Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-11-08
GRAND OPERA galore
Misfortune to Lambardi Company in
Rsorganizing Proves Good
Fortune For Us.
Several Dates Lost and Ike Gets
Them For Two Nights in
Marshalltown.
"CarmenD FridaY-.Lucia Diam.
Carmen Friday Lucia Diam
mermoor' Saturday Night
Sixty Artists from Milan.

Its an ill wind that blows nobody
Manager Speers, of the Odeon, Is to be
congratulated, for he has succeeded in
engaging the Lambardi Italian Grand
Opera Company, of Milan, Italy, to APP
pear here not only November IL, but
on November 10 as we'll.
Mr.. Speers had thought himself ex-
tremely lucky to get single night, but
the gods of misfortune are playing him
in good fortune TO the extent that two
nights of grand opera will be given in
stead of one. When seen this morning
MIR. Speers said that in all his exper-
fence in the theatrical business no such
opportunity had ever before occurred
I to him to secure such a high classed
lattraction for his house.
A company like the Lambardi aggre
Igation can Ill afford to sing in any but
! the largest cities, and it is owing to a
series of mishaps. or rather, mistakes
lin bookings, that they are to be in Mar
lshalltown at all. In the process of re-
Organization undergone at Kansas City,
the discharging of an undesirable man
ager and the securing of subs titute.
| the company lost several dates. The
/ discharged manager wrote to several.
| theater managers in such cities as
Omaha, Council Bluffs and Sioux City,
lcancelling his contracts, and before the
new manager could resume the business
the dates in each city had been flied.
| When Mr. Speers heard of the situation
lit was only by such solicitation and in
Iducements known only to 1.-The king
that the company was persuaded to
lconsider Marshaltown at ALL SO when.
the company finally decided to put in
Tits time here our Ike never cracked
smile, but Immediately struck the
manager for two nights and got them.
On Friday night of this week they
4 will give the dramatic and beautiful
opera Carmen" and on Saturday night
Lucia D'Lammermoor." The prices
viii be 81 for parquet, sl.50 for dress
circle, 81 and Is cents for balcony and
80 cents for gallery. The free list will
be entirely suspended for these enter
Itainments.
Mr. Speer has investigated the record
lof the lombard Company from the
Itime it landed in Lima, Peru, four
4 years ago until it was reorganized in
Kansas City on Nov. j. and he says it
lis without question the most worthy
! and superb grand opera organiza ton
4 that has ever appeared in the western
country. He says his sole object in
bringing this company to Marshall
town is to give the music-loving public
a treat such as has never fallen to its
lot heretofore, and to do this has been
Icompelled to make terms that will alb
: Isoluteiy preclude all chance for profit
to himself.
This company left Milan. Italy. four
4 years ago and have since then been
playing continuously throughout the
Span.sh-American capitals of South
America. During that time they made
some of their grandest successes and
4 some of their greatest financial fail
ures, brought about by the Chilian and
Peruvian war. Probably their most
artistic success was achieved in Lima,
Peru, where they played a continuous
engagement of seven months and a
half, producing in that time forty-one
different operas. 1t was here that the
famous mezzo-soprano, Signorna Ste
fania Collarmarini, joined the COM
pany, opening in magnificent produc.
ton OF Carmen.
Since then the company have trav-
eled nortllWard. playing long engage
ments in Central America. and during
last winter We're six months under th'
subsidy of the Mexican government
playing at the Teatro Rationale in thu
City of Mexico During their stay il
the Mexican capital they produce
lforty-two operas.
Since then the company has piayet
con the entire Pacific coast to the salts
faction of the music lovers of Los An
eeles san Francisco and the northwes
country. Journeying eastward the.
played an engagement of four week
and half at the Broadway Theater il
Denver and have just finished an en-
! eagement of three weeks at the Coate
Theater at Kansas City.
After the 18th of the month they vii
, resume their regular route and will g.
from here to Des Moines; from Their
!. TO Memphis. Little Rock, Nashville
Ri Chattanooga Louisville, Atlanta, Biz
mingham and New Orleans.
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