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Show FROWN ON SINGERS MISTAKES. Audiences Are Quick to Resent Any Mispronunciation. No Englishman with daughters could do a rasher thing thati permit them lo tak. lessons fiom eminent protessorfc with a view of golnr on the stage The opera stage In England seal eel) exists. At Covent Garden a woman who can speak good Kngllsh can only get lu by force of social Influence, and abroad a foreigner lips very great dir flculty because she cannot spenf; or sing with a perfect accent. The for elgn lady or gentleman comes across beio and on oceasloa will cntiirc t ping in Kngllsh. und their mistake nring nothing moie than a smile K Hie faces of the audience. Rut let an Kngllsh singer go to Kranre of Herman Her-man and something totally dlfferem happens. In 1897 Tamagno sang at Monti Carlo hofoio an audience which wui mainly French. Ho mlspionounced 11 word, and a peal of deilslve laugbtei eoveied own his slentoilan notes. In Iliussels I hesnl nu American tenor laugheU lit because some of his vowels were not ipille pule -llrussols. whole tholr Kreneh Is the most villainous pa-nils pa-nils 1 lme ever heard. In Cermnii I have hoard both French and Kngllsh ai lists laughed at because their accent ac-cent was not absolutely coirect. Saturday Sat-urday ReIew. |
