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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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cribed as a somewhat unusualand distinctly charming little person. MissTeyte, whose name was originally Tate, is ofScotch-Irish descent, and went to Paris to studysinging under Jean de Eeszke. It was in Paristhat her name was changed, in order that theParisians might give it the proper pronuncia-tion. After five years study with de EeszkeMiss Teyte appeared in Paris as Melisande.Comparisons between Miss Teyte and MissGarden naturally followed. One account runsthus, — * Whereas Maggie Teyte seems ayounger Melisande because she is small andslight with a voice that is unquestionably morepleasing, being a dramatic soprano of surpri-sing warmth and carrying power consideringher physical limitation, Miss Gardens way ofdressing is, to most people, more successful.Miss Teytes interpretation is simpler, but be-cause it is less dramatic has neither the gracenor mystic allure of Miss Gardens. In short,while Miss Teyte is an altogether lovely Meli-sande with a really charming voice, she is not,
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Photograph by — matzene — Chicago MAGGIE TEYTE AS CINDERELLA IN CENDRILLON The Chicago-Philadelphia Company 433 and it is doubtful if she ever will become, theintelligent and convincing artist that MaryGarden is and has been from the beginning. In America Miss Teyte did not appear asMelisande, a part which Miss Garden has jeal-ously guarded as her own,but she made a charm-ing Cinderella, and has been pleasing in allher roles. She is considered an excellent inter-preter of Debussy and other modern Frenchcomposers. She made her debut at Monte Carloin 1906, when seventeen years of age. Lillian Grenville, who was one of the sopranosengaged by Dippel for the first season of theChicago-Philadelphia Opera Company, was bornin Canada, and received her early training inthe Convent of the Sacred Heart in Montreal.Her voice being considered worth cultivatingshe. went to New York and took lessons, at thesame time holding a choir position. Then shewent abroad to study, and made her debut atNice

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