The age-herald., 1901-08-20
NM/OMAN
 WV and SOCIETY
Great Opera Singers.

Unusual interest is attached to Mir. Grau's plans for the coming season, since so many of the leading cities in tho south are to have from two to three nights of grand opera. The New York papers are printing the list of opera sing CTS for the season. recent article glv- ing the following details:
 Maurice Grau's list of opera singers for the season 19O1-1902 will read about in this fashion:
 soprano-Calve, Flames. sembrich, Ter nina, Gadsli sybil sanderson, suzanna Adams, ReusslBelce. Scheff
 Contralto-schumann Heink, Homer, Bridewell. Bauermester
 Tenor-Van Dyck Alvarez, Dippel, De Marchi, Gilbert, Salignac, Leclery. Reiss,
 Baritone and Bass-van Rooy. Bispham, campanari, seotti Gilbert, Muhlmann. Tavecchia, Plancon. Edouard de Reszke, Blass, Journet, Dufriche.
 Conductors-D -Damrosch, Seppilli, Flon
 Of these, few are newcomers Mme Reuss-B Belce, who will sing Gutrune in "Gotterdammerung'' and other roles taken last year by Miss Susan Strong halls from Bayreuth and Wiesbaden Last year she was at Covent Garden. Of the tenors. Clement de Marchi was at the Academy of Music in 1896, as Rhadames in Aida" with Mapleson's company. but has never sung att the Metropolitan op- era House Ress is a German who VIII be the Mime in "Rheingold" and Sleg- fr,ed'. as he was at Covent Garden this summer Leclery and Gilbert are minor French tenors, Tavecchia, the new buf1o' hai,s from the Royal Opera House, Mad rid. and recently appeared in Berlin with l Mime. Sembrich.
 The rest are familiar, though several 1 have not sung in New York for season or two. Flames and Calve spent most or | last winter in rest and recuperation rom i'll health Sembrich had brief malady of the throat last spring, after a success full tour to San Francisco at the head or her own opera troupe, Melba being the colorature soprano of MT. Grau's New York company. Sybil Sanderson has been at the Metropolitan only one season, that of 1S94-95. Seldom has any new singer created the anticipatory talk that fore
 
 prano was not in good health, however, and she achieved a mild but distinct fail ure.
 Ternina, who will be with MT. Grau's troupe only for the New York season, and whose engagement is still a little less than positive was an admired member of the company last year and the year before. Gadski, Adams, Breval and Scheff were all here last season, and thus the | list of ten sopranos is completed. Schumann-Heink, Louise Homer and | Carrie Bridewell all helped in last years doings, and so did Miss Bauermeister, who Is a hardy annual Van Dyck, Dip pei and Salignac were of Mir Grau's tenor group last season. Albert Alvarez came here from the Paris opera in the late autumn of 1899, and returned thither three of four months later, without hay ing quite reached the popular heart, ex- | cept in Boston.
 | Anton Van Rooy. he of the noble and ample tone, spent last winter in Europe. l and Theodore Bertram was an unsatis- factory substitute as Wotan and Hans
 Sachs. Van Rooy will sing Vanderdeck- | en in "The Flying Duchman next win l ter, besides the roles he has already
 made familiar. The rest of the bass and
 baritone group, which is to be very strong during the coming season, are all well known to local operagoers