New-York tribune., 1896-11-15
THE OPERA SINGERS.
NEW VOICES AND OLD VOICES WITH
NEW STRAINS.
MAURICE BARRYMORE AS A STAR
AMONG THE NETWORK THEATRES.

MAURICE BARRYMORE AS sTAR-TIIE WEEK
AMONG THE NEw-YoRK THEATRES.
The New-York opera season OF this year looks, In
prospect. much like continuous performance
Just now indeed. II Is than continuous. Tor
the first and the second sections OF 1t overlap.
The season OF the New Imperial Opera Company al
the Academy Of Music will last for another week.
and the at the Metropolitan Opera House
will begin tomorrow night. When the regular
there Is over the house will be occupied by
Walter Damrosch for few weeks. and then the
Abbey. Schoefel sv Grau company will come back
for its usual sad farewell. before going to Covent
Garden to show the Londorers real opera OF the
sort that IL known in NewYork.
II fond memories stirred by the APP
pearance of an opera company headed by Colonel
Mapleson at the Academy. II will actually make
opera-goers feel dozen years younger to find the
Academy under Colonel Maplcson and the Met
ropoitan under Abbey Schoeffel & Grau running
in opposition. 1t Will be only for week. but that
will be enough for purposes OF "reminiscences, and
then the reg liar supporters OF the lyric drama can
settle down to the support and enjoyment OF the
regular season under tho regular conditions.
Those whose eyes and turned toward
the local operate stage do not need to be told
much about it Just now. The company OF the Met
ropo;an Opera House bull, n
lines and solid foundations when Abbey. Schoeffe
d Grau first assumed control OF 1t that changes
for tho sake OF changes have not been desired since
and It was always a comfort TO know that the
company OF next year to be nearly as
possible like the company Of this year SO the
most that IL has been necessary say about the
company from time to time not in the way of
telling its admirers about IT, but only Of remind
Ing them about II. Il Is pleasant. then, on the
eve OF another opera season. TO remind the fire.
auenters of the Metropolitan OF the last few years
that the company which will appear tomorrow
night and hereafter consists almost entirely of
singers who have already come 10 be regarded
belonging the Metropolitan.
Still. there few new, Nine Fea
Litvinne Is one who is new to the Metropolitan,
though not New-York She sang at the Acad-
erny OF Music once under the management OF
Colonel Mapleson who. has already been re-
marked IS there still. She then sang the parts OF
Ieonora in III Trovatore' and Donna Anna in Don
Giovanni" Since then she has made some Eu-
ropean reputation. having sung in ST. Petersburg.
Moscow. Brussels and elsewhere She is likely
to be heard here In some OF the parts that have
been sung by Nine. Nordica especially in Wag-
merriam parts. She is sster-in-law OF Edouard de
Reszkc.
Jacques Bars sang well In the company which
presented 'Hansel and Gretel" at Day's Theatre
las, season. He is a Frenchman. but has lived for
some time IN England. He has sung at Covent
Garden. lie ia new to the Metropolitan David
Bispham. an American. has also gained reDuta-
tCn at Covent Garden. Ho has sung in New YORK
before. though not in opera lie has been in Eng
land for a number OF years. and was for con-
siderable time in tho Carl Rosa opera Company.
There are hopes that Antonio Ceppi may turn
out an attractive tenor He is said to have form
and 4 voice big TamaSnos. II this Is true.
his voice will have to be good az well as big or it
will make trouble. Jules Gogny and Thomas Sa
lIgnac are also newcomers. and both tenors.
one TWO wanderers will return. Nine. Eames
IN after u absence Of A she has
learned to sing the parts OF Elsa in "Lohengrln'
and Elizabeth in ''Tarnhauscr." All the study OF
the women Of the company seems 20 tend toward
Wagner. and Nine Eames has been preparing her
sell further In the part Of Sleglinde. in DIE Wal
klre" But t. row seems altogether improbable
that that work will be performed. Jean de Reszke
does not want learn the part OF SieEmund. and
Edouard dc Reszke thinks that one Wotan Is enough
FOR one season. II tho drama should by any chance
be presented NJ Gogny would probably be the Sieg-
mund and IL Is more than likely that Nine. LIZ
vinne would be found singing Brunhildc.
lean Lassalle comes back too. and his return will
give new opportunities for what used 10 be called
tho ideal cast FOR Faust" The ideal cast for
Faust" used TO mean Jean and Edouard de Reszke.
Ias-ale and Nine Earnes Mnic. Melba The
opera will be given tomorrow evening In just this
yav and again on Saturday afternoon.
Nine Calve who did about all the things that
ver. done last promises herself this year
sellha In "L'Africains and FOR the rest the other
mem OF the company are depended on to provide
the novelties Bui Mime Calve was always an in
dustrou- and energetic sort Of person. and X would
no, be surprising II she were TO be found at work
on A new part In the middle OF the season. Nine.
Melba's new parts will be Branhlde in 'SIegfried"
and the Forest Bird. In the same work II has not
been usual for the same singer 20 undertake these
two parts but as Of them is only voice and
the other is only vision they seem well calculated
10 make up good part
lean de Reszke has learned 10 sing the part OF
secfried. In "slegfried." and his brother has ac-
oulred Wotan They will further add 70 their Amer
,,op renertories the parts in lie ca OF which they