The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-23
At St. Paul Theaters

An unusually heavy demand for
opera festival seats is expected when
the sale opens tomorrow morning at
the Metropolitan for the first week 8
repertoire of masterpieces to be sung
here in English by Henry w. Savage's
celebrated English singing organiza-
ton. No musical announcement in
months has created quite such lively
interest as that of the return of this
organization for a four weeks stay in
the Twin Cities. Mail orders have
been pouring in from places as far dis
tant as Duluth and Superior on the
north and Rochester, Winona and Man
kato on the south, while the numerous
inquiries in this city give promise of
the largest line of ticket purchasers at
the box office for an engagement this
season since ben Hur's" notable visit.
The repertoire for the first week will
comprise Verdis celebrated "Othello, -
the opera being announced for Mon
day and Friday evenings and at the
Wednesday matinee WagnerS 10
hengrin" will be given on Tuesday and
Thursday evenings and at the Satur-
day matinee, while BiZet'S Carmen" is
to be sung on Wednesday and Saturday
evenings.
These three operas will not only af-
ford an opportunity to hear the tenors,
Joseph Sheehan and Pietro Gherardi;
the soprano, Gertrude Rennyson; the
contralto, Marion well, and the basso,
Francis J. Boyle, leading favorites of
last years company, but also will in
troduce a half dozen new singers inn
ported by Mr.. Savage this year.
One of the choicest announcements
of the engagement is that of Wagner's
world-famed "Parsifal,' to be given in
English as a sacred concert on Sunday
night, April g. instead of Sunday night,
| April 10, as previously announced. The
opportunity to hear a faithful inter-
probation of thisanspired work sung in
English and accompanied by an Or
chestra of forty musicians, at prices
within the reach of all, will undoubt-
eddy attract one of the largest Sunday
evening audiences Of the year to the
Metropolitan.
Louis James and Frederick Warde,
who conspicuously and merftoriously
conserve the tradition of the classic
drama in America, will close their en-
gagement at the Metropolitan with a
matinee today and performance tonight.
The admirers who have seen them i'll
so many of the standard plays have
welcomed them on their return en-
gagement. Wagenhals and Kemper,
who have an established reputation for
the completeness of these scenic pro-
ductions have staged their plays in a
most elaborate manner The bill for
| the matinee will be Julius Caesar,
and for this evening Macbeth
Local theater-goers remembering
with great deal of pleasure the per-
formances of Paul Gilmore in The
Tyranny of Tears" last season, will
welcome the announcement that he Is
to again to appear in st. Paul the lat
| ter half OF this week in the New York
and London success, 1.-THE Mummy and
| the Hurnming Bird" There will be
an extra peri 1rmance of this play Sun
| day evening.
| MeIodran1a is always good for big
weeks business at the Grand and the
attraction this week is no exception.
It is For Her ChildFens Sake" an
other one Of Theodore Kremer,s thrill
| 1ers.
One of Sullivan, Harris & Woods
latest melodramatic ( auctions will
be the attraction at the Grand next
/ week. welded and Parted" is it's
title.
Lovers of vaudeville are being re-
called with the sort of show that ap-
peals to them at the Star this week.
The Irwin company is especially we'll
provided with clever turns that have
been we'll received.