The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-06-25
NEWS OF OPERA IN EUROPE.
Heinrich knOte's Pay at tho Metropolitan
The London season.

Heinrich knOte's Pay at the Metropolitan
The London season.
BY the terms of the contract that Helm
rich Knote made with Mr. Conried he is to
come here next year for forty performances,
! to occupy term OF five months. For each
performance he Ia to receive 81 900, and
for concerts one-half that amount.
During the next season the tenor Is en-
gagged for only fifteen appearances, to 90
cupy space Of two months. Then he
will receive 81, 100 an appearance in opera.
During the season Of loO7-s he will again
sing fifteen times, but receive an advance
of 500, making his cachet 81 200. During
the last season OF his contract, which is
l9Os-e, he will have fifteen appearances at
81 800 each.
There have been tenors In the past that
have received more, but those days will
not come soon again. Jean de Reszke got
81 800 during his last year here, and saved
the season at that. Signor Caruso re-
ceives less than that now but he has
greater number of appearances.
Compared however, with the Munich con-
tract of Herr Knote, his arrangement with
Mr.. Conried Is as gold mine. In the
opera house in which his career was made
he sang for eight months OF the year. His
salary Is to reach finally the sum OF s. 500
year, having begun at $500. In addition,
he receives for every one of his sixty ap-
pearances further fee of SIS. This made
his annual earnings $4,000 in Munich. He
also had leave of absence Of two months
in winter and two in summer.
1Don Pasquale" was revived the other
day at Covent Garden, for the first time in
years. Hermione Bosetti was. of course.
the Norma, as Nine Melba does not sing
the role, nor does Selma Kurz, the other
colorature soprano.
Victor Ma,irel sang Malatestd. He has
had quite a renascence this spring In Lon,
don. Marie Witch has sung Isolde and
made positive her right to be called one Of
the finest German sopranos. She will prob
ably he heard over here soon.
Felia Lit WHINE. who is said to have become
more art lat ic if she is also larger than
when she was here, has been singing in the
performances Of the trilogy at Covent
Garden
Giacomo Puccini has been in London,
where his Madame Butt erfy" is to be
produced this summer. He has admitted to
the reporters that his next opera is to be a
tragedy founded on Victor Hugo's "Notre
Dame" This is the same subject that
inspired Goring Thomas and before him
Campana, who wrote a musical version of
Sgnor Caruso has sung Raou in "The
Huguenots" for the first time in London
in the society of Emmay Dest in as Vd'en-
tine. Selma Kurz as Marguerite and Clarence
il this year more interesting than it has
been in a longtime, as so many new singers
are to be heard there Among them are
some who may find their wayto this country,
although our taste is quite different from
that of the English.
An Ia la nf the NOT ed
women of her day and once an adored
soprano in this country. died the other
day in Paris. She was not unlike our own
Emma Fames. beautiful to see and hear
and rather scornful of feeling.
She was in her prime colleague of such
great women as Pasta. Jenny Lind. Hem
rietta Sontag and Pauline Viardot-Garcia.
and held her own with all of them. She
began her studies in Paris under Bordogni,
but after some tentative appearances
there went to Italy to study under the elder
Lamperti. whose first eminent pupil she
was.
For years she sang in Italy. which was
| then the home of opera after she had sue
cessfully made her debut at Varese. In
! Vienna, where she sang for the first time
| outside of Paris, the revolution of
ls4s closed the theaters just after she had
| begun her engagement; so after waiting
| there for a while she married one OF the
| Counts who even at that time were around
ready to marry any prima donna who was
making enough money. His name was
| Skamwitch.
She was engaged to create the role Of
| Uesdernond in Rossini's ~Otello" and went
to Paris to appear for the first time before
her own people. She was about to become
a mother and was not in condition to sing.
But the production of the opera could not
longer be delayed. Her own people were
cold to her. hut she determined to conquer
them. So she reappeared after her child
was born and met with a great triumph.
She came to this country in the sos and
was great success. making several tours
| here and earning naturally fortune. On
her return TO Europe she sang alternately
! in Madrid and Paris.