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MARIE FALLS AT THE QIDA BROOKS HUNT*canandcityandMiss Ida Brooks Hunt, who sings the prima donna role of Miss Nightingale in Woodland, is an artist who has already gained many friends and admirers throughout the United States. She is one of Henry W. Savage's late finds, and her beauty and her voice havo combinedto bring her into prominence within afew months. Her father was an Amerl-banker, who went to South America established himself in business in the of Panama. He married a beautiful accomplished Spanish woman, whose birthplace was Barcelona, and Miss Hunt was their only child. Her early childhood was spent on the Isthmus, where her education was begun in convent school. Before she reached her teens her parents removed to the United States, and Miss Hunt was sent to St. Francis Xavier, Brooklyn, where her schooling was completed.Her mother was a fine musician, and the girl’s musical education wag begun when she was a young child and com tinued all her life. She herself says she cannot remember when she was not studying music. Her mother's first intention was to have her devote herself to piano work, but as she grew older and it became evident that she had an unusual i-oico the trend of her studies was turned to voice culture, but in the meantime she had become an accomplished pianist. When she was 14 years old she sang at a charity entertainment given in the church of Father Hickey, a widely known prelate of Brooklyn.Miss Hunt was engaged last spring by Mr. Savage to create the role of the Nightingale in Woodland. She had Just returned to New York after a two-year stay abroad and appeared with the company on the opening night at Boston, on which occasion her brilliant high soprano voice and her fine stage presence brought her Into immediate prominence. Miss Hunt’s appearance indicates unmistakably her Spanish origin.Asked recently what her immediate plans for the future wrere, Miss Hunt replied: Well, when my contract with Mr. Savage expires I am going to Paris to perfect mvself In French songs. I already sing in Italian and Spanish, the latter being the only language I knew when a child, but I have yet to master French singing. Do I intend to remain in the same work I am doing? Oh, no; I feel that 1 have just begun. After light opera comes opera comique and then grand opera.* I aspire to such roles as Leonora in ’II Trovatore,' Amino In *La Sonnambula’ and similar parts. I am scarcely physically heavy enough for theA l/lon »»
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Boston Sunday Post
Boston, Massachusetts, US
Sun, Apr 23, 1905
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