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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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motional coloring of hertones have established her with the public inGermany. Munich knows her chiefly in theparts of the younger women of Wagnersoperas, — Elsa, Elizabeth, Senta, and Sieg-linde, and especially as a remarkable Leonorain Beethovens Fidelio. Morena, — tall, broad-shouldered, deep-chested, but not stout. Well formed and ofan ideal build for the Wagnerian heroic roles.Her features are classic in their regularity,—her dark hair, parted in the middle, waves sim-ply back from her forehead; her warm browneyes gaze out frankly from under level brows.Although much heralded, she came up to andsurpassed expectations, when she made her de-but in 1908. Thus she was pictured. Berta Morena was born at Mannheim of poorparents, and for years it seemed as if her talentswould not be known outside of her home world.Her introduction to the larger world of musiccame about through Franz von Lenbach, agreat painter, who admired her beauty, whenhe met her in Munich, and introduced her to
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Copyright by Mishkin Studio, New York BERTA MORENA The Metropolitan Opera-House 101 Ernest von Possart, the director of the RoyalOpera. Von Possart heard her sing, and aftera brief course of stndy she was engaged byhim and made her first appearance as Agathein i i Der Freyschutz. She was then only nine-teen years of age, and she revealed so muchpromise that she was hailed as a rising star.Her operatic career being now really begun,she appeared as Selika in L Africaine, ■Senta in The Flying Dutchman, Elizabethin Tannhauser, Santuzza in CavalleriaRusticana, Sieglinde in Die Walkure, andthe there Briinnhildes, and as Isolde in Tris-tan und Isolde. Soon after her arrival in America it was real-ized that she had made an impression upon thepublic. One critic wrote that she had made agreater impression than any German singersince Terninas time. In a sense, BertaMorena has been a pupil of Ternina, for whenshe went to Munich to succeed to many of theparts taken by Ternina, the elder singer w

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