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to a large audience, which "must have been well satisfied by what they heard... Her voice is a bright, clear, ringing soprano of very wide range–she touched F sharp in alt with exact truth of intonation and perfect sweetness–and she has trained it to an astonishing degree of flexibility."
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at Covent Garden, and there was some speculation that that diva was in fact L'Incognita. Mount also appeared at the
Hippodrome in programmes of similar content to that of the Alhambra, billed simply as "soprano soloist", and billed lower than two performing monkeys, despite her talent.
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September 1896 while Mount sang "Ave Maria". In July of the following year she was a student at the Howard Conservatoire of Music,
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Australia in July 1902, after " spent three years on the continent of Europe, and lived some time in New Zealand." In Germany she studied under Herr Odenwald and in France, with Madame Caut. While in New Zealand she performed
142:, conductor at the Alhambra Music Hall, at which she was singing arias from opera since March 1908. In this hall, she appeared on the same bills as marionettes and a musical dog. Her choice of arias mirrored the work at the time of
158:. She toured the Moss Empire circuit for two years and was by one critic found to be a "first class artist with a very pleasing and graceful stage presence". This latter detail was related in a letter of 1943 to
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