The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-10-10
~ IN EUROPE.
s~IeVsments or weiiIkpown slprerp-Novoities
In Italy This Whistler.

movements or Well-nknoWn CONGRATULATIONS
In Italy This Winter.
Some OF the singers well known In New York
arc Just now making the operate news OF Eu-
rope. Lilli Lehman has returned temporarily
to tie stage of the Royal Opera In Berlin, which
she lcft to como to this country and make the
reputation which placed her where she is to-day.
A revival of the e Nibelungen Ring is the occa-
sion Of Frau Lehmann's temperance, and she
is singing the Briinnhiides. Milka Ternina,
who sang here two years ago with Walter Dam
rosch. is to leave the Court Theatre at Munich
and take n place in tho ranks of Pollini's singers
at the Stadt Theatre In Hamburg. The salary
which will bo paid to her Is rumored to be asmuch
as $4,000 for a season of seven months, and this
would make her one of the best paid artists In
fermany. But nobody places n ytaith in the hg-
urcs. She has been receiving at Munich $4,000
a season. and in the present scarceness OF good
singers in Germany she is a good investment
at that price. There is no other young woman
on tho German operate stage who Is quite so
promising. Nine. Eames writes from Italy that
she has hcen busy there with the preparation Of
Sentd, which she expects to sing in Russia next
winter at the performances to be given by the
company which Jean de ResSke will head. 1t is
probable that she will also b." heard as SicOtinde,
a role which she prepared for the projected pro-
duction OF Walkuere' at the Metropolitan last
winter. Ernst Van Dyck has just sung at VII
emma for the first time the role Of SicDntund in
that opera.
The most notable of the novelties In Italy this
winter will be presented by Sonzogno at tho
Lyric Theatre in Milan during a season which
is TO continue from October until May. Wholly
new are the Fedora for which Giordano has
written the music. and AN o~peratic yer.
sion OF Dlutot's "L'Arlcsicnne.' by Marinco.
Other French works will I've the ~"Sspho' Of
Massenet, Saint.Saens's "Proserpina." and
Bruncau's "L'Attaouc du Moulin In order
that III" tooson may not he subjected to inter.
%ruption; .Lree separate co'npanics have been
engaged 10. carry through the programme
OF twenty.fopr operas and seven ballots.
"Wer IfsS"" and DSF'" "conpclin." F" Mfg a a D snsa
goes down from Paris 20 be one OF the
prima Tomas. Ono Of the recent novelties there
conceived the work while blind. The opera was
sung at the Rossini Theatre in Venice. ami it
was praised rather for the fancy and originality
OF the %librctto, The performance was attended
by y many TTeli.known musicians; and among
licvcd by the indulgent critics that the work
Will survive In an atmosphere less warmed with
enthusiasm thar that provided by the COM
poser's friends.
Mascagni rarely fails to provide some excite
ment every day, and after having let II become
written his life he came before the public with
something more domestic. He is now complain
ing that his enemies have not stopped at bring
ing his wife into the discussion OF his affairs.
Various stories are told OF her antecedents. Of
her unhappiness with Mascagni. and OF the
treatment she received from society in Pcsaro.
which Is said to have snubbed her. The COM
poser's friends have taken his side OF the quar-
rel. and write that Signora MascRgni is not only
very beautiful. but also hirhly cultivated and
- sought out by the best so'ietyin Italy, headed
by the Queen. who hns personally received her.
! The composers friends say further that Mas
cagni links only Of his wife and children: They
sometimes make him as ridiculous us his enc
mics try to. Lately they snIead the report that
he was TO receive from King Humhert one Of
the most important decorations in Italy. but it
ncve. came. and indeed there proved to have
Among the composers 10 b. represented next
winter in Berlin is Hcinrich Zoellner. the
i ni,S' H Of ob tae h Llrdef GGigsn S sScisStS, h in ns.d this ns
an episode in the life OF Henry ". of France. is
to be given at Berlin early in the season. 1t is a
" "Fa~st o"Eg and his hi TWO TWO o pers' a IA. Sedsn %S Snd
The Overthrow, are remembered, and few
MIR. Zoellncr has also write the lihretto. An
other new work. at the Berlin Opera will be
Gustav. Mailer is now settled in Director
Jahn's place in the Vienna Opera House, and
Richard Strauss is not TO leave Munich, so the
battles Of the conductors are at least tempo.
rnrily ended. The Mozart performances are 10
he repeated next En-DrIcr at the Royal Theatre
il Much. The Carlsruhe perfo. mances under
well known musicians from + rance have been
among the audiences. Rerlioz's LES Troy.
Herr Motifs revival OF the work. it
VIII this .yenr be sung Mt Cologne and
Munich. Vienna 10 honor Donizetti has revived
"Don pasquali." The Bcrgnmo festivities have
been almost q complete trsco. The performance
OF Lucia di Lammermcor' was Kissed, and at q
concert under Toscanini'S direction the audience
left the building in disgust. %riotonsly demanding
the return of the door money. l. is said that the
! serted that performances were deliberately dc.
4 laycd in order TO keep the strangers in Bergamo
to spend their money.