The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-24

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| Der can always be depended Upon to please.
remember ore of my old and best hits was
entitled The Ragged Coat 1t told, you
Deneath the rags"
The fact that three leading artists of the
Damrosch & Ellis Opera Company have
won distinguished honors in different fields
! within few weeks speaks volumes for the
fine quality of the organization which will
| soon open its season in Philadelphia Nine
Melba, by her faultless vocalization at the
Bergamo festival, fired the hearts of the
lmpulslVe but iGitical Italians, and was
greeted with furious enthusiasm. She was
presented with a gold medal and two i'm
presarios of important Italian opera houses
tried to induce her to sign a contract for a
long season in Italy. Herr Kraus has been
singing in Berlin, where he made so fine an
impression that the press were impelled 10
make unpleasant comments on the saga
city OF American managers in robbing Ber-
lin of the great tenor Nine. Gadski. who
has already demonstrated her right to rank
among the great sopranos of the operate
stage added to her laurels by her singing
at the Worcester festival in Parker's ''Hora
Novissima," which revealed a new side to
the young sopranos talents.
They are toiling terribly at the Opera in
Paris with their preparations for the per-
Torrance of Wagner's ''Mastersingers.
Alvarez. Renaud, Vaguet, Crosse, Grand
jean, Delmar and Breval are to have the
chief parts and Taffenal is to conduct. The
designs for the scenery have been made on
the ground in Nuremburg, and there has
been much study of the admirable repre-
Sentatfon at the opera house in Munich.
The subordinate singers and the chorus are
undergoing very dilgent training, and, APP
parently, no effort will be spared to make
the most of the music-drama The insuper-
able obstacle though the French gracefully
pass around 1t, is the Gallo temperament.
erS and the apprentices of Nuremberg, and
there is not likely to be much ''gemuth-
lichkeit' in the performances at Paris.
A very curious company of italian opera
singers now giving performances in Vienna
is doing very well, artstically and finan-
cially. 1t is composed of twenty-four boys,
who were given permission to sing in pub
lie outside of their own country in order to
exhibit the purely Italian custom of teach
ing opera singing from childhood. These
boys are we'll trained, and some of the
voices are particularly beautiful The star
Of the company is fourteen-year-old ten
or, Emilio Vaghi. All the boys IRE still at
tending school and are allowed TO appear in
public only during their vacation. They
have been drilled in military fashion; They
earn considerable money, which is not
given to them, but, instead, paid to their
parents at home. The two oldest boys act
as supervisors during the day and as stage
managers at the evening performances.
Emma Eames, it is now said, will add an
other Wagnerian role to her repertoire for
her Russian engagements. and will be heard
as Senta in "The Flying Dutchman' a part
for which she ought to be admirably suited
in every respect At first she was not in
clined to learn the part, as she believed
that in extending her repertoire it would
be more to her advantage. to know the
heavier roles But she still has time for
them, as she has declared that not until she
is forty will she undertake Isolde. That
gives her still a long period as Nine.
Eames is about the youngest OF the fam
GUS women singers.
The opening concert of the Banda Rosa
at the New York Metropolitan Opera
House, Friday evening" was one of the most
successful in the history of the house and
came in the nature of most agreeable sur
prise to many who had doubted somewhat
the good reports as to the European tri
umphs of the organization. Not only the
splendid playing of the band, but the per-
sonality of it's leader, Maestro Eugenio
Sorrentino, made the strongest kind of an
impression on the brilliant audience.
Central Music Hall, Chicago. was packed
Thursday night to hear new Patti by the
name of Bessie o Brien, native of Spring
field, ILL., She has been for two years in
Paris studying under the direction of the
famous Nine. Mathilde MarcheSi. Miss
O'Brien was encored again and again, and
before the concert ended had sung in five
different languages-F'rench, Italian. Ger
man, Latin and English. She intends to re-
turn to Paris for additional culture before
beginning work in grand opera
The N est notable of the novelties in Italy
this winter will be presented by Sonzogno
at the Lyric Theater 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,
ana an pera bc sTnon ber Freec
works will be the "Sappho" Of M2ssenet.
Saint-Saens's "Proserpina," and Bruneau's
'L'Attaque du Moulin"
c. M. Loeffler, well known as prominent
member of the Boston Symphony Orches-
ira, has lately finished symphonic poem
for orchestra and two violas. entitled, THE
Death of Tintaglies,'' after NJ. Maeter-
lincks drama, La Mort de Tintagles." Mr..
Paur promises it's production at one of the
symphony concerts OF the present season.
M. Saint-Saens has written to the Paris
Figaro: Dear Sir-From all sides am in
formed by friends and others of my inten-
ton to write lyric drama in four acts. If
it is a fear that these people express, 1t Is
cEimerical there is no danger of such mis-
fortune and l shall be much obliged if
you will so inform your readers"
Lilli Lehman has returned temporarily
to the stage of the Royal Opera in Berlin,
which she left to come to this country and
make the reputation which placed her
where she is to-day A revival of the
s'Nibelungen Ring is the occasion of Frau
Lehmann's temperance, and she is sing
ing the Brunnhildes.
A new two-act opera of Goldmark is an
nounced. 1t bears the title, "The Prisoner
of War;" and the libretto is taken from the
Greek mythology. 1t is to be produced in
the latter part of the season at the Vienna
Court Opera.
Josef Hoffman, the pianist has been en-
gagged by the Theodore Thomas Orchestra,
of Chicago, to give series of concerts in
the United States, beginning in March next.
Miss Margaret McNulty. harp soloist, and
Mr. L'Africain cornetist have been en-
gagged to supply incidental music in Miss
Davenports new play at the Boston Thea
ter.
THE Children Of the King" Humper-
dinck's new opera, in which Cissy LOTUS
appeared at the Court Theater last week,
is another partial London failure.
Hilda Clark is singing the leading female
role in ''The Highwayman." De Koven and
Smiths new opera.
Nine. Games writes from italy that she
has been busy there with the preparation
OF eSenta.' which she expects to sing in
Russia next winter at the performance to