The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-08-06


show In the next two weeks, and Manager
Lewis plans to give the season lively
wind-up.
Brandu, the snake charmer. has returned
to the Bostook Animal Show and joins
Bonavita with his lions. Nine. Morelli
and her leopards and the other clever per-
formers, human and animal.
'The Johnstown Flood" and 'New York
to the North Pole" are prospering at either
end OF Surf avenue, Coney Island, and
do not seem to be hurt by the rivalry OF the
larger parks.
NEWS OF THE OPERA SINGERS.
Recruits for tho Metropolitan season
New Operas in Europe.
Eelka Gerster has been telling the Berlin
newspapers that she Is not going to give
up her singing school In the German capital,
but will come to the Loeb School Of Musical
Art here for only ten weeks Of every year.
This will be a great surprise to those per-
sons who thought that Nine. Gerster was
to remain here after her arrival in january.
George Hensohe and Mrs. Hess Burr. the
latter for some years successful teacher In
are to be her assistants here.
Afno Ackte has met Director Conried
and 1t Is settled that she Is not to return to
the Metropolitan next winter. Mr.. Conried
repeated his offer Of fifty appearances,
but there was to be no guarantee as to
when they should come. Nine. Ackte
wanted q guarantee Of ten every month.
That is the point on which the two split.
The Finnish soprano is to sing "Tosca'
In Italian at Helsingfon in September,
with Signor Vigna as conductor. and will
then 60 to the Opera in Paris, where she Is
to sing for most Of the season. In the
early spring she goes to Monte Carlo and
later to Covent Garden. Her tour In Ger
many, where she sang both In French and
was successful.
The Dutch performance Of 'Parsifal'
was repeated, and attracted large audi
ences. Our own Gurnemdns. In the person
Of Robert Blass, was In the cast Felia
Ntvinne sang Kundrv and Herr Forscham-
mer was Parsifdl No critics were ad-
mitted and there was no applause. Nine.
Cosima Wagner is safe for some years to
come In all other European countries than
Holland, as 1t alone Is without the opera
ton Of the copyright law.
It seems settled now that Ernst Won Pos
sart ia to come here and assist in the direc-
ton Of the stage management Of the Metro
politan. He has resigned from the Prince
Regent Thester In Munich and will cease
to have any connection with It's affairs after
the festival of this year.
His daughter, Ernesta Possart, who pre-
fers to call herself Delsarta. has also been
engaged by Mr.. Conried. She sang this
summer at Covent Garden, but without the
success her talents would lead one to ex-
pect. London verdicts are peculiar, how
ever. Possart IL also to act at the Irving
Place Theater.
One Of the singers that Mr.. Conried was
reported to have engaged in Vienna Is not
to come here in, any case until the season
after next. This is Selma Kurz Of the
Imperial Opera House in Vienna, who is
least two years more.
Felix Mottl who will have a much freer
hand in the direction Of the opera per-
formances in Munich after the retirement
OF Herr Won Possart. is still complaining Of
the impossibility Of getting enough good
singers to perform the operas as he wants
them. He did not find much to admire in
the Metropolitan, but he at least had plenty
of singers there Of kind he had never
come into contact with before.
The retirement of Possart was due to
the failure Of the opera house to make as
It ought. Under his regime the ex-
penses grew, with no corresponding in
crease in the receipts. Possart said that
q deficiency had always existed and that
his removal was altogether due to political
intrigue against him;
home in Switzerland, az he expected to.
but is resting at Wildbad Gastein to re-
cover strength before his year Of work as a
composer. He is not to appear in public
for at least another year. Probably he
will play first next spring in London.
marry Lord Richard Neville. whom she
met first during her visit to Australia two
years ago. 1t may be that II was this rumor
that led William Waldorf Aston to pay her
IS 900 for singing four songs at his house.
ton OF the story that she received such
q sum was only In the brain Of her press
Nine. Melba has frequently sung IN New
York for much less, and in London her fee
q, few years ago used to be 1000. Hut
she was not then engaged, to a noble lord.
Mime. Melba is coming back here next
winter to sing in concerts and spend some
time in the Far West.
Nothing in the repertoire OF Covent
Garden has attracted more favorable at
tention this year than the revival Of -Don
Giovanni which had cast much better
than come Of those lately heard there,
1t was by no means up to the
Of former years. Signor Caruso
was the Oudpio and Emmy Destinn Gang
Donna Anna. The tenor Is to be heard
here next year in this opera, but unluckily
there is no chance OF Nine. Destinn being
q member of the company at the Metro
politan for some time to come.
The new dramatic soprano, Berta Morena
who Ia to come here from Munich next
winter, has just made her temperance
after a long illness at the Prinx Regent
In Munich. She Is a woman OF
great beauty.
Edouard de Reszke IL not to come back
here next winter. after all the reports Of his
Intention to make q concert tour. He will
sing in Paris in October and after that Is
70 make the journey through Germany
about which he has been talking for many
years. Formerly he was to make II with
brother Jean, who has now decided to retire
altogether.
One OF his latest pupils is Mabel Gilman,
Who used to sing here In comic opera. Tho
asst two American girls to come into notice
n Europe are two sisters, Clara and Grace
Carroll. One Ia a soprano and the other
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