Great Women - Singers of My Life
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GREAT WOMEN-SINGERS OF MY TIME by HERMAN KLEIN.Originally published in 1931. Contents include: CONTENTS PAGE FOREWORD BY ERNEST NEWMAN i CHAPTER I. THE VICTORIAN PRIMA DONNA ... 9 II. THERESA TIETJENS, TRUE SUCCESSOR TO JENNY LlND . . . , . . .15 III. ADELINA PATTI : QUEEN OF SONG ** . .31 IV. PAULINE LUCCA AND HER RENOWNED RIVALS . 50 V. CHRISTINE NILSSON : THE SECOND SWEDISH NIGHTINGALE .66 VI. ILMA DI MURSKA, THE BRILLIANT BUT ECCENTRIC 80 VII, THE ENCHANTING ZELIA TREBELLI ... 89 VIII. EMMA ALBANI : CANADAS FAMOUS SONGSTRESS 102 IX. LILLIAN NORDICA: THE AMERICAN SOPRANO . 113 X. THREE LATE-VICTORIANS . . . . . .130 I, MARCBLLA SEMBRICH . . . .132 II. NELLIE MELBA 141 IIL EMMA CALVE 149 XL SOME CELEBRATED CONTRALTOS . . .156 L MARIETTA ALBONI . . . .156 IL JANET MONACH PATEY . . . .162 IIL SOFIA SCALCHI 167 IV. GIULIA RAVOGLI 171 V. ERNESTINE SCHUMANN-HEINK . .17? VI. ANTOINETTE STERLING . . , .183 VI CONTENTS CHAPTER jAOB XIL GREAT WAGNERIAN SOPRANOS . . .186 I. AMALIA MATERNA . . . . .190 II. MARIANNE BRANDT , . . - 194 III. ROSA SUCKER 199 IV. THERESE VOGL 205 V. HEDWIG REICHER-KINDERMANN . . 208 VI. THERJ& SE MALTEN . . . . .211 VII. LILLI LEHMANN . . . . .215 VIII, KATHARINA KLAFSKY .... 224 IX. MILKA TERNINA 230 INDEX 239 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS THERESA TBBTJENS FACING FACE ADELINA PATTI 32 PAULINE LUCCA . . . . . . - 50 CHRISTINE NILSSON 66 ZELIA TREBELLI ....... 90 EMMA ALBANI ....... 102 LILLIAN NORDICA 114 MARCELLA SEMBRICH . . . - . .132 EMMA CALVE ....... 150 SOFIA SCALCHI . . . . . .168 GIULIA RAVOGLI 17* ERNESTINE SCHUMANN-HEINE 178 ROSA SUCHER 200 HEDWIG REICHER-KINDERMANN . . - .208 LILLI LEHMANN ..,..-. 216 KATHARINA KLAFSKY . . 224. FOREWORD: MR KLEIN is of the opinion that on the whole the singers of to-day are not the equals of those of tibirty to seventy years ago. It is easy to turn that off with a smile and a quotation of laudator temporis acti ; but we would do well to reflect that Mr Klein has more right to his opinion than we have t
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