The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-08-17
AFTER AMERICAN DOLLARS
Actors and Actresses Getting Ready to
Leave the Old World for the New.
Henry Abbey Coming witha Company and Two
New Operas-Rnssians Busy Killing Seals
Turks and Christians at War.
DRAMATIC AND MUSICAL

DRAMATIC AND MUSICAL
Attractions which Henry Abbey VIII Bring to
America-Echoes of the Bayreuth Festival
LONDON. Aug. 16-Arrangements are ma
turing for the annual exodus of the dra-
matte and musical world of this city to
America. Mr. Henry Z. Abbey's operatic
party will open In the Auditorium at CHI
cago in November for the season of five
weeks. After completing their engagements
in that city the party will proceed to New
York. The programme of the company
only includes performances In the two
cities mentioned. The novelties to be in
reduced by Mr.. Abbey during the tour of
his company will be the new Italian opera.
"Cavallieria Rusticana." by Mascagni, for
the production of which work the services
of Signor Valero have been specially en-
gagged. and Reyer's opera. entitled 'Sigurd
Simrock.n A firm of publishers in Berlin
has paid the sum of S20.00O for the copy
right of "Cavallieria Rustlcana." and Mr..
Aronson. the New York theatrical man
ager. has bought the American rights of
the opera for S17,500. 1t is announced
work at his theater In New York,
the Casino, 1t IA reported that MIR. Abbey
has tried. but without success. to secure
the services of Nine. NorGica and Mime.
Patti for an operatic tour In America. De-
spite all the managerial diplomacy DIS
played by Mr.. Abbey, Nine. Patti would
only promise to sign q contract with him
for a concert tour.
Mrs. Bernard Deere is now recuperating
at FolkstOne from the effects of her recent
illness. She has signed q contract for q
theatrical tour extending over thirty
weeks of the United States and Canada.
Mrs. Beere will begin her engagement on
Nov. IL next. Beside her usual repertoire
of plays she will appear in q new work
written specially for her.
Mr.. Willard, the ac~tor-manager, returns
to this city from his visit to Bayreuth full
of admiration for the performance of Wag-
ner's opera, "Parsifal," which was pro-
duoed at the Bayreuth festival on a scale
of great magnificence and splendor. Mr..
Willard will start for America on the 22d
inst. for q tour of the States. His itinerary
Francisco and other prominent American
cities. The plays which Mr.. Willard will
produce during his tour will include "The
Scarlet Letter" and Hamlet" He will
not present King Lear" Mr.. Wizards
wife, who has been sick for some time past.
is now reported to be much improved in
health, but is yet too weak from the effects
of her illness to accompany her husband to
the United States.
The artist Walter Crane. it is announced.
is making arrangements for taking his fam
ily on a long holiday trip to America in the
autumn. Mr.. Crane during his trip to the
United States will probably combine busi-
ness with pleasure by delivering o lecture
on ARTS and Crafts"
The dispute at Bayreuth between the
general Wagner Society and the festival
board of administration, which represents
the widow of Wagner in the business man.
agement of the w-Orld-renOwned Wagner
festivals at that place. has been settled.
The trouble was relative to the applying
of this society with sill the tickets desired
by the members. The action of the board
of administration in the matter of the dis
posal OF the tickets has been severely crit
icised. and the administration has been
characterized as q despotism, and it has
been intimated that it has been moved by
financial rather than artistic principles in
the matter IN question. The committee
having charge of the disposal of the tickets
has decided that at future Wagner festivals
at Bayreutb the members of the various
Wagner societies forming the general Wag-
ner Society will have the exclusive right to
purchase the tickets until May Is preceding
each festival, after which the tickets will
be offered for sale to the general public. 1t
is hoped that this decision. which has been
arrived at by the committee, will arrest the
dwindiing of the mem bership of the differ
ent Wagner societies. which seriously
threatened to bring ruin on the Bayreuth
propaganda. The demand for the tickets
for the Bayreuth festivals is simply enor-
nous, anu tnOS0 VINO WISH TO Witness inc
works of Wagner performed in the COM
poser's own home find it difficult and costly
TO obtain the coveted cards of admission.
With o view to compensate the disap-
pointed and aggrieved members of the
Wagner societies it is proposed to hold q
minor festival in 1892, and the next festival
has been fixed for 1898. when the "NIbe-
lungen" cycle will be performed.
NJ. Bertrand. the new director of the Paris
Opera, has secured the right TO produce for
the first time in France Wagner's operas,
THE Flying Dutchman.D and the "Meister-
singer"
Sir Charles Halle. the eminent pianist
and musical composer of this city, proposes
during the coming winter to revive Schu-
MAINS so-called prOfane Oratorio. Para
disc and the Peri" in Manchester and Lon
don. This well known work of the great
composer was first performed before an En-
glish audience in New York in the year 1874.
Another incident IN connection with the
entente at present existing between the
governments of France and Russia has lust
been made known. This latest exhibition
of the friendly feeling between the two
nations Is an invitation which has been
rendered by the Imperial Musical Society
OF ST. Petersburg to Massenet. the eminent
French composer. to conduct q series of
symphony concerts in the Russian capital
in January next. These performances will
be presented on a grand scale. aud IL IS
promised that brilliant audiences. consti-
tutIng tie cream of Russian political. busi-
ness and musical society, will be in attend
whom 1t is announced will grace the per-
fOrmances with their presence are the Gar
himself and his entire court
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