The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-01-21


4 caberram TO the philadelphia Times
dated al Rome, says that Verdi IS en-
gagged on the music for 2 new op .s
based on Shakespearean@ pay 81 e. ne
Iibretto has already been COM iesso "
Boito. It Will be given during tne car =.
Enival in Milan IN $50. q e suDlecs =
kept a profound secret. but te y sus--
pected to be Julius Caesar.
A Berlin journalist declares tnas mas
casni, with whom he had q talk not long
AGO Is quite disguised With his own
3..r.valIert Rusticar III. 9, which he consic-
ers FIR inferior to .sAmico Frttz and
others OF his operas. II try to play
8.Ir,s he remarked, .'but the public
cIamors for .Cavallerfa. = He IS now az
work on an opera to be entitled LIE
Maschere,. which he expects to bring ous
in April 1t is to be as simple as
Mozart opera. The rumor than ne was
writing Chinese ballet ne denied. ia
tory. which has about 200 pupils anu
corps Of Is teachers.
Herr Siegfried Wagner is engaged upon
a new opera, In three acts. and this TINA
mon q serious subject The first act is
already sketched and the young COM
poser announces that he intends to spend
the greater part of the winter In Rome
in order to finish 1t. Siegfried Wagner.
or course, is librettist as we'll as must-
elan. and he intends his opera for Munich
In the course Of 1901.
Ma ssenet,s ..Herodiade." viii be given
its first performance In this country at
the Metropolitan opera house. New York.
about March 1st. with Nine. Calve and
Sig Scott in the leading roles.
nIns Marchesi, the celebrated teacher
of vocal music, recently celebrated the
fiftfeth anniversary OF the beginning OF
her teaching. Among her pupils are
Media. Eames, Calve. Nevada, Sibyl
S.lnderson, Saville. Harwitz. Suzanne
Adams. and others less well known in
this country. It was OF Nine. Marchesi
that some noted French critic once said
that il Warwick had been q maker OF
kings, Madame was maker OF stars.
Lovers Of good operetta VIII rejoice to
hear OF the success OF Sir Arthur Sulli-
vans latest score, THE Rose OF Persia
which was recently produced at the Sa-
voy Theatre. The London papers hava
praised the work highly. The Telegraph.
for example, says: 1T may be said that
'LuS - OASC a5tL111 AooOhotShy A1AAAA
self. This is of course good hearing, for
it is as much as to say that the COM
poser's rare feeling for the sweet and the
beautiful. the humorous and the charac
teristic In music Is still with him.
The Conservatism at Pesaro. Italy, over
which liascagni presldes, has about 200
pupils and Is instructors. Pupils are
obliged to remain nine years, or about
-. H., A rta~,p rxtv
think it necessary to become prima dor
mas at 81, COO a night.
The GuiIdhal School OF Music, the iarg-
est conservatory in London. publishes Its
report for the last school year. Receipts
for tuition $780, 0G0, of which S11a,5G0 We're
expended in salaries. and the remainder
covered the running expenses. The tuition
fees varied from SL50 to $3.50 an hour.
One violin teacher. one singing teacher
and one piano teacher, each received 900
a year; 10 teachers received 5000. willis
l., obtained only s!,5OO. the lowest salary
paid.
verdi's ..Ernani'' has been revived with
success at Warsaw.
Charles a. E.. Harriss. the composer OF
s.Toruuil'' q dramatic legend OF martial
character. will soon perform his work In
the cities Of Montreal, Toronto and OF
tawa The proceeds will be sent to the
Canadian soldiers In the TransvaaI.
The death is announced o. NJ Joseph
Dupont, the famous conductor, who was
for many years at the head OF ths or
chesrra of the Monnaie. Brussels. Fte
labored specially for the Wagner cause.
being the first to revive Qs.3) Tam
hauser'. in French after the Paris tiasco
of 1861 and also the first to give "Dia
Walkure'' and "Die Meistersinger IN
French. NJ. Dupont, born IN 1898. was
conductor OF the popular concerts at
Brussels for over a quarter of cen
tury.-New York Evening Post.
Alfred Nossig is the librettist OF Pader-
ewssi's opera which as yet, however,
has not been chrstened.
Adelina Patti wilt sing and the duchess
of Marlborough will recite at the march-
ioness of Lansdowre's benefit for British
soldiers widows and orphans to be given
at Coyent Garden. London, February I'd.
Including Siegfr!ed Wagner's "Baeren-
haeuter,'' sixteen new grand operas, all
by living German composers. were per-
formed for. the first time In Germany dur
ing last year.
At the coming session of the Mass
achusetts Legislature bill and petition
will be introduced for the establishment
OF a new office under the general super
VISION OF the State Board of Education
It will create State director OF music
similar In functions = nd practice to tins
present Office OF State director OF draw
ing.
At a recent appearance OF Mascagni and
the Scala Orchestra at q concert in
Leipsic Pietro was recalled twenty times
amidst the widest enthusiasm.
The Allgemeine Musik-Zeitung an-
no,1nces that Bach's Matthew Passion
is to be given next year for the frst tins
In Italian {text by Count LuranD. at tbs
Venice Conservatorio by the director.
Signor Enrico Bossi, a talented composer.
whose music is favorably known In Ger
many. an oratorio Of his Is to be pro-
duceds next March by the Riedefsche We
rein. Leiptsc.