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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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ederick Roberti, and Carlo Sebastiani. Shemade her debut at Naples in the San CarloOpera-House in Wagners Dusk of the Gods, *and afterwards appeared as Aida, Santuzza,and in Mefistofele. In the winter of 1909-1910 she was engaged by Ricordi and sang lead-ing roles in La Wally, l Manon, i Aida,i i Irig> „ a Tosca,J Madame Butterfly,J Herodiade ,J and other operas, in the chiefopera-houses of Italy. In the fall of 1910 she joined the ChicagoOpera Company and was the first in that city totake the part of Minnie in Puccinis Girl ofthe Golden West. Her first appearance inBoston was in the same role on February 24,1911. She also created the part of Susanne inWolf -Ferraris Secret of Susanne at theMetropolitan Opera-House in New York thesame season, and during 1911-1912 she createdthe part of Maliella in The Jewels of the Ma-donna, singing it with equal success in NewYork, Chicago, and Philadelphia. Miss Whites voice is a soprano of beautifulquality, she has a wonderfully quick intelli-
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Photograph by — matzene — Chicago CAROLINA WHITE AND SAMMARCO IN SECRET OF SUZANNE The Chicago-Philadelphia Company 427 gence, and has a repertoire of forty-five operasthat she can sing in French, Italian, Germanand English. In 1910 she married Paul Lon-gone, an orchestral conductor whom she met inNaples. Jeanne Korolowicz, the Polish dramatic so-prano of the Chicago-Philadelphia Company,was born in Warsaw. She received her musicaleducation at the conservatory in Lemberg, fromwhich she was graduated at the age of seven-teen. During her student days she profitedgreatly by a scholarship which was establishedby Marcella Sembrich, and in later years whenshe was prospering she herself established twoscholarships in the same conservatory, to helpneedy students. At her graduation she re-ceived a gold medal. She made her debut atthe Lemberg opera and was soon after calledto Warsaw where she remained for over fiveyears. She created the leading soprano rolein Paderewskis opera Manru. At the

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