“I have ideas about Zerlina. I shall not wear the usual velvet and spangles. My costume is of olive green cloth, very pretty, but not too expensive for a girl of that sort to wear. My hair hangs in two braids and my skin is a dark olive. Zerlina is an adorable part, and the music is so very lovely.”  

Miss Farrar, speaking to the New York Times in January 1908, chatters at length about her plans for the future, ending the interview with the simple vow, “. . .and then I go to Lilli Lehmann for more work.”