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Madam Jomelu M ME. JEANNE JOMELLI, the well-known and populär dramatic soprano, was born in Amsterdam, Holland, where she received her first training in music. Her love for the art was manifested at an early age, in fact, she was but five years old when systematic lessons on the pianoforte were begun. Until she was fifteen years old she received three lessons a week, and showed such talent and application that' were it not for the discovery that she was the fortunate possessor of a remarkable voice, she would have become a pianiste who could rank with the greatest performers on that instrument. How rapid was Mme. Jomelli’s progress in the vocal art may be learned from the fact that ere she passed her seventeenth birthday her debut, in the Amsterdam Theatre, had taken place. She sang in “ Romeo and Juliet,” under Van der Linden, and achieved a notable success. Her parents were averse to her becoming a Pro fessional singer, and they dissuaded her from carrying out her cherished plans. Shorfly afterward her father died and her mother was won over by the young prima donna. Mme. Jomelli began her Professional career in a most unusual way. About the time she was finishing her studies with Stockhausen, in Frankfort, she received a most flattering offer to go on a tour with a concert Company to Dutch India. This was the beginning of a trip which took her around the world. The tour included China and Japan. Finding herseif in Paris, she gladlv accepted Massenet’s offer to “ coach ” her in the opera free of -Charge. For several years Mme. Jomelli made frequent appearances in the capitals of Europe, singing for nobilitv and receiving unusual tokens of their regard. Her lovely voice and artistic singing everywhere captivated audiences and critics. Some of the unimpressionable music critics of the Old World, who rarely betray emotion or employ laudation, found themselves bereft of superlatives after writing about this newcomer from Holland, and they vied with one another in extolling her powers. Wherever she appeared history repeated itself, and thus was made a Deputation on which any prima donna might plume herseif.
