Nightingale and the Rose - Mabel Garrison (1921)
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"Nightingale and the Rose"
Mabel Garrison
April 29, 1921
Victor 64978
Composer is Saint-Saëns
The singer was born Mabel Garrison Siemonn on April 24, 1886, in Baltimore, Maryland.
This American singer sang at the Metropolitan Opera from 1914 to 1921. Garrison had an impressive coloratura soprano voice.
She graduated from Western Maryland College (now McDaniel College) in 1903.
She went on to study singing at the Peabody Conservatory.
In 1908 she married a professor of harmony, George Siemonn.
She then studied further with Oscar Saenger and Herbert Witherspoon in New York.
She made her debut in 1912 with the Aborn Opera Company as Philine in Mignon.
She made her Metropolitan Opera debut on February 15, 1914 in a Sunday afternoon concert singing arias by Verdi and Mozart.
Her first role at the Met was Frasquita in Bizet's Carmen.
Her last Met performance was as Lucia in Lucia di Lammermoor on January 22, 1921.
In 1921, Garrison made guest appearances at the Berlin State Opera in Hamburg and at the Cologne Opera.
Later that year, she made a world concert tour.
She was a member of the Chicago Civic Opera during the 1925-26 season.
She was a teacher at Smith College after 1933.
She died in New York City on August 20, 1963.
Mabel Garrison
April 29, 1921
Victor 64978
Composer is Saint-Saëns
The singer was born Mabel Garrison Siemonn on April 24, 1886, in Baltimore, Maryland.
This American singer sang at the Metropolitan Opera from 1914 to 1921. Garrison had an impressive coloratura soprano voice.
She graduated from Western Maryland College (now McDaniel College) in 1903.
She went on to study singing at the Peabody Conservatory.
In 1908 she married a professor of harmony, George Siemonn.
She then studied further with Oscar Saenger and Herbert Witherspoon in New York.
She made her debut in 1912 with the Aborn Opera Company as Philine in Mignon.
She made her Metropolitan Opera debut on February 15, 1914 in a Sunday afternoon concert singing arias by Verdi and Mozart.
Her first role at the Met was Frasquita in Bizet's Carmen.
Her last Met performance was as Lucia in Lucia di Lammermoor on January 22, 1921.
In 1921, Garrison made guest appearances at the Berlin State Opera in Hamburg and at the Cologne Opera.
Later that year, she made a world concert tour.
She was a member of the Chicago Civic Opera during the 1925-26 season.
She was a teacher at Smith College after 1933.
She died in New York City on August 20, 1963.