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  • Until recently Mary Garden, who of all artists on the lyric stage, is the most nearly in touch with the singing of the future, has been treated as a charlatan and a fraud.

    The Merry-Go-Round Carl Van Vechten 1922

  • She becomes, indeed, so much a part of the character she assumes that the spectator finds great difficulty in dissociating her from that character, and I have found those who, having seen Mary Garden in only one part, were quite ready to generalize about her own personality from the impression they had received.

    The Merry-Go-Round Carl Van Vechten 1922

  • The fact of the matter is that when Mary Garden first came to New York only a few of us were ready to receive her at anywhere near her true worth.

    The Merry-Go-Round Carl Van Vechten 1922

  • It is not, I would insist, Mary Garden that has changed so much as we ourselves.

    The Merry-Go-Round Carl Van Vechten 1922

  • Mary Garden as Isolde, I think the public will thank me for having suggested it.

    The Merry-Go-Round Carl Van Vechten 1922

  • Mary Garden herself did not know, at the time she first sang

    The Merry-Go-Round Carl Van Vechten 1922

  • Its fame soon reached America, and the first performance was given in New York in 1907, with a notable cast of singing actors, among whom Mary Garden, as the heroine gave an unforgettable, poetic interpretation.

    The World's Great Men of Music Brower, Harriette 1922

  • Its fame soon reached America, and the first performance was given in New York in 1907, with a notable cast of singing actors, among whom Mary Garden, as the heroine gave an unforgettable, poetic interpretation.

    The World's Great Men of Music Story-Lives of Master Musicians Harriette Brower 1898

  • Mayor John "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald, the grandfather of President Kennedy, was one of the very few non-Brahmin shareholders in the Boston Opera Company--but nevertheless chastised the young company for the enthusiasm with which Mary Garden and baritone Vanni Marcoux threw themselves into the luridness of "Tosca."

    Boston.com Top Stories 2012

  • The legendary Mary Garden, the most formidable singing actress prior to Maria Callas, was a frequent headliner.

    Boston.com Top Stories 2012

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