New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-12-20
MUSICAL NOTES.
'ParafaT Week-KneiseI Quartet
The Calendar.

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sunday-Metropolitan Opera House. $50 p. m, con-
Arturo Vi GRa: Carnegie Hail. p Conc concert
BY the To- smPhSn on st ur F6G
Theatre SIS P. m. concert by the New-York
Symphony Orchestra.
opera. La Boheme' West End Theatre. 8;15
Waldorf-Astoria, HIS a, m. Mr.. Bagbys Musical
Morning; West End Theatre. S15 p m' grand
opera in English, 'Othelo.'
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Hall. s:15 p. m, concert of
chamber music by the Kneisel Quartet; Cooper
west HH End nd Theatre. SIS p M opera in English
Carmen"
wednesday-M metropolitan Opera House. p, m.
Italian opera, La Traviata"; West End Theatre.
and s:l5 p m, opera in Engs1h aft t on
p. eii lecture yet on aFsa by Il E KTehbie
Thursday-Metropolitan Opera HOUSE, p. m, first
Theatre Sis p m, opera in English "otheo.%
oPera r aOTSe p Italian
opera in English. Carmen"
saturday-MetropOlitan Opera House, p; m, Ger
man 9PsT and R Pag dfaan d9
Sfohn H M e recital na q nss 99 mgs nG
aothello"
This is "Parsfal" week at the Metropolitan Opera
House. On Christmas Eve after close upon three
months of preparation. the music drama will be
produced here for the first time in America. The
artists chosen by Mr. Conried to interpret the lead
ing characters those best suited to their tasks
Some of them like Nine. Ternina, Mr. BurgstaIIer
and Mr. Van Rooy. have already impersonated the
parts allotted to them the boards of the Bay
reuth Festival Playhouse, under the eye of Nine.
Wagner. Others. like Mr.. Goritz, have studied in
the Bayreuth school, while Mr.. Fuchs the stage
director. has for the last twenty years or more
been identified with every performance Of the work.
In Mr.. Alfred Hertz, who has had charge of the
music rehearsals and who will direct the public
performances of "Parsifal." the Metropolitan Opera
House possesses one Of the most able OF Wagnerian
conductors. The technical conductor, Carl Lauten-
schager, who has rebuilt the Metropolitan stage
and devised the electric light effects for the pro-
duction has no rival in his own field in Europe.
The scenery and costumes have been made
pressly in Vienna while the choruses and the hgu-
rantcs who will take part in the performances have
for many weeks been training. To insure the artis-
tic condolences Of the production. Mime. Louise
Homer following the example set at Bayreuth by
Nine Schumann- Heink, has undertaken TO sing a
few hars heard in one Of the most solemn episodes
in the Temple of the Grail With equal devotion.
Adolf Muhlmann has assumed the minor part OF
the Second knight. . ~,
As already announced. the performance, viii will be,
nav ma be assumed that those who go to the Metro
headed by King Edward and queen Alexandra did
last summer at the performances OF the N d+
act Which may be expected to end about z there
W ef al The second act viii begin at 8 and it
has now been ascertained by the scenic rehearsals
ner will be served in the ntermission in the foyer.
the Interests f Of art an1 IST h has
those attending the performances to be IN their
is at his desk positively no one will be admitted to
CAST FOR ':PARsIFAL"
Mime. Milka Ternina
Persal. AiOts RlrgsIaIer
GurnemanE Robert Blass
T1tureI Marcel Gourmet
WhS viii make his dst appearances in this
paTt)
Second esquire Brands
Third Esquire. HeisS
E E, Kn 6S% Of the Mr. Baver
Second scsf Kgisnf f' Of the Grail Adolf Muhimann
The Flower Madens-Mmes verndorf BoutOn Braendie.
Glare. Cleyinser. Curtis. Delsarta Elliot Foernsen.
EIankiR ossRE Harris Ha16s P 6eae9sSb Ho
Ritohie. scherhey schramm Siersdorfer. Strebel.
Conductor. Alfred Hertz.
Stage manager. Anton Fuchs
ton under the supervision OF Heinrich Conrisd
The repertory for Christmas week will include
La Boheme" with Mines Sembrich and Camille
seygard Messrs. Caruso. Campanar. Gourmet. Du-
friche and Rossi Monday; La Traviata," with
Mime. Sembrich. Messrs Caruso and Scott on
Wednesday; Aida" on Christmas night, with
and Pol PIancon; "Tannhauser." on Saturday az
ternoon, with Mines, Ternina and FTemstad.
and at the popular Saturday evening performances
Cavaliers Rusticana," with p Mines, Gadsld and
by "Pagliacci," with Nine Seygard as Media Mr.
Rars as Canio and Mr.. Scott as Tonic. Nine Sey-
gard win make her first appearance this season.
after a dangerous Illness as Musetta In La
Boheme"
The programme for to-nights concert at the
METROPOLITAN Opera House will be under the drec-
ton of Arturo Vigna The sololsts will be Nine.
Louise Homer Miss Marion Weed. Pol Plancon
and Mr. Guardabassi. Goldmark's overture to
-SakuntaIa" Massenet's Scenes Pittoresques.' the
bacchanaIe from Samson ct Dalila" and the
ture to LA Gazza Ladra' are promised for the