Critical Response
- Eleonora Duse— "Her voice makes one dream and forget the realities of life."
- San Francisco Chronicle— She is chic and vivacious and filled with indefinable magnetism.
- NY World— At the present moment she has no rival in her field.
- NY Evening World— America's greatest lyrical soprano.
- Chicago Post— Miss Nielsen is thoroughly a great singer, and showed clearly that she has attained the high place she holds in the musical world through sheer merit.
- Musical Courier— It is difficult to imagine a more perfect Mimi than Miss Nielsen, who sings with a lovely lyric beauty of a voice that has not its counterpart anywhere.
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