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English: Jeska Swartz

Identifier: grandoperasinger02lahe (find matches)
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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nding this handicap sheappeared with success in Turin and other cities,and enjoyed the distinction of creating thesoprano role in Goldmarks new opera, Win-termarchen, at the Regis Theatre, Turin, onwhich occasion Mr. Goldmark complimentedher highly and requested her to learn the partin German in order to sing it at Vienna. Although she is said to have received offersfrom numerous European houses, she signed acontract with Henry Russell and was one of theBoston Opera Company during its first season.She afterwards joined the Chicago Company. Margaret Banks, of Los Angeles, Cal., wentto Italy in 1907, and returned two years lateran accepted prima donna, having a three yearscontract with the Boston Opera Company,which would permit her also to sing at theMetropolitan Opera-House. Miss Bankss onlyteacher, until she went abroad, was her mother.In Italy she sang under the name of MargheritaNamara. She made her debut in Faust.She was afterwards engaged by the Schubertsto appear in comic opera.
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JESKA SWARTZ The Boston Opera-House 369 Another young soprano singer brought for-ward during the first season of the BostonOpera was Evelyn Parnell, a pupil of MadameMeysenheim of New York. She was known inBoston, her home city, as a church singer.After the Boston season she went abroad andhas been singing successfully in opera in Milan,Pavia, Venice, etc. Jeska Swartz was born in Albany, New York,and her voice attracted attention when she wasa mere child. Early in her teens she went toBoston and studied at the New England Con-servatory under Charles A. White. During herunder-graduate course at the Conservatory shewas engaged as soloist with the Boston FestivalOrchestra in a tour of the Eastern States. Shealso was contralto soloist at several churches,the latest being the Piedmont church inWorcester. Miss Swartz was one of the young singerstaken in to the Boston Opera Company at itsbeginning, and has remained with the companyever since. In 1911 she went to London andmade her debut at

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