The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-07-12
Marlo-Dunham family will continue to
make their remarkable aerial flights.
NIAPLEsoN,s sTARs.
Something About the Operatic Troupe
That Will Appear in San Fran
cisco Next Winter.

to open at the Academy of Music on Mon
day, October 26, with "Aida," and will re-
main in New York for four weeks. After
that it will go to Boston and make the
grand tour
The colonel declares that he has heard
from four hundred to FIVE hundred singers
within the last six months, and having
survived the ordeal has picked out few
who he believes will startle American mu-
SIC lovers in the right sort of way. He
has two ''inds" whom he declares
to be only little less lower than
the angels, vocally considered. These are
Slgnor Ruggero Randacie, tenor,
who has been making a positively sensa-
uonal success for the past five years, he
says, In Bologna, Pisa and Rome, but who
mas Fever yet sung out OF Italy. Then
tnere is Nine. Bonnaplata- Bau, dramatic
soprano, the finest, says the veteran i'm
presario, ever heard in Italy. She has
Deen doing very unusual thing-namely,
singing star engagements in Milan and
Barcelona
But these are only two young people.
Among the more experienced members of
ms company is ''the greatest tenor
living" Il quote the discoverer of Nils
SOM. His name is De march,, and he is
at present singing in Buenos Ayres.
another great tenor who is to make
bis bow for the first time before an
american audience is Durot, now at st.
petersburg. He is Frenchman and an
original actor. 1t is somewhat difficult to
conceive how he can originate anything
fresh IN the majority of the tenor operate
roles; but all things are possible to a
frenchman, and especially TO a Maple
sonlan Frenchman.
Among the female voices Nine. Hercla
or hn liCf
most romantic story, quite up to the
Maplesonian standard. She was always
In quotation marks) discovered in Rou-
mania, playing the violin, by Car
men sylvia, the poetess queen of that
mountain race. That she is de-
scendent of noble family goes without say
ing, and realistic actress of great power,
resembling the great Duse in her methods.
The Queen-poetess had her properly tu-
tored, and she has now the widest roper
TORE OF any soprano in Europe, says Colo
mel Mapleson.
But the prima donna with whom the
colonel expects to catch the world" is
Nine. Josenne Huguet. This singer is
said to have a most remarkable range of
voice OF undoubted power and facility.
On one night she will sing Carmen" and
the next the Queen of Night in 1.-THE
Magic Flute" This may appear extra
ordinary, but it is vowed to be true.
Nine. Rene Vidal is a recruit from Paris
She stands fully six feet high, so it will be
well that all critics beware how they speak
OF her. She Is reputed to be the daughter
OF celebrated French general. and was
educated at Marseilles. She was found
and engaged by Gaillard to sing "Dalilah"
at the Paris Opera House, and she made
such success that her contract was ex-
tended for three years.
The principal barytone of the company
is DE Anna. This singer is the only mem
Der OF the company who has been heard in
this country, and the memory he left be-
hind was delightful-that OF q man who
can sing with the middle register power of
barytone, and yet can phrase with the
delightful grace and tender vocal quality
usually associated in the mind with the
voice of q tenor. Since his American tour
he has not sung out of Italy.
The conductors engaged by Colonel
Mapleson are Tuscanini, whom he con-
siders one of the best general operate
conductors in Italy. He it was who
arranged the Wagnerian repertoire for
Milan. The other conductor is Signor
Bimboni, who conducted during the
| colouePs last season in London. The dip
| lomatic military impresario says that a
better operate orchestra can be found
right here in New York than in any other
city in the world. He will therefore en-
| gage his musicians in New York. Prob
|
with the local musical union.
| Among the operas OF the repertoire be-
| sides the weil-known scores, will be two
| new ones by Leoncavallo, who will come
| himself to conduct them. The composer
| OF "Pagnaccf' has great desire to visit
this country and is said to speak the Eng
! lish language perfectly.
The other novelty which Colonel Maple.
son hopes to bring with him, if he can
| overcome certain difficulties raised in
London, is Andrea Chenier," by Gior-
DAM, which last season made a hit in
Paris. The principal part will be sung by
Hercla Darclee.
1t seems ever SO long ago since the
name of Maplesnn was one to con-
iure with in the operatic world, and
after the septuagenarian impresario
had written his memoirs and the
critics had said they were Every inter
| esting, but somewhat far-fetched," people
began to think that the white haired mil
itary-looking man who lived in London
| apartments near Northum berland avenue
| and had always some ''bonne historic" to
| relate had retired from the busy walks OF
operate life for good.
But they were mistaken. Though he
has lived beyond the term allotted by
the ancients and worried through
difficulties which his enemies sadly
said would surely Kill him, vet
|
to the front once more, with energies re.
newed and refreshed after his long rest
and like Tim Finnigan at his own wake
| gets up and loudly inquiries after the
fashion of that fine old Irish gentleman
bad luck to We all. did We think 1 was
| dead P"-New York Heratd.
Dramatic Brevities.
Richard Mansfield says he will ado
Hamlet to his repertoire next season.
The Empire Stock Company will be the
next attraction at the Macdonough Thea.
| ter, Oakland.
May Nanuary has secured the American
rights to Dampier's dramatization of Rider
Haggard's JESS"
And still more Mckinley music. Why
can't musicians agree in Mckinley left
( motif and have done with itf
The Baldwin,s bookings for the coming
season include plays in which Beerbohm
Tree and John Hare will appear.
The Fawley Company may possibly &c