Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1904-03-11
GRAND OPERA AT TOLEDO
Three Operas Booked at the VAL
entine,


The management takes pleasure in
calling attention to the coming opera
Festival that is to be given at the
Valentine. Toledo on Friday and Sat |
lurday. March 18th and 10th, by Henry
IW. Savage's famous English Grand
IOpera company and full grand opera
Iorchestra of forty musicians. This
Igreat organization with it's eight years
of unprecedented success in this coun-
TRY, stands for the best that has ever
been attempted along the line of splen-
Ibid productions of the works of the
master composers in the vernacular.
This season the organization has
taken n higher rank than ever before,
as shown by its recent festivals of
opera in New York, Boston and Chi
cago. with it's fine corps of princi-
Ipals, including score of primma don
mas. tenors, baritones and basses,
many of them being heard for the first
Ilime in America, assisted by a SUI
Iperb all-American chorus absolutely
unrivaled even by that of the Metro
Ipolitan Opera House in New York, and
a competent full grand opera orches-
ira. under the direction of the Cheva-
| lier Emanuel and Elliott Schenck, the
Wagnerian conductor, Mr.. Savage has
placed his company on basis that
makes it the greatest of its kind.
No better evidence of the standing
of the organization can be cited than
its fine repertoire, which included
fourteen operas, as follows:
Wagner's "Lohengrin" and Tam
hauser," "Verdi's Othello," I'll Trova
tore and aida" Gounds Faust"
and Romeo and Juliet" Puccinas
"Tosca" and LA Boheme" Bizet's
Carmen Donizetti's Lucia di Lam
mermoor," Mascagni's "Cavalleria
Rusticanna" F1otow's Martha" and
IBalfe's bohemian Girl
Each of these masterpieces were
given a special scenic production this
year and were produced under the
technical stage direction of Herr
Joseph Engel, direct from The Imper-
al Opera House at Strasburg.
Three of the most popular operas
in the repertoire will be given during
the coming festival including prob
ably WagonerF "Lohengrin," Verdi's
I'll Torvatore,' Bizart's Carmen"
or Balfe's bohemian Girl"
The company travels in it's own
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the operas in the city with the same
elaborate settings employed in New
York.
AS now constituted Mr.. Savage's or
ganization contains the best English
inging artists on the American stage
There is a triple cast for each opera
made up from the following:
Prima Donna Sopranos-Jean Lane
RrOD1Ee Tpl-1o Farm E1prop1a
bert, Antonette La Brun, Gertrude
Rennyson.
Prima Donna Contraltos-Marian
Ivell, Nellie James. Norma MacGahan,
Rita Newman.
Tenors-Chas. Fulton, Pietro Che
rardi, Wm A Wegener, Jos. Shehan
Baritones - Winfred Golf, Robt.
Lawrence, Remi Marsano. Maurice
Stonehill
Basses - Harrison w. Bennett,
Francis J. Boyle Richard Jones, Burt
Mckinney
Out of the list of fourteen operas
that have been produced this year
Mr.. Savage has selected for the To-
ledo opera festival three of his most
elaborate productions. These also
constitute three of the most popular
and best loved works in the entire
range Of grand opera literature. The
dates of the performances will be as
follows:
Friday evening, March 1S-ver-
dis melodic masterpiece, "n Trova-
tore" complete, including the great
"Anvil Chorus" duets, arias, famous
Tower Scene" gypsy camp and all
Saturday matinee, March 19-Bi-
zet's brilliant Spanish opera, Gar
men," with an elaborate scenic pro-
duction and all of its famous musical
numbers complete. This opera will
: afford an opportunity to hear the
great contralto Marion Ivell, in the
role of the cigarette girl, part in
which she is said to be second only to
the great Calve.
Saturday evening, March 19-Wag-
ner's greatest and sublime tone drama,
''Lohengrin," with its beautiful "Swan
Song" "Elsa's Prayer" the famous
Wedding March," that every school
girl has learned by heart, and all Its
sonorous melodies, making it the
most popular of all German operas.
i. Mr.. Savage's splendid organization Is
larger than ever this year, containing
q 110 artists and an orchestra of thirty
: musicians under Conductors Chevalier
~. d. hHdnuel ana MI. Dllot Scnenck
the Wagnerian conductor. The grea
chorus and stage productions are un
der the technical direction of Her
Joseph Engel, from the Imperial Opera
House in Strasburg.
Seats will be placed on sale at thu
box office Tuesday morning, Marcel
10, prices being SOC. 75c, $10O, $1.5l
and $500. Mail orders accompanied
by remittance and stamped envelop,
will be filled in order of receipt Or
account of the great demand for seatl
already received, orders from outside
cities should be placed at once.
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