Ruby Cutter Savage
Ruby Cutter Savage | |
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| File:RubyCutterSavage1904MC.png Ruby Cutter Savage, from a 1904 publication | |
| Born | Ruby Clementine Cutter October 7, 1876 Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Died | July 9, 1949 (age 72) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Other names | Rena Saville, Ruby Cutter Willis |
| Occupation | Singer |
Ruby Clementine Cutter Savage Willis (October 7, 1876 – July 9, 1949) was an American soprano singer active in the early 20th century.
Early life and education
[edit | edit source]Cutter was born in Boston, the daughter of Fitch Henry Cutter and Mary Alvida Clark Cutter. She was a student of Arthur J. Hubbard in Boston,[1] and studied voice with W. Elliott Haslam in Paris.[2][3][4] In New York City, she studied German or French diction with Margaret Goetz.[5]
Career
[edit | edit source]Savage was a soprano soloist who sang with the Boston Opera Company.[3] and in a 1903 production of Orfeo ed Euridice in Angers.[6] She toured with the New York Philharmonic in 1904,[7] appearing in forty cities,[8] in concerts with tenor Dan Beddoe and conductor Walter Damrosch.[9] In 1905 she sang with the Savage Opera Company.[10] "She always makes a splendid impression. Her voice in quality and range is phenomenal," according to a profile in Musical Courier magazine in 1904, which also discussed her appearance ("a fine figure and a most pleasing facial expression") and her "artistic temperament".[4]
Savage sang in Montreal in 1906, including as a last-minute replacement soloist for Handel's Messiah.[11] She and tenor Theodore van Yorx gave a concert together at Boston's Jordan Hall in 1907.[12] She returned to the opera stage in 1909, appearing in La traviata and Faust at the German Opera House in Prague,[13] and appearing as Mimi in La bohème in Boston late that year.[14]
In 1913, Savage used the name "Rena Saville" when she was with the Zuro Opera Company.[15] In 1914 she played Josephine in a "mammoth" production of H.M.S. Pinafore at the Hippodrome, complete with "real water, real sailors".[16] In the 1920s, she was a church soloist in Florida.[17]
Personal life
[edit | edit source]Cutter married twice. She married fellow singer and voice coach Paul Savage in Italy in 1902; they divorced in 1915,[18] the year she married Pierre LaJard Willis in New Jersey. The Willises also divorced. She lived with her mother in Los Angeles in the 1930s and 1940s.[19] She died in 1949, in Los Angeles, at the age of 72.[20]
References
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- ^ Campbell, Mrs. Marriner. "What I Saw and Heard in the Vocal Studios of Paris" The Western Journal of Education (March 1904): 285.
- ^ a b "W. Elliott Haslam" Musical Canada 9(7)(November 1914): 165.
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- ^ "Ruby Cutter-Savage" New York Phil Digital Archives
- ^ Cohn, Harry B. "Musicusis Montrealisis" The Musical Courier 50(20)(May 17, 1905): 16.
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