The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-09-03

in Portland and Bangor, and will appear with
he opera dusns the ra sf Tsss
so%s 70 40 sna % March 81: iss SovsPpt
probable that the CONF any will make another
tour, reyisiting Boston. and II the guarantees
are forthcoming, undertaking the trip to San
The Carl Rosa Opera Company is having
hard time living up to It's old reputation. As
opera In the vernacuar in England 10 repre-
sonted chiefly by this organization, the chances
look slim at present. The company had to
close UP recently to recover It's financial eauil-
ibrium. An operate version OF O. B. Fernalds
THE Cat and the Cherub." for which Victor
Hollander wrote the music. was the last nov
city attempted by tho Rosa Company. One OF
the most remarkable pieces OF fiction over
written about o com poser has Ruggiero Leon
cavallo for Its hero. The composer visited
an Italian town under an assumed name to
transact some private business. They were
giving "Pagiacci" In the evening. and Leon
cavalo went incognito to tho theatre to hear
his own opera. His neghbor appeared to
be an enthusiastic amateur. and his fervor
grow so great that ut the end OF the en-
tracte he was forced to exclaim. fe
eodsl What a masterpiece!' Not at all."
said Leoncavallo. who 10 born practi-
cal Joker. I'm a bit OF musician my
self. and believe mo. know. 1t Is very $3.50
sort OF piece. Even at the risk OF contradict
ing you. must say that i 10 made up 81 patch
hi saf ss% ss5e isif "a:
score 81 v 1erdis. Next Next morning Teoncavailo
e efsa ioss tosrnals En- s aEsisls sssdsd xdnIs
Eho Was VA: ere VIZ knew hn
well by sight
Johann Strauss sold TO the Theatre an der
| Wien shortly before his death all the rights to
Die Fledermaus." and the Imperial Opera
| House in Vienna will have to surrender the
| work after Oct. l. Strauss did this without
| anybody's knowledge and received but q small
sum for the rights. whereas the opera house
| would willingly have paid q large sum for the
| ownership OF the work. The director did all
| he could to get everything possible out OF the
work by giving It four times week during
short period preceding his surrender OF the
| work which has grown 30 popular since the
composers death. In Berlin. the summer
repertoire OF the new opera house has practi-
caly been confined to this work. It Is not gem
orally known that on it's first representation In
| Italy Die Fledermaus" was O fiat failure. 1t
| was given at Geneva in 1873. and tine indg-
nant audience barely allowed the performance
| to come to an end. The characters were for
some unaccountabe reason dressed through
| out the play in the most remarkable fashion.
| The hero was in clowns costume
| throughout the opera and the women
were CARRIED In equally extravaganza fashion.
| The libretto naturally seemed like nonsense.
| under the circumstances, and the spectators
| expressed their feelings so emphatically that
| the opera never acquired it's vogue IN Italy
| and to this day is less popular than much in
| ferior Viennese works. Next to Die Fielder
maus" the French operetta La File de Nine
| AnGot" has survived better than any operetta
OF Its age. 1t has recently been given $50
times in Paris and had previously been sung
1900 times in the same city. All over the world
1t is said to have had 10000 repr esentations.
| 1t has been translated into fourteen languages.
has drawn more than $1s0O.Ooo and a more
picturesque estimate holds that the author and
mpossr received 81 900 for every note. while
ten times that sum went to the managers.
Nine. Angot seems to have been real person
MIssissippi scheme and attracted the attention
js an Ss,os s Sss sosd ioTsaps All vSsn
she lost her suddenly acquired wealth, re-
a%e TO Anso SSf Became ssooR
during the day. OF her Wealth AND sb she became
a as ansot as th e Ras Ia q tho
IT, sDsS srs bfg Hssn %
in shs Was taken as the heroine o, ro-
With eoneisrses He tells how Tms' Ansot and
daughter wh9 now appears for the sst
s"d *. hs
essS her and Nine hss
self born to pc great; when the Bey ordered
her e stranEe hsrse an "pera0p m Wheh ths
s1GGd most es dssnt srsot Finally she Is rsIsSssd
He In Paris iso and ams Is RSps 9ss
.! Nine Hpeos'' II u 1902 ,hs s!s.E Foii!ss
pieces. Nine Hneot in tho seraglio at Con
This play, based on the romance; had great
YsaF TSs sSn 9 e.
SS3S9oo franc, xh!i si the ", adsiSS9@r' ,xgddss
ds nm o. A5eo tes
music BY hsHSq tSonsst
Il. iSrstto od honsd and at Se
say IN It some good effects: IN spite Of the
td hasias9 and ' eerta,nS nsycr s9pscsd an,
such success as It made: The Brussels per:
s .eane eseee Here diSieultss began After The
t tho 81. OF tas
did not laugh once" and as he was an old OK.
. depressed The first performance was on
Feb Fl 1873 At the very beginning 1up pE y
several times. but the ice was broken by the
political allusions and the first act ended amid
. requested him to strike out everything tina!
had any political reference or the piece would
the operetta proceeded. and on leaving tho
the house Lecoq had The pleasgTe OF over.
, greatest success OF the year" Ths piece wa
played there from Feb. 81. 1872, to April g
1874 without interruption and tho theatre
took In 1924 800.