The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-16

and four times in the Imperial Opera in
vienna. In May she will probably sing at
the Grand Opera in Paris, where she has
been invited to appear as Ophelia in Ham
let" which will be revived for a series of
performances in case she accepts the en-
gagement Later she Will sing at Covent
Garden In London Nine. Sembrich will re-
turn next autumn to this country for a
concert tour, which will include thirty APP
pearances.
London Vanity Fair says: Patti is really
marvellous. She never sang better than on
Saturday last, when her clear, restful. vel
vety voice filed every Granny of the great
Albert Hall. 1t is easy, OF course, to say, as
some do, that Mime. Patti sings only songs
that she has mastered; that she avoids so
Tar as she may, all notes other than her
middle notes-and all the rest of it, But the
fact remains that there is still but one Patti
VINO mas no rival. She is wondsrful woman
ana divine songstress; just as blithe and
bonny as ever The house was enthusiastic
as only Patti can make it"
Nine. Brazil, who has been engaged to
sing at the Metropolitan with the Dam
rosch- ELLIS company is an American con-
tralto who has for several seasons been
singing with success in Europe. Last year,
when it was thought that a regular season
at the Metropolitan would be given under
the customary auspices, she was engaged by
Maurice Grau. All the European reports of
they have come largely from London, where
Garden.
NJ Maurel, the De Reszkes, along with
Nine. Litvinne, will go to st. Petersburg
and sing there at the Theater Marie, which
is the royal theater of the Russian capital.
They will sing the trilogy and other operas
in German, as during the time in which
they are to be heard there all singing and
acting in the Russian language is forbidden.
This is the season of fasting, and only per-
formances in foreign languages are allowed
during the four weeks preceding Easter.
Francis Wilson recently met Anthony
Hope at a breakfast in Philadelphia which
was attended by DR.. Weir Mitchell, Owen
Wistar and other notables.. Mr.. Hope con-
tends that Wilson would be sure of an an
qualified triumph in London in his perform
ance of Half a King"
AT st. Petersburg monument in honor
of the great composer, Tchaikowsky, has
just been raised in the cemetery of that
city, where he died four years ago. A beau
tiful bust from the hand Of the sculptor,
hamensky, makes part Of the monument.
Very few persons believe the report cur
rent in Italy that Verdi is about to marry
again. He is said to have selected Nine.
StoItz, singer who has been for years his
-
will be his third venture.
Otto Lohse, the composer, and the hus-
band of the late Katharine Klafsky, has
written a three-act comic opera called "A
Prince in Spite of Himself" 1t has been ac-
cepted for production in Cologne and other
German cities.
In 1900 the Seventh Regiment of New York
will go to the Paris exposition six hundred
men strong. For this occasion the band will
be increased to seventy-five men, with forty
drummeIs, making total of 1l5 men.
Clementine De We're will probably be one
of the leading prima donnas of the next
Italian opera season at the Metropolitan
Opera House in New York, beginning in
November.
A movement is on foot among the leading
musicians of New York to tender Adolph
Neuendorffs widow Nine. Georgine Won
Januschowski, benefit.
Banda Rosa will resume its concerts in
Chicago this week until the musicians strike
again.