The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-08-21
PLANS or NEW OPERA SEASON.
no BEGIN ON NOV. % AND LAST
FOR FIFTEEN WEEKS.
Ernesto Caruso tho Most Noted OF tmo
New slngers--"Parstfal" to Have 10
Performances, which WIN he Extra
10 the Observation-Disclosures Planned.

New SlnKere-'WuFsWAF w "@'V Nv
Performances, which WIN he Extra
10 the Observation-Disclosures Planned.
Heinrich Conried made public yester-
day the plans for the first season OF opera
under his control at the Metropolitan opera
House. The season viii open on Nov. ~
and continue for fifteen weeks. Ten per-
formances, instead OF the usual twenty,
will be given in Philadelphia, and tour OF
five weeks, including Boston, Chicago,
Pittsburg and Cincinnati, will follow the
New York season.
There will be four regular subscription
performances week, on Monday, Wednes-
day and Friday evenings and on Saturday
afternoon. In addition there will be popu-
lar price performance on Saturday night.
aParsifal," which Is to be sung for the
first time on Dec. "a, will be given on ten
Thursday evenings and will be outside
the subscription. Seats will cost $40 In
the most expensive parts OF the house.
Subscribers to the opera will be allowed
to retain their seats for one "Parsifal' per-
Torrance and will be able to get their stalls
for 81.
The principal singers OF the company
will be Ernesto Caruso the Italian tenor;
Ernest Krauss. the leading tenor OF the
Berlin Royal Opera House, who sang hero
five years ago with the Walter Damrosch
Opera Company; Franz Naral, viennese
tenor, who Is to sing tho lyric roles in the
French repertoire; Andreas DIPPED and
Alloys Burgstaller who are to alternate
in 'Parsifal." and jacques Bars The
ba,ytones are Anton Van Rooy, Giuseppe
Campanari. Antonio Scott and Otto Goritz,
a Wagner singer, who has been for some
years at the Stadt Theatre, Hamburg
The BASES are Pol Plancon and Robert
Blass
The sopranos are Marcella Sembrioh,
Emma Calve. Milka Ternina, johanna
Gadski. Alma Ackte, Camille seygard.
Fanchon Thompson and Lillian Heidel-
bach. The contraltos are all American
singers and include Louise Homer, Edith
Walker. who has been the first contralto
Mt the Imperial Opera House In Vienna,
Josephine Jacoby and Marcia Van Dresser.
The conductors Of the Wagner operas
are W. Felix Motif and Alfred Hertz. The
Italian operas will probably be under the
direction OF Antonio vigna. the conduo-
tor at Monte Carlo and La Scala. Nahan
Frankie is to conduct the ballots. and
Gustav Hinrichs is also to be ono Of the
Among the REVEALS Of the season will
be Donizetti's -L'Elsir d Amore, for Nine,
Sembrich and NJ. Caruso; LES Dragons
de Villars," by Maillart, for Nine. Calve;
-Ia Gioconda" Of Ponchielli, for Nine.
Ternina and Smetana's "The Battered
Bride" which is to be sung in English.
There will be two ballots revived, Delibes' 9
Sylvia" ard Bayer's Die Pupperfee."
Mr. Conrisd told something Of his strug-
giles to perform -parsifal,"
After / had been attacked In every way
by Nine. Wagner. who tried to prevent the
artists from appearing in the performance,
replied that would give up my plan In
case all the court opera houses Of Germany,
as well as the managers Of the other large
| opera houses in Europe, should promise not
to perform 'Parsifar after 1913, when the
opera will be free, but to lease it exclusively
| for Bayreuth They will then be in ex-
actly the same position am now Every
single manager declined to accede TO that
| proposition and said he intended to pro-
duce 'Parsifap the minute the copyright
expired.
| and orchestra Of 'Parsifal.' left IL an open
question in our contract whether he is to
conduct the performances or not. He
| thinks and says that Mr.. Hertz can conduct
them az well as he. But it may be that
Nine. Wagner will request him to do SO at
| the last minute.
New costumes were designed for me
! by Prof n Loeffler of Vienna, and new
scenery has been painted for the opera.
! Anton Fuchs, the stage manager who
| originally mounted ParsifaP in Munich
for the nine performances given for King
Ludwig, is to be the stage manager
"The artists to take part in 'Parsifal >
Nine. Ternina and NM Burgstaller. Van
| Rooy, Goritz and Blass, have all taken part
in the production at Bayreuth.'
Mr. Conried has increased the orchestra
to ninety-one players, and the chorus will
be larger by fifty than it ever was before