As a matter of fact it was Duprez who knew how to make the "Little Miolan," the delightful warbler, into the great singer with her important place on the French stage.
But this was accomplished at a price.

Madame Carvalho told me about it herself.

Her medium register was weak and Duprez undertook to substitute chest tones and develop clearness as much as possible.

"When I began to work," she said, "my mother was frightened.

One would have thought that a calf was being killed in the house." Ordinarily such a method would produce a harsh, shaky voice and all freshness would be lost.