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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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May, 1912, after an operation for appendicitis.She had been engaged to return to opera inAmerica in the season of 1913. She was sur-vived by several children. During the Grau regime at the MetropolitanOpera-House Madame Murio Celli secured anengagement for her pupil, Eleanor Broadfoot,who had just returned from her first operaticventure, a months tour of Mexico. MissBroadfoot was to appear in small roles, butduring the engagement she had an unexpectedopportunity to show what she could do withlarger parts. II Trovatore was to be givenin Philadelphia, with Madame Eames as Leo-nora. All the regular contraltos of the com-pany were either ill or overworked. MissBroadfoot was asked to sing, and was hurriedon from New York to Philadelphia. There wasno time for rehearsal, but she succeded so wellthat Mr. Grau complimented her. After two seasons with the MetropolitanCompany she went abroad to Italy, to try andwin a name. She married a young Cuban,Count de Cisneros, a journalist and artist, and
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Photograph by — matzene — Chicago ELEANORA DE CISNEROS AS ORTRUD IN LOHENGRIN The Manhattan Opera-House 147 descendant of a very old family. When shearrived in Italy she found that the Italianswere not ready to hear Eleanor Broadfoot, theAmerican from the Metropolitan Opera-House,without some financial consideration. Shetherefore had her cards printed Eleanora deCisneros, and was not only urged no more topay for her engagements, but secured a con-tract at Turin, where she made her debut asAmneris in Aida. In addition to her suc-cessful career in America, where she has ap-peared at all the leading opera-houses, she hastravelled in the antipodes, South America andin Europe, reaping many laurels. She is talland of great personal beauty, beside possessingan unusually fine contralto voice. She has sungat Bayreuth in the Wagner opera festival, tak-ing the part of Brunnhilde and Brangaene, buthas also made her mark in French and Italianopera. One of her favorite roles is that ofDelilah,

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