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Musical Courier 1908-01-15: Vol 56 Iss 3, 1908
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1OPERAS NOTES.
3It is reported that Albert Reiss will soon sing the part of the Witch in "Hansel and Gretel" at the Metropolitan. The role usually has been done by Louise Homer, and was also given to Frieda Langendorff this season. Reiss made a name for himself by his character impersonation of Mime in "Siegfried." There is no reason why he should not make a success as the Witch in Humperdinck's opera, but, on the other hand, there seems no valid ground for giving the part to a tenor when the composer wrote it for a contralto.
5Tetrazzini will sing twice at the Manhattan this week, tonight, January 15, and at the Saturday matinee, January 18. The opera on both occasions is to be "Traviata."
7"Don Giovanni" will be revived at the Metropolitan on January 23. Mahler is the conductor, and the cast consists of Sembrich, Gadski, Eames, Scotti, Bonci and Chaliapine. Mahler, by the way, is an advocate of quick tempos, and he promises to make the performance of "Don Giovanni" last only two hours and forty-five minutes, where formerly it used to take three hours and a half at the Metropolitan.
9Puccini, who is an intimate friend of Conductor Campanini, of the Manhattan, cabled that gentleman and his wife a warm greeting from Italy for the new year.
11Pol Plançon, the baritone, sailed from Europe for New York last Wednesday on the Kronprinzessin Cecilie. Berta Morena and Marta Lefler Burckard, Wagnerian singers, will sail from Hamburg on January 21. All three artists are to join the Metropolitan forces. Morena's debut will be made in "Fidelio," under Mahler's direction.
13The Metropolitan Opera tour, it is said, will be a short one this year, to extend no farther West than Chicago. Thus, the ban will be placed on St. Louis, Kansas City, Salt Lake City, San Francisco, etc. The cities selected for a stagione are Boston (one week), Baltimore, Washington (one performance each), Pittsburgh (three performances) and Chicago (one week).
15Nordica will sing in "La Gioconda" at the opening performance of the San Carlo Opera Company in Chicago on January 20. Altogether, she will make three appearances there that week.
17Campanari will sing the role of Masetto (his first appearance in it) at the "Don Giovanni" revival in the Metropolitan.
19Heinrich Knote sails from Boston for Genoa on February 1, and will sing in Munich after February 26. He will be succeeded at the Metropolitan Opera House by Carl Burrian and Alois Burgstaller.
21Henry Russell, manager of the San Carlo Opera Company, applied to Supreme Court Justice Davis last week for an injunction restraining Mr. Barocchi, a singer, from appearing at the Metropolitan Opera House. The injunction was denied.
23Geraldine Farrar replaced Cavalieri at the Metropolitan last week as Marguerite in "Mefistofele."
25Caruso is having a busy and a profitable seven days. On Monday morning he sang at the Bagby concert in the Waldorf-Astoria. On Monday night he appeared in "Traviata" at the Metropolitan, and on Tuesday night he was booked in Philadelphia in "Adriana Lecouvreur." Thursday he will be heard in "Tosca" at the Metropolitan and Friday in "Madam Butterfly." The tenor's total earnings for the seven days will be about $12,500—more than the salary of a Cabinet officer in Washington for an entire year.
27Geraldine Farrar will journey next week to Melrose, Mass., where she was born, to sing at a musicale to be given by one of her friends. This will be the first time the prima donna has appeared in her birthplace since she became a grand opera singer. At the age of five Miss Farrar made her operatic debut in Melrose, when she sang the "Una voce poco fa" from "The Barber of Seville."
29Mahler was a visitor at the Manhattan recently, to hear the second performance of "Louise."
31Caruso watched last Saturday afternoon's "Louise" performance from the wings at the Manhattan.
33Attorney Charles H. Sprague, counsel for Oscar Hammerstein, informed Judge Lowell last week in the United States Circuit Court at Boston that Henry Russell, manager of the San Carlo Opera Company, assured him that tenor Albani had been discharged from that company, and now it is probable that Hammerstein's complaint against Albani will be dropped.
35Among those invited to Nordica's musicale at Sherry's last Sunday evening were Mark Twain, Thomas A. Edison, Richard Watson Gilder, Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, Gustav Mahler, Dr. Muck, Madame Eames, Madame Homer, Madame Sembrich, Clyde Fitch, Sir Purdon Clarke, Brander Matthews, Victor Maurel, Florence Constantino and Vladimir de Pachmann.
37Berta Morena, the Munich Wagner singer, is not to join the Metropolitan Company after all this season. She has been stricken with appendicitis, and her doctor forbids her departure from Munich.
39Hammerstein says of his special Tetrazzini performances: "The capacity of the opera house means the sale of seats worth $11,500 at each performance, and if the house could hold five times as many, and we had asked three times the price, every ticket would have been sold. My total receipts so far for her appearance have been $57,500. This will give some idea of the popularity of the new star. Every one is anxious to hear her wonderful voice."
41Bassi, Didur, Crabbe, Daddi, Russ, Jomelli, Zeppilli, Koelling and Gerville-Reache were heard at the Manhattan concert last Sunday evening.
43Eames sang at a musicale given by Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt last Saturday evening.
45Tetrazzini and her sister, Madame Campanini, had a loving reunion at the pier when the former landed in New York last week. Thus endeth the daily newspaper "fake" of a feud between the sisters.
47The Metropolitan Opera.
49Wednesday's performance was "La Traviata," with Sembrich as Violetta, Caruso as Alfredo, Scotti as Giorgio, and the other parts filled by Girerd, Jacoby, Navarini, Dufriche, Bégué, Tecchi. "Tristan and Isolde" had a repetition on Thursday, with Fremstad, Homer, Knote, Van Rooy, Blass, etc. Mahler conducted. Friday brought "Mefistofele," with Farrar, Chaliapine, Martin, etc. The Saturday matinee was "Martha," with Sembrich, Homer, Bonci, Journet, Barocchi, etc. In the evening "Aida" had in its cast Lucas (Rhadames), Gadski, Kirkby-Lunn, Stracciari, Blass, etc. The Monday evening performance was "Traviata," with Sembrich, Jacoby, Girerd, Caruso, Scotti, Dufriche, etc.
51The Manhattan Opera.
53"Louis" was repeated on Wednesday evening, with only slight changes from the cast as published in THE MUSICAL COURIER last week, after the premiere. Trentini took the place of Morichini, and Gianoli-Galletti that of Reschiglian. "Aida" held the boards on Thursday evening. In the cast were Agostinelli, de Cisneros, Bassi, Ancona, and Arimondi. Friday's performance was "Don Giovanni," with Jomelli, Russ, Zeppilli, Didur, Cazauran, and Gilibert. Saturday afternoon saw a repetition of "Louise," with Garden, Dalmore, Gilibert, and Bressler-Gianoli in the chief roles, as usual. On Saturday evening, "Trovatore" was the opera, with Russ, De Cisneros, Zaccharia, Zenatello, Sammarco, Arimondi, Venturini. Monday's bill was "Louise."
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