Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-09-16

cation, has found "the right road"
under the guidance of Jean de Reszke
Mr.. Guardabassi Is now a tenor, and
will IN future sing nothing lower,
Somebody was bound to do It. A
new song entitled. TEDDY, Our Hats
on TO You" based on the presidents
successful efforts for peace, has been
lnterpolated into The Sleeping Beauty
and the Beast" current in New York.
Caruso. the tenor. is having con-
structcd near Florence, Italy, a mag
nifcent villa. for which he has drawn
all the plans himself II is his inten-
ton to permanently install his family
there, as the older Of this two boys Is
now years OF age, and win soon need
schooling.
In Paris. Sovard's new work The
Forest" il to be done at the Grand
OPERA "The Forest" Is not an opera
in the ordinary sense Of the word, but
rather 'melodrama' with music. The
characters are trees, an oak, cypress
willow, etc, who do not sing, but de-
claim the text to musical accompani-
ment.
Clementue de We're, who Is stIll IN
England has been engaged to sing IN
"rhe Damnatiou tof Faust at the
Sheffield festival In October, under the
direction OF Herr WeInRartner Her
other engagements include Blackpool,
Bristol. Edinburgh CThe MesslahD
and a re-engagement with the Moody
Manners opera company.
The Germana are going to beat the
English IN the one thing In which Lon
don has claimed prominence For the
contest OF singing societies to be held
at Frankfurt In 1907. a hall Is TO be
built which will have room for $4,000
seats. II will be the largest hall in
Germany. larger even than the Glas-
uolast I'm Munich. The cost OF building
II Is estimated at over $4,000
Helen Marvin has been engaged by
Henry w. Savage FOR the role OF Ma
triccula In the new John Kendrick
Bangs Manuel Klein opera, which Is as
yet unnamed The new opera Is tho
Grst ibretto Mr., Bangs has given the
stage The plot is decidedly original,
dealing with life In the year 29O6 Hen
~ W. Savage will give the new work a
production early IN October
As n youth, Maxim Gorky, the Rus
sian author, possessed tenor voice or
much charm, and he had well-ground-
ed hopes OF making a name and fortune
on the operate stage, But one night
the house IN which he slept was struck
by a cyclone, and Gorky was caught
up IN 10 and thrown some distance.
When he recovered from his injuries
he found that his singing voice had
disappeared.
The l5Oh birthday Of Mozart viii be
celebrated In fitting style az Salzburg
next year. The Austrian emperor Is
greatly Interested I'm the impending
festivities, and besides contributing 20
600 dronen 10 the Moglrteum fund, he
has also ordered that the entire Wen
ma Royal opera troupe be sent to Salz-
burg at his expense and 10 give two
model performances there Of Mozart
operas.
Jan Kubellk viii bring to America
this season three valuable vollins-
one Stradvarius and two Guareras.
The former Is valued at $4,000 ana the
others at $4,000. Sentiment and assoc
citation have much 10 do with Kube-
INKS fondness for his vlollns. The
stradlvarius was presented 20 him by
Emperor Franz Josef 81 Austria, one
~ the Guareras was q gift from
friends in Prague and the other he
purchased with the first $4,000 he
earned on the concert stage.
Not only are saint-saeus, PuccIul.
Lcrouy. Mascagnl and some others
writing now operas. hut also Massonet.
as will be seen from the following
Hans Gregor, director Of the new Op-
era Comique, Berlin, has asked Mr..