The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-20
HIGH SCHOOL IN OPERA
"IoLANTHEv TO BE GIVEN AT THE
GRAND NEXT FRIDAY.
Performance Under the Direction of
Mrs. PerIe WiIkfnsOn--Music
and Musicians.


public schools of this city Mrs Wilkinson
has had experience in England with both
Gilbert and Sullivan in the production of
their operas, and is particularly well quail
flied to give the best possible production
with local talent. The pupils gave a sue
cessful performance last year of the "Pi-
rates of Penzance.' The scenery will be
especially selected, and the costumes are
all from Wolf, Fording & Co., of Boston,
and were made for a production at the
Castle-square Garden. They are new and
very handsome. The girls are fairies and
the boys peers of England. The first scene
is an Arcadian landscape; the second, the
palace yard at Westminster. Date, between
100 and 1882. OF the cast Arnold Spencer,
Claude Compton and Frank Baden made
successes in last years production. The
performance will be given Friday and Sat-
urday evenings and Saturday afternoon,
with the following cast:
The Lord Chancellor. Mr.. Arnold Spencer
Earl OF Mount Ararat. Mr.; Claude Compton
Earl Tolloller. Mr.. Dwight Smith
Private Willis (of the Grenadier -
strephon can Arcadian shepherd)......
,.:..............M Mr. Joseph Sweeney
queen of the Fairies =. Miss Edith Conner
Iolanthe Ca Fairy, Strephon's Mother)
......................M Miss Minetta Tucker
Leila. ...................Mis Miss Beatrice lice
Phyllis ian Arcadian Sheperdess and
Ward in Chancery). .....Miss G.. Calvin
Fairies-Misses Bessie Sherman Lucy
Bevan, Bessie De Frees Fannie De Frees,
Grace Baird. Amy Mcmillan, Olive Mac
Gilvray, Edna Burton, Elsie Emmerich,
Lille Lipman, Matilda Sieboldt, Eva Cess
ler Edna Heller, Augusta Hunter, Clara
Christian, May Mcmillan. AGA Cralg' Jennie
Hanson. Dorothy Mayer Georgia Mayer,
and Masters Joe Overman, Joe Bevan, JAS.
De Frees, Ray Davis.
Dukes Marquises, Earls, Viscounts and
Barons-Messrs. Will Reade, Edward Pfllet,
Milton Cash, VIII Pram, Alfred Cosler
Albert seaton, Lee Taylor, George fLennox
Clyde Lowry, Olin Hatton, Edward Buscher,
Ralph Wells, Maurice Shearer, George
Eckert, Fred Van Pelt, Harry Satter-
thwaite, Hugh Thatcher, Edward Wright
The proceeds will be devoted to the cause
of music in the public schools, the amount
probably going toward the purchase of
piano. The pupils are the workers for the
entertainment.
A piano recital will be given at Roberts
Park Church, Wednesday evening, by Miss
Mamie Jenkins, assisted by Miss Josephine
Robinson and Mrs. S. l.. Kiser at o'clock,
with this programme:
A AGee from Sonata OBJ Os Be e 68en
Spinning Song, op 81, No. A. .Mendelssohn
k Ieinqs np o op. Is Nos. and
IF Were a Bird" op. q No. g.. .Henselt
''Gavote' op. IA :....................Sg ambatl
.Poonaise" op. Chopin
20 Don Fatale," from Don Carlos Verdi
Miss Josephine Robinson. accompanied by
Mrs. Cecil Smith.
Concerto in A Minor" op. TO-. .Grieg
Orchestral part on a second piano by Mrs.
S. L. Kiser.
A piano recital by the intermediate grade
pupils of Mr.. Max Leckner will be given
FRIDAY evening at D. H. Baldwin's. The
Leckner Quartet will play the first and last
Carr will sing and Miss Halpin and Miss
Susie Brown will play duet. The pupils to
play solos are Mrs. Charlotte. s. Scott,
Louise M. Reese, Jean l. Morrison. Flor
ence Rogers, Lorraine Cost Nellie Shower:
Anna Rogers, Regina Wineman and Isabel
Haas.
Miss Marguerite Lemon, the prima donna,
made her second professional debut IN New
York Friday night. This time Miss Lemon
is with Augustin Days company and the
musical curtain-raiser in one act, from the
German of Wolfgang Kirchbach, and music
by Franz Curt. The New York Herald says:
Miss Marguerite Lemon, who played the
title roll also scored a decided hit as an eX-
cellent comedienne and delightful singer.
The piece is spoken OF as a tapieau Oh Jap
anese beauty.
Mascagni has already delivered to his pub
Usher the score of the first two acts of
Iris" his new Japanese opera, and the
work is to be completed during the next
ship to Ricordi, to allow Mascagni to play
the score to him, and doubtless the world
will never discover what his real opinion of
it is. He lately received a deputation in
Milan from the committee interested in the
condition of La Scala, which has been
closed all winter, owing to a dispute be-
tween the box holders and the municipal
'ty. Verdi expressed great regret that the
historic house should not open. and, in
praiSing the work of the committee
trying to settle the dispute, spoke with the
enthusiasm of youth 1T is shame that
such theater should be closed" he said
"a theater with the traditions of a century
clinging to it. ] can scarcely realize that
such thing should come TO pass. l can
scarcely conceive of Milan without La
Scala
The great operatic success in Italy this
season is that Of "Nemea a new opera
by Ernesto Coop, a young Neapolitan COM
poser, which was produced the other day at
the Teatro Rossini, in Venice. The libretto
of the one-act opera is by Merotti Buja,
and the scene occurs two thousand years
before our era on the classic soil of Greece
The story is said to be simple pastorale.
poor in action, but with great wealth of
pretty situations. A love duet was par
ticularly successful and had to be repeated
several times and after the short work
the composer was called out a dozen times
Another new Italian opera has been given
at the Teatro Lirico, in Milan. Daudet's
Bizet to the well-known suite, "L'Arlesi-
enne," has been set to music by f. Cilea
young Neapohtan.
Rubenstein's "Christus" was to have
been given not long ago in Cologne. The
composer on his last visit to that city, ex-
pressed TO the director of the theater the
hope that his religious opera might be per-
formed there After having seen the work
at Bremen the manager decided to perform
the opera, which he thought in a Roman
Catholic city would be appreciated.
prominent preacher in the city was con-
suited and was at first in favor of the plan
but later he decided that it might be con-
sGered sacrilegiouS by some Christians
ana the project in view of his opposition
was abandoned. Now the preacher is dead,
and it is thought that Cologne may hear
the religious opera, for which preparations
have already been made:
A musical expedition is to set out shortly
from Berlin for Italy, with the object of
overcoming the shyness that exists there
toward German music. AT its head will be
Arthur Nikisch the director of the famous
orchestra of the. Berlin Philharmonic. The
most important among the old and new
German operas, Mozart's Don Giovanni"
Wagner operas and Humperdinck's 'Hansel
and Gretel' viii be performed. 1t is pos
sible that the Italian tourney Will be fol-
lowed by series of performances in Paris
The Emperor is showing lively interest