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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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her at the Grand Opera in Paris and se-cured her for his company. She was not asuccess, though an attractive person with apleasing voice. Bernice Fisher is a native of Chicago. Shewas born in 1889 and after the usual grammarand high school education entered the North-western School of Music at Evanston, takingthe full course in voice, piano and theoreticalbranches, and being graduated at the age ofeighteen. The following two years were spentin Berlin where she studied with George Fer-guson. She returned to Chicago in 1910 andshortly afterwards sang for Mr. Russell, duringa visit of the Boston Company to Chicago. Shewas at once engaged as a member of the BostonCompany, and has had more than ordinary suc-cess as Micaela in Carmen, as Gretel in Hansel and Gretel, in Lakme, Travi-ata, and the two new American operas, TheSacrifice, and The Pipe of Desire. Shealso received great praise for her impersona-tion of the boy Yniold in the Boston perform-ances of Pelleas et Melisande, on which oc-
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BERNICE FISHER The Boston Opera-House 389 casion Philip Hale said of her: Miss Fishertook a part that might easily be made boresomeor ridiculous. She saved it and made it con-spicuous/J and H. T. Parker, of The Trans-cript, said: There has been no such humanYniold on our stage. Miss Fisher knew practically nothing of thestage when she became a member of the BostonCompany, yet in her second season she hadgained sufficient stage experience to take im-portant roles and elicit high praise from thedreaded fraternity of critics. Jose Mardones is a native of Fonetcha, Prov-ince of Alba, in Spain. He began his vocalstudies at the age of sixteen, with the organistof the Cathedral in Bribiesca, a neighboringtown, and when nineteen was engaged as firstbass of the Cathedral choir in Calancia. Fouryears later he went to Madrid and entered theConservatory of Music. In two years he se-cured an engagement with a Spanish operacompany and made a tour of South America,Spain and Portugal, returning to Ma

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