The sun., 1903-12-25

Frendscba snf n fa'e b sr'GF Fremsted &C came
in black and wore hat.
| The operatio husbands, headed by the
! dean of the faculty, Prof. Stengel, took to
full evening dress. So did Herr Tauscher-
Gadski and Sidney Homer. Messrs. Dippel,
company began the evening and finished
| 1t In this costume.
BUSINESS SUITS IN THE PARTERRE.
Evening dress was the rule OF the
| orchestra stalls for most Of the men, and
the only exception to this below the galleries
was found in the parterre boxes. There
| ali varieties of afternoon dress from frock
| coats to oolored business suits were seen.
! That was probably intended to serve as
a symbol OF the subscribers boxes in which
the men have presumably plenty OF leisure.
| They changed their dress during the int er-
mission and the horse shoe was spangled
with the customary subscription night.
| shirt fronts. That fashion was adopted
In q measure in the Opera Club box, to which
| ladies' were admitted.
In the parterre boxes there was no change
OF dress on the part of the women, much
to the surprise of the audience, which had
not believed it possible that during the
evening hours hats and high-necked dresses
would again appear in this exclusive part
OF the theatre.
BUFFET DINNER IN THE FOYER.
The first act closed at seven minutes
dinner problem was thus solved with even
less than the expected difficulty. A buffet
dinner. lacking only the aid and comfort
Of alcoholic stimulant, was served in the
foyer to more than seven hundred persons.
1t WAS served moreover to the satisfaction
OF all the diners, who were occupied less
than half an hour in getting all they wanted.
There was little delay in getting to car
riages. and persons who returned to their
homes for dinner or went to the restaurants
~ a
had been secured at Rector y, the Beaux
Arts and Brownies long in advance, and IN
many cases the soup was awaiting the
arrival OF the diners.
SOME sTANDEEs BROUGHT LUNCH.
Only for about forty minutes was the
main door deserted. By 8 O'Clock the
audience had begun to return to the theatre.
Some of the frugal standees in the par
quet had brought lunch with them and
nibbled sandwiches. sitting contentedly
on the floor
At twenty minutes to Q the trumpeters
played the Grail motive to announce
the beginning Of the second act. At thir-
teen minutes to 0 the second act began
The audience was again In it's place in tirns
TO hear the prelude.
OPERA DIRECTORS THANH coHEIED.
The Conried Opera Company passed this
resolution yesterday at a special meeting
called for the purpose:
Resoired. That the board Of directors take
this occasion to put on record their apprecia-
ticn Of Mr. Heinrich Conrieds untiring ei orts
during the past year OF prepgrationland their
aT,istic ABILITY in the ppreseHtetlon OF Grand
opera In New YORK. they also wish to ex-
press Their entire sympathy Sns hearty sup
puts before the music lovers Of this country
50 worthy presentation OF "asner's reat
PRIRsTLY OPINION AFTER AcTI.
To-. fk< ~ the hot ha
public might applaud if it cared to, there
was little demonstration after the first act
The scattered applause, mingled with
Kisses intended for the daring applauders.
was not sufficient to part The curtains
artists should appear before the curtain
under any circun stances.
Father Doyle Of the Paulist Fathers was
asked after the first act his opiaion Of the
performance.
so far az have seen 'Parsifal,' he an
swered. 1T is devoutly reverent.'
STORM OF ENTHUSIASM AFTER ACT II.
After the close of the second act. which
came at 10 o'clock, the audience burst
into a storm OF applause that was not to be
satisfied until the rule was broken and the
artists appeared before the curtain,
Nine. 1ernina and NJ. Burgstaller bowed
and smiled In response to three recalls.
Then they brought out Otto Gortz. The
applause continued until the two principals
brought out Carl Lautenschlaeger. who
built the new stage and made the mechani-
cal contrivanCes for tn Q opera, and Anton
Fuchs, who produced it.
CoSRIEp CALLED OUT.
Then there was more applause, until
Nine. Ternina appeared with Alfred Hertz,
who had prepared the singers and orchestra
and conducted the performance last night.
He was received with particular cordiality.
Before he retired from view the second
M "C0nria1'"
all parts of the house. The noise kept up,
and there were more cries for the new
impresario, Finally he marched in, SOL
dierly fashion, to the centre of the stage,
red curtains to a whirlwind Of applause.
On the stage there was the same en-
thusiasm among the singers.
OPINIONS OF THE SINGERS.
1T must have been splendid per-
formance,' Nine. Ternina said to THE SUN
repo: ter, "for we have all tried to do the ut
most that we could to do justice to the spirit
undone to perform the work as it should
be given. and think that every artist and
every person in the performance has felt
his responsibility TO bring Parsifar to the
New York public in its m ost perfect form
The other artists agreed with the senti-
ment that the representative of kundru
expressed. Ernst Krauss. who has sung
at Bayreuth, and Nine. Gadski, who has also
appeared there, agreed that in many par
ticulars the performance of -Parsifai"
vas equal to the representations at
Bayreuth, and superior to them in
others. Mme Sembrich, who has heard
many performances of "Parsifal" there,
said that MIR. Conried had surpassed Bay
reuth in almost every particular.
LAUREL WREATH TO THE 1MPRRsARIo.
Mr.. Conried heard these compliments
and said that he was more thankful for the
manner in which the audience had received
the work than anything else. The direc-
tors OF the Conried Opera Company pre-
sented to the impresario wreath of laurel
leaves and American beauty roses. 1t
was Ave feet in diameter. The audience
indorsed the sentiment and it was the con-
sensus Of opinion on all sides that while
it was great night for "Parsifal" 1t was
also great night for the new impresario.
CHOIR BOYS SANG AFTER ALL.
Police Inauizitor Came Around 10 Quiz, but
He Didn't Get In.
The boys of the Calvary Church choir
sang, after ALL in the Grail temple scenes.
They had appeared at the dress rehearsal,
but that was a secret not revealed Yes