The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-04-08
SIGNOR SCOTT ON HIS ART
a CHAr MN THE NEW BsRY7ONE
or THE PRESENT sEASON.
Career Before He Came Here = In
thusinstio over the New Italian school
-Admires Wagner Voice and Method
the sinEeI'a Chief uMhliiiea. lie hny..

the SINGERS Shief Qualities, He Says.
Italian bary,onss have not Tor one reason ~
another playe d a very conspicuous role IN ,he Ter.
formances al The Metropolitan opera House dunne
rec~n, SEASONS. tne cause q thus has l-en II
course the comparative unpopular,y nowadays
OF the operas In which Italian s.rgers Of tins kIId
used 10 make their greatest impression m
gule,,o, "once a most popular opera her". LeEanC"d
a particularly fine barytone. The same yss tue
Of Il Airicaine,' La Trayiata" anu nHny Il
the French and Italian works that are nov heard
Inirequenly. Don Giovanni remains one
Of the few Italian Operas now free Ter
formed that require the services Of a grea, singer
II came 10 pass IN this way hat tie great Italian
barytones gradually DISAPPEARED irum he lo,Gl
or@rauc stage. They became less and !ess I'M
poriant in til opera CONF aniss a,the Metropolitan.
1t was IN kUrrtEal, MohrGm and To.Gp,bEi
tla, the public was interested, rather Than IN
RieoisRo, G,rnon' or d, Luna. Recent lary,on"s
Of distinction al the Metropolitan ho sans lie
French and Italian roles made ihrlr reputation
bcfOlc hey zane here indeed, a long INC
leiur- lhry came here The most potable
Of ,Lcse were Jean lassalle and Victor Manuel
Neither OF them came here dUnng tie present
regime at Tie Metropolitan Opera llouse IN ill
possession II the powers hat had gGIied them
fame abroad. only EScGmilo, durng Nine
Caves .nsagenents here, really seemed 10 &C.
uand the engagement, Of a new bary'one. humots
come 10 his country, from ume 10 ure, Of lie
fure that some have gained abroad lie
creates, u all these l. BaIslIi, who slngs II
Russia every year and has a.say ; hc.a his scT-
vices a, so high a figure that Mr Grau la, never
found ii pusslU.e 10 come !" Al Ch4'E r. AIMING
with him. tie has sung for the lass 'en sea :
in Russia with Mut Set ttcA ifanr"sD'
d Andrsuc. Portuguese, who has leon for years
a most popular s.0ger IN GeflHany, has no"
passed the days Of his PRIME. lie was last heard
Of conspicuously with Alme. Melba Il ! eTl..
These names were more or less familiar 10 al
persons win more than a casual kL"N edge Il
operauc personalities. OF Slgnor Antonio Scoli,
however, -carc-ly a word had been heard H. New
Nora uuni the beginning o! the prvseLi season
al the Metropolitan That he hau sung IN Lon
don at CoSeni Garden and leen engaged ly
Nj Grau on account Of his success thcrr - Don
Giorapni AID Amond'co Was pra ideally the eN-
tent Of the information eNlsuLg here abpui him
Probably his was due 10 the fact that SlC.1r
Scotu after his successful debut spent very N,he
lime in his native Italy lie returned Occasionally
10 Milan 10 appear al Ia Scala IN 80 !aiof'aai
a Performance as the nrsi Italian prOGu,.on a.!
Die Mestrsinger, in which lie 'creaicc' Hans
Sactsin Italian. But he visited early IN ms career
two VI the three countries hat are the happy hum
ing srounCs Of foreign singers. OuisIee q
America, great fortunes are 70 I've made in Russia
and South AmenOa After has successful debut
fla Scala, Signor Sco,u went 10 Russia and he"
Ia Buenus res. Dunng the ten years tia, lie
hasslaen on lie sage, much o. his TIME Las oeen
psssed In Russia, where he has surg IL must Of
tie large cues excepting 81 le,ersJLrs lie
Is under contract to sing al the MeropohisH opera
House Tor the next three years, SO New York l.,
ll,r!! ~ hear much Of MIN IN Me near future.
Ss S"'u - nov 81 Ir'Is "a ~ .nlA,
Younger. and IN 6 neiNl, feeling ana %c'nGG'i
Sons M; In a youth u ~ i' hos 'h~
IA ,rcurai. euthusla'ar temperament Of M Ser
y4u'an H. ,dIAs Of his ar with ieryor anu o.Er
lines laughs nj his own enthusiasm when 4
seems 70 nav" g"h" n NIUE 70" .it eN"n luf an
iurord b. the r,uur that fucgni la luN'a
had rally obtained vcr> hlLs success IN Italy
anu IA, anrly g. lrvNe a dsapp dn'reht eslrc'-
ally a. "a" second nc, tom NlIrh - much w.
rXl.cieG lAd .allrd I" maze an IMPRESSION al iH-
rrsi performance.
IE4 frLi~a Pur,au T., ing the l-AG,ns
bafyi1ns r. IN TIE first p-ri 'm,uC b" SAID.
out Le -N-4,ed No rather tLHu int fi"re viii nv
Ing cncgs 'n"at h"r- uo.gHi M second
al NoIid tl;H remarkably ,.ec v" ana Co'o :
unGars,a nj it, failure rdps -, Ac,plonu .. theory
mat IN H.'-ll>t put 70" many hon ITS inc 90"
At hpu SNOW h" com '-S-ei lHp hrt> mic uH-
IN oder 10 n.rian H. 4. - fran u'"'a'r. I'i'..
AMI th- l>al, mI>i huya cell u .'." " Iu' Fl,
> ie The t-tlr- AMI the murder sc'g" come
O." clos" tg ih"r nNi u. ~oH'ih"'.f - raf,'
.~ir l. n d.:r' that n" nn;s My an0nG 81
lpIugnf Ia an writers 4 m. day N"r'mf
has niecNt u con- ns"r> ih'r O., s'r'ng'y '.|
la. N" ~rlayurCAts lase a." WAS. % i'',r.
ieOnravH.lo SIin' III ana MascaEur It's by asi.h.
living raNsionHt human ing, NIX ny Lri'
n1. =, ms u.s., ,ir'4 i, % W. r., . Is 5, n" high s5%'a 9-f' T.,
To- i..r ~ RS 4 these men. hdS,agb has ( n"
back % the q tet s'yl~ N his i"rthnnnI-g ror