AS MINNIE
IN “THE GIRL OF THE GOLDEN WEST”
Management: R. E. JOHNSTON,
1451 Broadway,
Editorial in “The Globe״
* * * All the more acute, therefore, is the pleasure that comes from hearing in these times a voice like Rosa Raisa’s. * * * But she does possess a VOICE LIKE UNTO NO OTHER that we hear to-day—a VOICE OF LIQUID GOLD, uttered with a PRODIGAL and FULL-THROATED EASE. She has been schooled as a singer in the great Italian bel canto, and when disposed she ILLUSTRATES THAT ENTRANCING ART BRILLIANTLY. Moreover, she has TEMPERAMENT and BRAINS, and her EFFECTIVE SINGING IS NOT LIMITED to any one kind of part or style of music.
But the listener has a right to his preference. Mme. RAISA is a SINGER SO ABSOLUTELY OUT OF THE COMMON RUN that it would be a great satisfaction to hear her only in parts that give such singing play. As Norma, as Aida, as Desdemona, she has PROVED here the SUPERLATIVE VALUE OF HER VOICE AND ART. One LONGS TO HEAR HER AGAIN in those roles, and in some of the florid operas of the Italian repertory of the palmy days that are neglected now because nobody dares to sing them, “Semirande,” for example, or “Lucrezia Borgia.” * * * The kind of ABILITY MME. RAISA POSSESSES IS SO PRECIOUS that one hates ever to find ITS TREASURES expended on the operas that many another singer of half her ability can compass, if not so well, at least well enough for all general purposes.