New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-12-27
CERTAIN OPERATE AFFAihS'
MONEY TO BE REFUNDED WHEN CAolo
APE CHANGED-MNE. GADSKI ENGAGED

MONEY TO BE REFUNDED WHEN NA0i'
APE CtIANGED-MME. GADSKI ENGAGED.
The managers OF the opera seem to have taken
genuinely to heart what has been salu III Inc
Tribune and other papers In the las' re" U"y
about refunding money paid for tickets wnen 'he
,os+ ,r,nortant singers of the cast Of an opera as
announced are unable to appear. on Saturuay'
when Nine. Calve was announced 10 s"ie -
Faust and was unable when the time came 10 90
So no money was refunded. 1t was this 'hat oau'e
the disturbance -, .os.o.
day: IallL3m
ya still think that we are absolutely right IN
the matter of refusing to refund money, put We
wish satisfy the public ana .ne 6Pbsnse in the
cast of an opera will refund the money ,I Ioe
ticket, to aGK whG for visa future
does apply OF course 70 o the Whoe season
apd no promise of any particular sngsrs went nj
yith them All that was promised 10 the buyers u
subscription tickets was opera
Mr. Grau's last remark applies to one or two
con,n,aInts which have been made lately that
,,ctets which were bought OF certain spectators
were not redeemed either by the box ofice or by
the Spectator. when the opera was changed. Inc
managers side OF this question is that the specu-
lators tickets are subscription tickets, nougnI az
the beginning OF the season, without any piO, re
on the part OF the management as to what opera
shall be performed or by whom az any gwen g . Fe
single performances, the managers fna.an. , INA
them at all OF aHeCt tHeH poSItiOh'
These tickets sold to the SPECTATORS as 70 the
rest Of the public a discount OF 70 per cent, on
account OF the subscription for the whole season.
The Spectators sell them sIngly at the regular box
Office price for single performances, ana mus MAKE
profit equal to the reduction at which they nongnt
them Thus II the management were 10 redeem
them at the box Office price it would be buying
back 81 ticket FOR s.. Some of the speculat tors
AR. also allowed have few OF the ordinary poH
office seats. There about two hundred and hfty
seats In the back OF the orchestra circle
which are not sod by subscription, and OF these
some fifty go spectators and the other two nun
bred are sold at the box office. Opera goers VINO
have not subscribed for the season would be abso-
lutelv unable 10 get in the best parts OF the
orchestra at ALL I: the Spectators had not taken
the subscription seats that they have taken, TO sell
sngly.
Two or three stories about operate affairs were
printed yesterday which were unfounded' and u IS
scarcely worth while to deny them specifically. MT
Grau has lust made contract with Nine. Gadsk
for several years. She will sing only a few times
this season as she Is already engaged for concert
tour and this will not be interfered with. She Will
| mako her first appearance with the opera company
in Philadelphia on Thursday as Eiizabeth IN
| 'Tannhauser." and her first appearance In New
| YORK viii be as senta in THE Flying Dutchman,
| ON Saturday afternoon, January 6. Nine. Gadski
| has already been engaged for the next three or
! four seasons at Covent Garden, London