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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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lessons with Gia-como Ginsburg, and worked with rare diligence.Three years later his teacher pronounced himequipped for opera and advised him to go toItaly for his debut. Lacking worldly goods, andnot familiar with other languages Olshanskynevertheless set out for Italy, and overcame allprofessional difficulties. He made his debut in Eigoletto at Monza, and engagements fromother towns were offered to him, but he de-cided to return to America and complete hisstudies. Presently Mr. Olshansky was invited to singat a musicale at the house of Mrs. B. Guinness,where his excellent diction, perfect phrasing,convincing rendition and his beautiful voice,deeply impressed the audience. Among themwas Mr. P. L. Cottenet, a director of the Metro-politan Opera-House, who at once arranged forOlshansky to sing before Toscanini. Mrs.Guinness, however, engaged him for the follow-ing season and sent him to Paris to studyFrench roles under Andre Caplet, one of theconductors of the Boston Opera-House. Thus,
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EDWARD LANKOW The Boston Opera-House 397 after a romantic career, Olshansky is a memberof an opera company. Massimiliano Kaplick, a baritone, joined theopera company when only twenty-two years ofage. He is a native of Berlin, son of a wealthymerchant, and at the age of nineteen became apupil of the Berlin Eoyal Conservatory, fromwhich he went to Italy. He made his debut asValentine in Faust at Porto Murisio in1910, and sang afterwards in Italy and Ger-many. On January 10, 1912, Vanni Marcoux, aFrench basso, made his American debut asGolaud in Pelleas et Melisande, and cre-ated a favorable impression. M. Marcouxwas born in Turin of French parents, and hisfather became a naturalized Italian citizen.Mr. Marcoux studied at first for the bar andpassed the necessary examinations for admis-sion. He had, however, received a very thor-ough musical training, studying the voice underCollino in Turin and Boyer in Paris, andhe decided to turn to singing as a profes-sion. Just as his father became

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