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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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ged himfor the English Company which he was thenmanaging at the Metropolitan Opera-House,and even paid a forfeit to the management ofthe opera at Marseilles, at which place White-hill had recently signed a contract. At theMetropolitan Opera-House he carried off highhonors. His voice, however, was too high forthe heavy bass roles, and he returned to Europefor further study, and being determined tosing in Germany he went to Frankfort andstudied under Julius Stockhausen. An engage-ment at Cologne soon followed, and the nextseason he joined the forces of the MetropolitanOpera-House under Casazza. Andreas de Segurola was born in Barcelona.His father died when he was but three yearsof age and his mother when he was six, so hewas brought up by his two uncles, one a canonin the church, the other a diplomat, and bythem he was intended for the diplomaticservice. He was, however, very anxious for a musicalcareer, and offended his uncles by his desires,for there had been no musical artists in the
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Photograph by — matzene — Chicago CLARENCE WHITEHILL AS WOT AN IN DIE WALKURE The Metropolitan Opera-House 325 family, and such a career was considered be-neath the family dignity. De Segurola accordingly studied law in Bar-celona, but in the hotel at which he was stayingthere was a famous singer, Hariclee Darclee,then at the height of her career, and a memberof the Liceo Theatre. He sang for her, and shegave him much encouragement, even askinghim to sing at her benefit concert with her.After this performance the manager of thetheatre asked him to join the company, whichhe did at a salary of fifteen hundred francs amonth. His debut was successful and the fol-lowing summer he went to South America un-der Cleofonte Campanini. He sang three sea-sons at Madrid and Lisbon, and filled engage-ments in Eome, Palermo, Naples, Parma, andin Argentine, and was for two years a memberof the San Carlo Company under Henry Bus-sell. Mr. De Segurola joined the MetropolitanCompany in 1909, and prove

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