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MUSICAL COURIER
January 26, 1922
“Maria Ivogun Is Sensation as Rosina.”
The young Hungarian prima-donna of the Munich opera made a sensation, the like of which one would have to go back to Galli-Curci’s debut to find. Her first interpolation in the Lesson Scene (the Strauss “Wiener Wald Valse”) stopped the performance for seventy seconds, the Dell’ Acqua Vilanelle would have stopped it for 700 had not an encore, the Rossini Tarantella, been added. Ivogun’s triumph was complete. Her voice is smoothness itself, of very sweet and lovely quality, and of extraordinary range. She sang at all points with infinite charm, with utmost lyric taste. Her coloratura is as agile, as deft and accurate as any I remember; her trills, her scales, her staccati—all her embellishments were perfection in pitch and in rounded finish. Her high head notes, like tiny, pure white pearls, she threw off with admirable ease.—Paul Bloom-field-Zeisler, Chicago Herald-Examiner.
“Maria Ivogun Charms in Barber of Seville Debut.”
Maria Ivogun, the Hungarian coloratura soprano, made her American debut in “The Barber of Seville,” Rossini’s ever welcome opera—and immediately won her audience by her personal charm, by her artistic efforts and by her evident ease on the stage. Mme. Ivogun is a petite, comely young woman, who has an easy grace, a humorous twinkle in her eye and a manner which is captivating. Her voice is a very high and clear soprano, trained in the art of florid singing, clear and bell-like in the upper register. The wealth of vocal tricks she possesses and brings forth is quite exceptional. Staccati, rapid scales, trills, and roulades are reeled off with perfect facility and remarkable clarity, and high tones come forth with a timbre as though they were struck on a bell.—Maurice Rosenfeld, in the Chicago Daily News.
A voice of splendid proportions.—Chicago Journal of Commerce.
Won an immediate success with the public, so great, that for the second time this season the “no-encore” rule had to be broken in the lesson scene. Her voice is of lovely quality and range, which mounts to the very summit of gamut with ease. She made a winsome picture and played the role with charm.—Ivarleton Hackett, in the Chicago Evening Post.
MANAGERS FOR MME. IVOGUN:
WOLFSOHN MUSICAL BUREAU -	-	-	8 East 34th Street, New York