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...role. Other operas new to the repertoire and illustrative of Chicago's increased interest in German music will be Wagner's Die Meistersinger and Smetana's Bartered Bride. New sopranos are Lotte Lehmann, famed in Vienna; Emma Redell, a native of Baltimore trained in Europe; Maria Rajdl of Dresden. New Contraltos: Sonia Sharnova, a Chicagoan trained abroad; Jenny Tourel of Montreal. New tenors: Belgian Octave Dua already known in Chicago; Oscar Colcaire, naive of Lexington, Ky., onetime first violinist in the Cincinnati symphony; Paul Althouse, of Reading, Pa., for ten years with the Metropolitan; Frenchman Mario Laurence...
Looking to the coming season which opens Oct. 27, the report continued cheerily: Thirty-three singers have signed contracts. Mary McCormic, brought to stardom under Chicago's "Our Mary" Garden, will return. New artists will be Sopranos Lotte Lehmann, Maria Rajdl, Contralto Sonia Sharnova, Tenor Oscar Colcaire, Baritones Rudolph Bockelman, Eduard Habich, John Charles Thomas...
...Kipnis. Last week President Samuel Insull returned from Europe, announced that there would be still greater improvement next year. Wagner's Meistersinger and Smetana's Bartered Bride will be added to the repertoire. Four famed European artists have been engaged?Soprano Lotte Lehmann of the Vienna Staatsoper, Soprano Maria Rajdl (Dresden), Baritones Rudolf Bockelmann (Hamburg) and Eduard Habich (Berlin). A fifth newcomer will be Contralto Sonia Sharnova, a native Chicagoan who has toured for two seasons with the German Grand Opera Company...
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