A Night at the Grand Opera House
San Francisco
Monday Evening">
|
Special Sale,
America Hurrah postcard sets of ten, $1.00 postage to U. S included. |
|
A Night at the Grand Opera House Marcella Sembrich (Lucia)
Mme. Sembrich's life history is a recital of burning ambitions, fierce early struggles with poverty, fate and opposition, and eventual successes in every portion of the globe. Lemberg, Austrian Poland, is her birthplace and Marcellaine Cohainski her original name. The latter she changed on entering a stage career. Her extraordinary beauty of voice was discovered by Julius Epstein, famous teacher at Vienna. The madame made her debut at Athens, in "I Puritani." Appearances then followed in every city of note, one triumph tramping the heels of another in bewildering succession. Engagement at the Metropolitan Opera House came through Abbey, Schoeffel and Grau. Of all the Sembrich roles, none gives finer opportunity for display of her exceptional abilities than "Lucia." |
