Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-22


MRS. SEMRRIcH is studying the role of Elsa
in "Lohengrin," with view TO perform !" "'
tho Berlin Opera shortly.
MEcusKER-Miss Mecusker, the soprano,
has signed with the Schubert male quarter, oi
Chicago, as soprano, for one year.
ARTHUR NIKIscH took his farewell Of Leip-
sic at a performance of "Fidelio." which occa.
sion was made memorable by expressions OF
universal regret at his departure.
THE twelfth year of the Cincinnati College
of Music began last Monday. The Symphony
Orchestra concerts, under the able baton of
Michael Brand, are already an assured success.
DURING the Gloucester music festival an
organ built in 1866 by Kenatus Harris, and re-
Gently restored by Willis. of London, will be
heard for the first time since its renovation
THE first concert of the Oratorio Society will
take place at Central Music Hall. Chicago, G..
katzenberger director. A good programme is
announced. The society is new and numbers
800 voices.
PROF. FRANZ KULLAK has announced
through Berlin papers that he will close his
well-known New Academy of Music -(Ton-
Kunst) established by his father, the late
Theod lore Kullak. The information caused
sensation in musical circles in Berlin.
CHEvALIER EDWARD ScovEL, the tenor Of
the Boston Ideal Company, is hard at work pre-
pairing to sing Lohengrin in English when the
season opens at Detroit He is in love with the
role. Campanini, who has heard the new Lohe'a-
grin singing in his apartments at Manhattan
Beach, predicts complete success.-NeU fork
Herald.
THE Brazilian composer, Carlos Comes,
author of "Guarany," Salvador Rosa" and
"Fosca," returned to his native country few
days ago and was received very cordially by
the population and the Imperial family. His
new opera, la Schiavo" (rhe Slave). is to be
brought out at Rio Janeiro on the 7th inst,
anniversary of the emancipation OF slaves In
Brazil by the decree of Emperor Pedro u.
THE Emma Juch Opera Company includes
the following principals: Sopranos, Miss Emma
Juch, Mrs. Bonic-Serano, Miss Selma Kronald,
and Miss Susie Leonhardt; contralto, Miss
Lizzie Macnicholl; tenors, Charles Hedmont,
Edwin Singer, Ferdinand Urban; baritones,
Alonzo E. Stoddard aud William Bolts; bassos,
Franz Vetta and 4. n. Knight. The season
opens at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia
on October q.
WE learn from Bayreuth that the Wagner
season has been great financial success, in ad-
ditlon to its artistic halo. Eighteen represent
ations made 100000 francs. The expenses
amount to about $4,000, leaving over that as
net profit. Materna and Betz, as usual, gave
their services and the Wagner family received
for authors right $4,000. Aside from this
sum the surplus goes to the fund for future
Wagnerian representations.-FfQdro.
EMMA RoMELDI, who has been engaged to
sing leading roles with the Boston Ideals, is a
Chicago girl, in which city she completed her
studies. When she applied some years ago, to
San Giovanni, at Milan, for further instruction,
he told her that she had no need of it, and that
her training. which she received entirely from
Sig E. de Campi, of Chicago "a classmate and
personal friend of San Giovauni), was all that
could be desired. He helped to form a suffi-
cient repertory, and in less than six months
thereafter she made her debut in Pavia, as the
Countess Of AnndLf, under the baton of the
composer. Signor Logheder. Ever since then
her career has been a continued success. Her
Norma is especially admired.