The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-03-31
"THE MAGIC FLUTE"
Fine Performance of Mozart's Opera at the
Metropolitan.

Mo2art's fairy opera III Flauto Magico.' was
heard on the stage OF the Metropolitan
Opera House once before last night. But
that wa. a charity performance hurriedly
prepared and unpretentiously rendered
by the Damro,ch Opera Com pany. So the rep.
resentation gwen last evening in an ambitious,
lavish and. in most ways. trlum phant manner
may be regarded as practically the first heard
at the Metropolitan. 1t set a high
standard. Mozart's opera has long
enabled manage to group together their
popular prima donnas, but a knowledge OF
former casts makes it improbable that ANY
collection was ever more brilliant than that
heard last night. Mines. di Murska and Lucca
have been heard together in the roles sung By
Mines. sembrich and Eames. So have
Etelka Gerster and Marie Rose. Marie
Mar,mon and Alwina Nalleria. But
these names are no greater than
those on the programme. 900; night, Assoc
cIa,e, with them was "a long list. Poi Plancon.
Andreas Drrpe and Giuseppe Camranari. were
Iern,nu. VINO, in tuIl, allegiance to the
S f%i+ r ana .N IS.'.' zo! 's's DE- ffus.na. s]pz ;"5r;;
ADAMS. Mattel ol,fska, brds~eI, am
Thus it will sr seen that not onIy in tn" lead
ing figures, but down 70 Hose subordinate
enough 10 be ignored usually. IN" attempt
opera as it never had been before. And no
such elaborate attempt bad ever been made
here to u: p advantage OF every opportunity tor
sprctac q afforded by ScnlSah"deis most re-
mnrkable ,ibr"tto.
Last nights performance represented the
most I'm bilious and at the zane time the
most expensive production Of Siozart's OPP RI
that New YORK has ever hal the ppp9rtunity
@, hearing. That the opera would have
a,real"d to III" publ 10 so strongly, without
ihs oyprWhclmIug combination OF talent and
sIrrt .clr : uncertain The audience. that
ynrckpi the house asst hight was PROBABLY
ior"d beyond description by q considerably part
Of thr music is beautiful. beyond any
ding that Mozart confused in. his
other ntera. The ehorg.es OF the
u thu score allotted to Ast,trnmpen't and
Iln,nI ar" exquisite, On the other hand,
There il much IN the work that is a. uninterest.
ing A. PARTS OF ,hetext. That III Flnu,o Mag!co'
public ia shown by the fact that the perform
ancc given asst D iRht was but the thirty-eighth
Hesri here re ,s 3!s"o9 e e tns f aRsT mo wa. ri. rrf e
all probability, be ADDED to this number, be
iorr the present season at the Metropo Titan
Nine sembrich sang the Queen q the Night
tr"mely difficult ARIA. which are the ex-
tent Of H. GnsralsinI ,9ie wer" 50.
iiurr which Mozart added to This dramatic
music. merely Tor the sake Of the singer
who gave them tirst must be the de:
VIII voice. Merely to execute family the top
notes NAV not he d %lfllcuIt. OF may. at
al events. BE- within ih' power Of
with such qua litv Of tone and to overcome the
d ricul,ies 40 dazzlingly would be possible to
no other singer on the stage to-day, And it
made the vcr'urmnncee even more remarkable.
Nine. Eames was admirably. suited to the
role OF Pinuinn, Her beauty adorned it as po-
Character is exactly suited to her temrcra.
ment and she sang the music with
great skin a. well AS loneliness OF tone. II was
reason heI success was more gratifying to her
admirers. The three ladies' IN waiting were
sung by Mines. Tsrnina. Mantelli AMI Bride
we who made her nrst arr earance az the
Metropolitan and revealed even in the trios
the possession Of a voice that entitled her To
be on that stage. The music Of the three senii
s wSi T n1caiianl' SS mn G B. f hn.ssn Sd Ia no. 9, .ssm
al home as Papa oena. Bur il must be an
extremely difficult role Tor an artist 10 feel at
hoD no II s% n'@;T ne f"y m n.s'@ .Iat to u Ho fIs q, 6 tas
HIS voice never sounded more beautiful
than n, the suoye. flowing melodies
: .nnui.iie and perfected method Of Tsngins
eyrr revealed to greater advantage, His low
tones seemed almost as rhrnomenal rs the
high notes which Nine sem6rich hung into the
clarity OF tone.
VI Dippel was a fair 7GnnO. who showed
plainly the result Of experience and practice
In the part. sig. Cam panari was a good
PhpagpnO. He SANK his aria in the second
act with such a good quality OF voice that
It seemed a pity he did not Impair,
more variety 10 his singing. Sig. Pini-CorsI
was q capable .MOnOstatOs. Nm. Muhlmsnn
pufricho and MeuX had the other roles, Sig
Mancinelli. who conducted the opera for the
first time, contributed his share TO the gener.
| ally t%rlumphant eNent Of the evening.