Word: materna
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...fifth of the series of Symphony Concerts will be given in Sanders Theatre tonight at 7.45. The programme is as follows: Symphony No. 1, C minor, Brahms; Aria from "Alceste," Gluck; Overture, "Euryanthe," Weber; Aria, "Ocean, Thou Mighty Monster," Weber; Overture, "1812," Tschaikowsky. Mrs. Amalia Materna will be soloist...
...Wagner programme of the New York festival concert, last evening, was a notable success. The great event of the evening was Frau Materna's rendering of the music of the Brunhilde role...
...Frau Materna, a Syrian by birth, will be the prima donna at the New York May festival...
...recitative and aria, "Abscheulicher," from Beethoven's only opera. We have, however, heard this aria sung with more feeling, and voices of better timbre, on the stage in Germany. Miss Wilde is said to be a fine actress, and to have been more popular once than even Materna. She must have had a fine voice when she was Prima Donna soprano at the Imperial Opera House of Vienna, but fine voices seldom last long. Her greatest merit now seems to be a distinct articulation, as we could easily follow her words, especially when she sang Liszt's version of Lorelei...