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Musical Courier 1907-10-02: Vol 55 Iss 14, 1907
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1INTERNATIONAL NOTES.
3Eugen Weller, composer and critic, died not long ago in Jena.
5Giulio Scalinger, an esteemed critic, died recently in Naples.
7A very good representation of "Faust" was recently given at the Sassari Opera, Italy.
9"Thais," by Massenet, opened the operatic fall stagione at the Teatro Grande, in Brescia.
11Arturo Vigna will be at the head of the Italian Opera to be inaugurated shortly in Warsaw.
13"Manon" (Massenet) was the opening performance of this year's opera season at Vittorio, Italy.
15The opera season at Acquapendente, Italy, opened recently under very fair auspices with an excellent production of "Norma."
17The committee of the Salzburg Mozarteum decided, at its last meeting, to acquire the park and villa (situated in one of the most beautiful streets of Salzburg) where the public summer concerts are given, and there to erect a Mozart House as an adjunct to the museum. The gardens cover an area of 4,300 square meters.
19The city of Tournai, France, decreed at a recent meeting for one of her streets the name Rue Massenet.
21Wilhelm Leipholz, pianist, and former pupil of Hans von Bülow, died recently in Fuersterbergen, Thuringia.
23"Mefistofele" was chosen as the first performance for the new season which opened recently at the Bergamo (Italy) Donizetti Theater.
25"L'Amica" (Mascagni) was recently heard at Carpi with success. The composer will conduct the next performance of this opera at Carpi.
27Rimsky-Korsakow recently finished a new opera, "Zololoï Piétouchok." The Imperial Opera of St. Petersburg will produce the work this coming winter.
29The Egypt Theatrical Society during the coming winter season will have an opera stagione, beginning January 16, at the Theater Abbas in Cairo, and terminating at the Alhambra Theater, March 24, 1908.
31The next autumnal stagione of Voghera will open at the Teatro Sociale about the middle of October. "Werther," "Carmen" and "Amico Fritz" (Mascagni) are among the first performances promised by the impresa.
33Lona Williams, a niece of Mr. Stein, one time president of the Boer Republic of Orange, appeared recently at the Opera of Leydenburg (Transvaal), where she made her debut with great success. Miss Williams, a contralto, is the first public songstress produced by the land of the Boers, with whom musical culture is not pronounced. She intends to finish her musical education in Paris and London, and hopes at a future day to become one of the shining stars of the European hemisphere.
35A festival concert was recently organized in honor of Th. Dubois by the administration of the Dieppe Casino. The affair was an occasion of triumph for the composer, under whose direction the concert took place.
37"Tosca" was recently given a first representation at the Aquila (Italy) Opera. Maria Prassino appeared in the title role, the tenor Ermanno Pozzuti as Cavaradossi, and the baritone Parvis as Scarpia. Moronzoni conducted the orchestra.
39"L'Erodiade" will be given next November at the Teatro Sociale, Theviso, Italy, with a cast of excellent artists. The orchestra, consisting of sixty-five musicians, will be
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