The Savannah morning news., 1902-11-16

! Opera at Covent Garden, London, four
seasons; in the Imperial opera at St.
Petersburg, at the especial request of
the Emperor. He has been in America
six times. the last four as the leading
German tenor with the Metropolitan
Opera Company, where he has sung the
Wagnerian roles. which he studied with
Hans Richter in Vienna. His versa
tility and linguistic facility are re-
markable: his voice lends itself as read
lily to lyric as dramatic music, and he
sings ninety-seven different roles in
seventy-six different operas. He is
equally familiar with Mozart, Flotow.
Rossini, Verdi, Cornelius, Meyerbeer.
Lortzng Weber, Beethoven, Wagner,
Auber, Suppe, Strauss, Donizetu Bel
lini. Leoneavallo, Mascagni, Gounod
and Thomas. His repertoire, in fact,
may be said to form a complete por-
trait gallery of operatic literature. He
speaks four languages, and naturally
sings in all of them. For concerts he
commands a list of over a hundred
lieder, fifty arias, and the tenor part
in fifty-eght oratorios, cantatas and
choral works. Since his debut Herr
DIPPED has built a monument to his
own industry by appearing in over l.
200 operate performances and $50 con-
certs. constantly continuing his studies
at the same time for the enlargement of
his repertoire and the perfecting of his
art. Seats on sale: Orchestra, $3.50;
balcony, 81 so and $1.0O; gallery, soc.
Perhaps the daintiest, most musical
and best dressed of all of the English
musical pieces is San Toy" which is
to be seen Tuesday night
San Toy" enjoys the distinction of
being the only play of any description
that ever had three runs on Broadway,
which it did, each successive engage
ment being larger than the preceding.
A pretty little love story is told in
the opera, the scene of which is laid
in China. Yen How mandarin of high
rank, has q very beautiful daughter
named San Toy whom he fears will
be summoned to court at Pekin to be-
come a member of the Emperor's
Amazonian guards. So that this may
be prevented, Yen How DISCUSSES her
as a boy and makes a public state
ment to the effect that he has no
daughter. A young English army of
fcer discovers the secret of the sex of
the young Chinese boy" and, of
course, Immediately falls desperately
in love with her There is also a young
Chinaman, a student, in love with her,
and he spitefully reveals to an officer
of the Emperor's the fact that San Toy
is a girl, and manages to have her
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changed to the superb surroundings
of the Emperor's palace, where San
Toy is brought. She soon wins the
regard of the Emperor. who befriends
her. and she is allowed to wed the
young Englishman. The story is a
very humorous one. and the music is
said to be much superior to any OF
the other recent productions. The COM
pany numbers over siXty-five people,
together with a special orchestra,
which is carried by the company. The
principal parts are distributed as fol-
lows: San Toy. Miss Elgie Bowen:
Yen How. George X. Fortescue: Ii,
Samuel Collins; Capt. Preston. Ho-
bart Smock; Dudley. Miss Nellie
Lynch. and Poppy. Miss Norah Lam
bert. Others are Sarony Lambert, Is
obel Hall, Joseph Canto, Maggie Bany
and a chorus of sixty. Seats ara now
on sale. The prices are: Orchestra,
$3.50; balcony, 81 and 75c. Admission
to balcony. so cents. and gallery 25
cents.