The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-10-04

ever have better opportunity for sue
cess than IN "LOvey Mary
"Sieur de Yiergy." the French comic
opera which Fischer & Reilly are
shortly 10 import, viii make its first
appearance in English under the name
of Gabrielle" which viii be 2 decided
/ ly more convenient morsel for Anglo
Saxon tongues IL is said the play is
to be given as elaborate and realistic
a production as any serious Spectacular
Crama. and that it Will be a decided
departure i'm plot and incident from
anything yet seen i'm this country.
( When John Philip Sousa plays a es-
/ lection not his own there are two
| Things Of which we may feel assured:
/ The composition mus thave unusual
merit and VIII assuredly become pOpu-
/ lar. S0usa has a magnetism which
1 renders his leading almost hypnotic
: He frances his musicians into doing
( their very best work and he en-
frances the audience by the magnificent
results attained. Consequently How
/ ard Whitney, whose novelty, a Lucky
/ Duck Sousa has promised to play,
! and Richard earle, whose "Tendertoot
I Selections viii be programmed at the
Sousa concerts. are both to be con-
! graduated upon the master leaders
choice Of their work.
Reginal De Koven, whose latest OPP
era. "Red Feather" with libretto by
/ Charles Klein and lyrics by Charles
/ Emerson Cook. is to be produced at
the Lyric theatre. New York, in the
late autumn. believes that the time Is
ripe for a return to real comic opera,
without the horse play and nonsense
] into which that form of theatrical en-
| treatment has fallen ia recent years
cat any rate" said Mr.. De KoVen re-
Gently. lin preparing the score or Red
Feather L have aimed to combine ma
SIC Of digniGe5 quality with music of
a more catchy variety. If I were TO
attempt a terse description of what ]
/ have tried to produce I should cali
the new opera Robin Hood with a
! 'FlorOdOra' attachment I hope that
the score win be found in line with the
libretto by Mr. Klein. which I regard
as a fine piece of stage construction.
with story containing a good deal
of genuine human interest That is, I
! think that those who attend the per
formance will feel that they might
have done just as the stage persOnages
do if they had been placed in similar
1 surroundings. Mr.. Cooks lyrics. too,
are extremely clever. They contain
ideas. and are executed with skill and
dnesse. It is real pleasure to illus
trate musieaHy such verse as Mr.. Cook
has supplied"
Umberto Giordano's three-act lyrical
opera. Fedora 80 was produced for the
first time in Berlin recently and scored
quite marked success The COrre-
spondent for the London Era says that
the new work is very pleasing. and far
more likely TO become popular in the
best sense OF the word that the SAM
composers other recent work "Mala
| Vita" Fedora" as may be imagined.
is drawn from Sardous drama of the
same name, but the writer OF the book
of the opera. Arturo Colanti, has eX-
ercised his own Imagination in making
use Of the original plot.
A curious investigation has been go
ing on in France and Germany. It was
nothing less than to discover the origin
of the hand organ; that miserable de-
strOYer of human nerves and the de-
light of the children Of the slums OF