The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-02-06
NEwSOF OPERA IN EUROPE
PLANS ron TB- FIRING SEASON Al
COHENT GARDEN.

Singers ana works About 10 ne Heard In Ion.
~dou-nrnrth OF New Operas In Itai,
Lchraann ut viennn-Opera In Germany
and Mt ST. PetcrsburE-Notrs or Musicians.
The opera season Mt Covcnt Garden this spring
will DO given in tho main by singers who are
familiar here or arc soon to DO introduced to
New York. Evidently great reliance Ia placed
on Mile. CRlv6, who has not sung at Covcnt
Garden for two years. For her benefit "Sapho"
will probably be sung, and her picturesque, IL
hashy, Interpretation OF MdrDucr. te is expected
to make ms much of q sensation rs IL did here.
1t Is largely a matter OF wig, and IL she sticks to
| the unique halo of bronze hair that she wore hero
London may succumb. She will also appear in
Bo1to's "Mcfis;otclc," and hor debut in London
as OphGiic In Ambrose Thomas's Hamlet" will
take place during the season. Nine. Melba will
be included in the company in all probability.
and Maurice Grau's object In coming to Amer
lea is TO settle with her the details of her con-
tract. Nine. Nordica will sing with Jean de
RcsZk6 In the Wagner operas, and has under.
taken Catherine In Saint-Sa6ns's Henry VIII.
OF sa Cour," which will DO one of tho seasons
new productions. Nine. Nordica always steps
into tho breach under such circumstances, al
though Hero, which was offered to her, will he
taken by Nine. Eames. Besides Mancinclli's
opera and the Submissions work, there will be
little or nothing now done in London. The audi
ences there are almost as averse TO new operas
as those Of the Metropolitan. There is talk of
Puccini's "Manon " and one of the new operas
founded on Murger's "yio de Boheme."
Spinellis "a Basso Porto which has gone into
the repertoire of tho Berlin Opera. has also been
mentioned, and it ought to contain one fine
part for Marie Brema, who has lately made q
success at the Opera Comique in Paris. Zelie do
Lussan Is to sing in Carmen" Ella Russell
will also be q member of the company. Among
the German ainpera will he Milla Tprninn and
Frau -Hcink. Fraulein Ternina will
BIO heard In London for tho first time.
Schumann.Heink, who is to sing at the Metro
politan Opera House next winter. has just
signed q ten years contract with the Royal
Opera in Berlin after having announced that
she would make no more permanent contracts,
but remain free to accept tho moro lucrative
engagements Of America and England. Possibly
the fact that her husband, who is an actor, was
ut the Same time engaged for the Royal Theatre.
reconciled her to the SO. 900 which she will re-
Offer from Hamburg. Nine. Gadski is also
to appear for the first time At Covent
IN GaFf Paris. M Miif be s'F IN the from Company lHS op Sns
Van Dyck will, of course, return. Fraulein Van
Artner, a vienness meai9critS; VIII pc IN inc
third-rate Continental singers who make up the
rank and hle OF the organization will furnish
would Immediately rebel at them. The notable
understood, only a few times during the season,
and not. as they do here, once or twice a week
the important Wagner productions. and Man
cinelli will be another conductor.
Usher the score OF the first two acts or Iris"
his new japanese opera, and the work is to be
sSnsented. out S%sFi ofF t ihs asbf m 10 hicoT riFG to has al.
so"ai M1ssc1 1En w to play Wi,I the nes sepr sis .o h,m w qmd
6 bis peei opinion rhe %0e Of it Wis is. nf He LATELY HhsfSH receiVed
a deputation in Milan from the committee
interested in tho condition Of La Scala:
and the municipality. Verdi expressed
open. and. in praising the work of the committee
now trying to settle the dispute, spoke with the
1T is a shame that such a theatre should be
closed" he said; i" theatre with the traditions
thst such a Thing BIZ should come to pass. ! can
scarcely conceive OF Milan without. La Scala"
presarIo, has disappointed some less prominent
Italian singers than sIgnor Tamagno. Giuseppe
E ire 10 I,ni who is SAD TO TO pc pc III s WITH s9nsu mp
this spring. and so was Nine. Eugenia Mantelli.
Comment on the small OUTPUT of new Italian
works during the present season has been very
general among Italian and German critics, as
Italy usually puts forward a. number of novel;
Some idea of the present standards of perform
ances there may be gained from the fact that
tome Was generally thought at the beginning
OF the season to be disgracetully, bad, and it
Ndh Stlu llhI INC lUthlTt "OuIu Uc CIOStu. |
NiGnas, who is remembered here. was said to be
the only capable member of the organization.
chenier. given by a company SO poor in quail.
ity that the public utterly refused to attend.
The The u mFfnaEsT dse sinrsrs. "t MSo a ,r fsT 1 1d sond nnd
the enterprise on their own, responsibility. came
TO- t3o grief eo at the H9 end do of a, a week We koD SSch is Is opera ,b in
singers are enthusiastic at the opportunity TO
go to this country. Russia, or South America.
sing again in opera, has just appeared as Norma
at Vienna. and will give series OF performances
who sang here in LA cigale~ and has for a
opera: boHirc. win . become a member Of tho
Royal Opera at Vienna, where the auditorium
appear first as Mime. Nine. Frances saville. who
went to the theatre for only a few perform.
sasS piea Hss D tSe v FRsGs sSF o csSs ef !h eG %perss sn ho
be sIySn by the COMPANY onSro VII II ,h be s, pme G C
European city excepting Paris, Marie Renard.
Ernst Err Van Dy Snd and "a. GTenggj n who were M "a on
IN the new work on the same sub:
Mendo.' the opera BY Baron Erlancer,
which was performed through social in,
London. One of the former operas by the same
author was sung four years ago In Hamburg:
IS Hob" by Richard Lederer, n composer well
known in Munich. Paul kalischl; 1iIli Leh-
mann husband, mas become lchulnK tenor ht
the Stadt Theatre in Hamburg in place OF Will
holm Giuening. Berlin will certainly have tho
new opera house, for the purposes Of which a
theatre built only n few years ago has been
changed. This will make the third opera house
in the German capital. Rubinstein's "Christus"
was to have been given not long ago IN Cologne:
city Expressed to tho director Of the the.
atre the hopo that his religious opera
the work at bremen. the manager decided TO
perform the opera. which he thought. in n Iioman
Catholic city would be appreciated. A promi.
ncnt preacher in the city was consulted, and
was at first IN favor of the plan; but later he
decided that il might be considered sacrilegious
by some Christians. and the project. in view OF
his opposition, was abandoned. Now the
preacher Is dead. and 1t is thought that Cologne
may hear tho religious opera. for which prepa-
rations have already been made.
There are some curiositics OF news among the
musicians. and tho following are tho most in
teresting among them: For the Royal Theatre
ut Stockholm Nine. Conti.Geissler has lately
been engaged rs tenor. She Is said 10 have "A