Show Singers Singer's Thrill of Career To Come Gome From Home Debut PARIS Aug 10 UP Suzanne RI-Suzanne Suzanne Fisher young W West t s-t t Virginia Virginia songbird songbird sOng sOng- song song- bird will realize a lifes life's ambi ambition on this winter when she steps on the stage of ot the New York Metropolitan n opera house to to sing for the home folks For Far five years Miss Fisher Fisher- who is a graduate of the Cincinnati Conservatory Conservatory Conservatory Con Con- of oC Music has been studying studying studying study study- ing in Germany and nd singing at the Berlin oper and and the Opera here Twice she sho has had bad American engagements once engagements once with the LI Little tle Theater Opera company at New York and once at the Wor Worcester Warcester Worcester War Wor- cester M Mass ss festival But Buther her coming debut at the Metropolitan Metropolitan Met Met- rop marks her first engagement engage engage- ment with ment-with with a big opera company at home and she is thrilled Round of Study Her European career has been one round of learning new roles and languages sometimes languages sometimes on short no no- tice tiec Miss Fisher brown eyed and chestnut h hatred haired Jred has been singing ever since as a little girl she used to run to the piano pound out a tune and sing at the top of ot her voice to keep from crying after alter she had been punished She was was born i in Flatwoods W. W Va m moved with her family to Button and at 7 began her hel piano piano- lessons there She says it ins itis Is thanks to her mother that she took them seriously for If it she sho had followed her own inclinations inclinations inclinations she would have haye spent more time on run sheep run rim than on se serious serious se- se rious application to the scale Gets Gels Down to Work But with her graduation from high school and her entrance In the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music where they made her begin again with the C major scale she got down to work in earnest Up to that time no one had given serious thought to her voice but a friend hearing her sing took her to toa toa toa a well known teacher for a tryout and her voice lessons began Her grad graduation concert was a song re re- re- re cital The Th following year she taught piano pian and voice at the Bristow Hardin Hardin Hardin Har- Har din Conservatory of Music In Norfolk Norfolk Norfolk Nor Nor- folk Va There another friend in insisted insisted insisted in- in she should go to New York for further study and helped her to obtain an audition at the Juilliard graduate an school school an opportunity which so awed her that she didn't even tell her family she was making the tho attempt Badly Frightened She says she was vas badly frightened frightened frightened fright fright- ened when she stood up to sing and df Y iY i J 4 j Suzanne Fisher petite West Virginia soprano is 15 coming back to America after five years on the stages of Berlin and Paris that the last phrase of her song I Protect me oh God certainly came from the heart She was awarded a three years years' fellowship Later the Juilliard school sent her heras heras heras as an exchange student to the Berlin fuer Musik She sailed for an eight months' months stay and re remained remained re- re e five years A concert produced an engagement with the Berlin She Sho be began began began be- be gan to study roles and languages so that she might be able to appear on a minutes minute's notice and says she has never never really had a summer Vacation vacation vacation va va- cation since |