Excerpt from 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 The plan adopted has been to follow the histories Of the various opera houses, taking each singer as he appeared in opera in America. This book is not intended to be used as a text book, or as a work of accurate history. Undoubtedly also there are some Singers who should be ment'ioned and have not been; but the writer has endeavored to get in all the greatest, and those Of the rising singers whose history is likely to be Of interest to the public. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.