Margery Maxwell: prima donna soprano

              Figure

M'ARGERY M'AXWELL Prima donna Soprano Chicago Grand Opera Company




Photo Copyright by Matzene, Chicago




REDPATH





MARGERY MAXWELL 
of
 The Chicago Grand Opera Co.



M
ISS MARGERY MAXWELL, the gifted young soprano who proved one of the favorites of the Chicago Grand Opera season in Chicago the past season and who went with the Chicago Grand Opera Company in its six weeks' engagement in New York and Boston, is to tour the Redpath Chautauquas this summer and will be available for a limited number of Lyceum dates the coming fall.  The securing of Miss Maxwell for this tour is another achievement for the Redpath Bureau, which is always quick to recognize and secure the leading musical artists.




M
ISS MAXWELL made her debut with the Chicago Opera Company this fall as Una Capraia, in 
Dinorah.
  This first appearance was a decided success and especially noteworthy as she was one of the six principals with Amelita Galli-Curci and Giacomo Rimini in the cast.  The following day in all Chicago papers the critics commended her work most highly.




Only twenty-two years of age, Miss Maxwell has well begun her career in grand opera while most young women are leaving college or just beginning to study for their future.  She attended college in Montana and after graduation there, two and a half years ago, began her vocal training with Francesco Daddi.  It was he who persuaded Campanini, director of the Chicago Opera Company, to hear her sing, after which Campanini at once engaged her for the Chicago Opera Association.




D
URING the Chicago opera season Miss Maxwell sang in 
Dinorah
 several times and also in 
Manon,
 
The Jewels of the Madonna,
 
Lakme,
 
Francesca di Rimini
 and 
Louise,
 each time delighting the audience with the unusual beauty and range of her lyric soprano voice.  Karleton Hackett wrote in the Evening Post following her second appearance in 
Dinorah
—
Miss Margery Maxwell again sang excellently, with a tone that is light but pure and true, and her duet with Miss Lazzari again had to be repeated.  Fresh young voices are pleasing to hear.




Maurice Rosenfeld in the Daily News said:  
Galli-Curci, Dua Rimini, Huberdeau, Lazzari and Maxwell all shared in the success of the evening.




The Musical Leader, of October 25, 1917 said:  
Miss Maxwell is a very young girl who possesses a lyric soprano voice of a quality and timbre seldom heard.  It is powerful, of extensive range, and she is endowed to a marked degree with dramatic temperament.






Galli-Curci Praises Miss Maxwell



D
IRECTOR CAMPANINI is greatly pleased with his 
find
 and Mme.  Galli-Curci is most enthusiastic in her praise of 
the Americaine Mees Maxwell's superb voice.




At the close of the Chicago season, no one was surprised to find Miss Maxwell among those chosen for the eastern tour of the Chicago Grand Opera Company.  The recognition given her in the East was no less than she received in her home city.  The Morning Telegraph used a large picture of her with an interesting feature story the morning after her first appearance and the Evening Mail, in a Saturday edition, published her photograph in a group with Geraldine Farrar, Ricardo Stracciari and Gordon Key.




Miss Maxwell is a pleasing, whole-hearted American girl.  All her spare minutes she spends in knitting and at present she says one of her great ambitions is to go to France and sing for the wounded soldiers.




Committees securing Miss Maxwell for Lyceum engagements will be fortunate indeed.  She will be accompanied by two assisting artists—a pianist and violinist.





Comments of the Press



Musical Leader:


Margery Maxwell's charming voice is greatly ad nired and she negotiated everything intrusted to her care extremely well.




Musical America:


Margery Maxwell's voice is of a particularly warm, colorful texture, and she was absolutely sure of herself.




Chicago Evening Post:


Margery Maxwell made a most favorable impression and the duet she sang with Mme.  Lazzari had to be repeated.




Chicago Journal:


Margery Maxwell displayed a fresh, ingratiating voice which has been trained to the point where she was entirely confident of herself and her music.




New York Morning Telegraph:


Margery Maxwell is a young lyric soprano who has reached her majority.  She made her metropolitan debut with the Chicago Opera Company in support of Galli-Curci at the Lexington Theatre last evening.




Musical Leader:


Miss Maxwell has won praise from both press and public that is little short of remarkable.  She has a lyric soprano voice of unusually beautiful timbre and of wide range.  It is a big voice and she has done all of her work in voice placing under Francesco Daddi.




Musical Courier:


Margery Maxwell has made good with the Chicago Opera Association in several roles, especially in 'Dinorah,' in which opera she made a distinct hit.




Fashion Art, Chicago:


Mme. Galli-Curci is most enthusiastic in her praise of 'the Americaine Mees Maxwell's superb voice.'




Chicago Daily News:


The principals, Galli-Curci, Dua Rimini, Huberdeau, Maxwell and Lazzari all shared in the success of the evening.




Janesville (Wis.) Daily Gazette:


The wonderful voice of Miss Maxwell, her artistic interpretation and her charming personality, made her an instant favorite with her audience.  From opening to closing each number seemed more exquisitely rendered than the last.  In response to repeated encores she responded by singing a gay little coon song.






Figure
Miss Maxwell as 
Una Capraia
 in 
Dinorah

Photo Copyright by Matzene, Chicago