The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-05-07

present edition of his Dictionary of
Music" A new edition in the German
language is to be prepared. Dr. RE
manns address is Promenaden-Str
IL LeipSic.
Signor Mascagni, having enjoyed a
short holiday after the production Of
Iris is at work upon ballet. Signor
Bracco has written the scenario, and
the work is entitled THE Marionettes.
NJ. Jean de Reszke hopes to take part
in the performance of two acts of
''Lohengrin'' which, will. take place be-
fore the Queen at Windsor on her
majesty's eightieth birthday. This,
says the London Daily News indeed
is in accordance with a promise given
the Queen a couple OF years ago. Later
on the artists from Covent Garden will
probably also be seen in a representa-
ton of "Paglicci'' before her majesty.
There is not much likelihood of any
state performance at the opera this
year, although, according to present
arrangements, the German Emperor
will be in England before the opera
season closes.
Once more the rumor comes from
Genoa, where Verdi and Bo1to have
lived for some little time past, that the
aged composer is at work upon a new
opera entitled King Lear" to a lib
retto by Boito. He is said in this TO
have gone back to his earlier style of
the "Traviata" period. The opera,
even if it be given to the world by a
veteran of Sc, will not quite establish
a record, for Auber was year older
on the production in Paris in 1869 of
his opera "Reves d'Armour."
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Madame Calve is not the only vocal
list who has enormously been announc-
ed as i'll by French and American jour
nalists Mile. Delna recently issued
an amusing rebuke to one of those
paragraphists. She wrote: You an
nounce 1 am seriously i'll. 1 cannot
further conceal from you the fact that
I am dead. Marie Delna. P. 81
shall sing at my own funeral.
Among the new singers to be heard in
London during the spring opera season
are Herr Wachter, the Dresden bass,
and Herr Bertram, the Munich bari
tone. Another debut will be that of
Mile. Febea Strakosch, who is niece
(and not. as has been stated a daugh-
teri of the late impresario Maurice
Strakosch. The young lady, who has
during the past two seasons been sing
ing in Milan, Genoa and other cities is
distantly connected with Madame
Patti. whose elder sister, Amalia, was
Maurice Strakosch's wife. Madame
Melba's engagement will be a longer
one than usual although the first six
weeks of the season will be largely de-
voted to representations in German
and the fashionable prima donna, who,
among other things, will sustain the
leading role in Puccini's La Boheme, "
is not expected until June.
Hans Richter, as the London Daily
News hears, signed on Easter Mon
day renewal of his old contract, bind
ing him to the Vienna Opera house till
the spring of 1904; and this is the only
contract that he has actually signed
with any person. Indeed, the En-
peror Francis Joseph seems to have
made a special point Of retaining the
great conductors name at the head of
lll0 V lefl0d OTCU0Slld, dlld DIS LII. tlIC1-
ter was by imperial command offered
an increase of salary amounting to
about 80 per cent, the absolute choice
of the operas he would conduct and
unlimited congo to fulfil his British
Spanish and Bavarian engagements, it
is difficult to understand upon what
possible point he could further have
stood out. There is, it will be per-
ceived, nothing in this arrangement to
prevent DR.. Richter's appearance in
Manchester although he has signed no
contract to do so, and the temptation
to brave the fatigues of continental
travelling in Lancashire and Yorkshire
during an English winter is doubtless
now not so great as before.
In his recently published book of
Wagner "reminiscences, Weissheimer re-
lates how Wagner was obliged to sus-
pend work ON Die Meistersinger' sew
eral weeks, because of his love of dogs.
Too confident of his well-known inf1u-
ence over dumb animals, he had en-