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Suzanne Adams / FAUST (Gounod) Ah! Je ris, de me voi si belle "Jewel Song" / Recorded: 1902 (G&T)
SUZANNE ADAMS (1872-1953) studied in Paris with Mathilde Marchesi and Bouhy, making her debut in 1895 as Juliette at the Opera, against the will of Mme. Marchesi, who felt her voice was not yet properly placed. After great success in Paris she made brilliant guest appearances at Covent Garden (1898), singing there regularly until 1906. She sang at the Metropolitan Opera from 1898 to 1903.
Of her early Met appearances music critic Philip Hale wrote: "It was a pleasure to see a Marguerite who was so youthful; and the virginal attitude was unmistakably not a deliberate and laborious assumption. The impression was preserved in the Garden scene, where many Marguerites wonder too anxiously why the fine gentleman is so slow in coming. She sang with easy simplicity and the girlish charm suited the part." And the venerable critic Henry Krehbiel wrote of her "as one of the latest illustrations for America's capacity for producing lovely voices." Her career in opera ended following the death of husband, composer and cellist Leo Stern. Although appearing briefly in variety, Adams, so the story goes, opened an exclusive laundry in London, though recent research indicates this may be incorrect, a confusion with contemporary American soprano Susan Strong, who did run a deluxe laundry in the British capital.
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Suzanne Adams / FAUST (Gounod) Ah! Je ris, de me voi si belle "Jewel Song" / Recorded: 1902 (G&T)
SUZANNE ADAMS (1872-1953) studied in Paris with Mathilde Marchesi and Bouhy, making her debut in 1895 as Juliette at the Opera, against the will of Mme. Marchesi, who felt her voice was not yet properly placed. After great success in Paris she made brilliant guest appearances at Covent Garden (1898), singing there regularly until 1906. She sang at the Metropolitan Opera from 1898 to 1903.
Of her early Met appearances music critic Philip Hale wrote: "It was a pleasure to see a Marguerite who was so youthful; and the virginal attitude was unmistakably not a deliberate and laborious assumption. The impression was preserved in the Garden scene, where many Marguerites wonder too anxiously why the fine gentleman is so slow in coming. She sang with easy simplicity and the girlish charm suited the part." And the venerable critic Henry Krehbiel wrote of her "as one of the latest illustrations for America's capacity for producing lovely voices." Her career in opera ended following the death of husband, composer and cellist Leo Stern. Although appearing briefly in variety, Adams, so the story goes, opened an exclusive laundry in London, though recent research indicates this may be incorrect, a confusion with contemporary American soprano Susan Strong, who did run a deluxe laundry in the British capital.
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