the chief operatic enterprises
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Lahee, Henry Charles, 1856-1953
Subjects: Singers Opera
Publisher: Boston : L. C. Page
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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atedthe role of the Father in Louise. Later heappeared successfully as Golaud in Pelleaset Melisande. Dufranne has been regardedas the possessor of the best voice coming fromFrance since Pol Plangon. He is also a mostexcellent actor. In reviewing the third season of the Manhat-tan Opera-House, in Harpers Weekly, Mr.Lawrence Gilman wrote: * Mr. Oscar Hammer-stein continues in his favorite pastime of com-passing the impossible. He has just broughtto a successful conclusion his third season ofopera in New York. For the third time, thatis to say, he has confounded disinterested skep-tics and interested opponents by giving operato the manifest satisfaction of his public, with-out material support beyond that supplied byhimself, and in the face of an opposition of themost formidable character — an opposition towhich for three years it has been confidentlypredicted that he would succumb. This de-ponent is not informed as to whether Mr. Ham-merstein, by reason of these activities, is richer
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Photograph by — matzene — Chicago HECTOR DUFRANNE AS ATHANAEL IN THAIS The Manhattan Opera-House 207 or poorer, or whether his financial condition re-mains unaltered. The point of importance isthat he is, as Mr. James would say, still in thegame; • and that he has, on the whole, kept faithwith his public. He has given, during thetwenty weeks of the season just past, perform-ances of opera which have at least equalled ininterest and excellence those of the far moreresourceful institution which is his rival; andhe has, for the most part, made good his prom-ises and fulfilled the expectations which hearoused. The production of ■ Salome was brilliant,impressive, memorable — one of the most ef-fective that Mr. Hammerstein has accom-plished; the performances of i Tosca havenot, in certain respects, been equalled in NewYork; those of Othello and * Samson etDalila were both admirable. Certain other performances, of familiarworks, remain pleasurably in the memory byvirtue either of e

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