The San Francisco call., 1905-02-26

the Conried Metropolitan Company to
the Grand Opera-house IN April.
Heinrich Conried is so deeply inter-
ested in the outcome of the San Fran
cisco season that he has already made
his plans to come to the city in ad-
vance Of his organization and to de-
vote his personal energies in the direc-
ton of the performances. AS the In
tendant Of the Metropolitan Opera
house and the president of the Metro
politan Opera Company, Mr.. Conried
has established one fact absolutely
he has invariably carried out his
promises to his clientele. Therefore
when Mr.. Conried promises a grand
opera season that will surpass all other
opera seasons that have gone before
there is the positive evidence of his
New York achievements to prove that
he will do what he says.
The scenic and mechanical equip
ment which the Conried Company will
bring to San Francisco has never been
approached as to extent and magnif-
cence and the great stage of the Grand
Opera-house will afford every oppor-
tunity to Mr.. Conried and his asso-
ciates to live up to their Metropolitan
Opera-house standard.
The repertoire of the company dur
ing the season of twelve performances,
will include three performances
of the Wagnerian music drama, Par
sifal," two performances of Pom
chiellfs La Gioconda," two perform
ances of "Cavalleria Rusdcana" and
"PPagliaccf' and one performance
each of "Rigoletto," Lucia" Die
Meistersinger,' Der Fledermaus" and
Les Huguenots."
Verdfs "Rigoletto," in italian, Is the
offering for the opening night, Thurs
day evening, April 6. with Madame
Sembrich as Gilda, Caruso as II Duca
and Scotti in the title role.
The first performance Of wagner's
great educational festival play, Par
sifal," will begin at o'clock on Fri
day afternoon. April 7, and after the
first act, which will end at GAS
o'clock, there will be an internission
until 8:45 o'clock in the evening.
Madame Nordica will sing the part Of
Kundry and Burgstaller will be the
Parsifal, the others in the cast being
Van Rooy. Blass, Goritz, Reiss Alberti,
Bayer Gredar, and Mesdames Moran,
Braendle and Jacoby. Alfred Herzt
will WELD the baton.
At the Saturday matinee a double
bill will be presented, "Cavalleria Rus
ticana," with Madame de Macchi as
Santuzza, and 'I'Pagliacci," in which
Madame Alien and Caruso will be
heard. Both operas will be sung in
Italian. Saturday evening both Nor
dica and Sembrich will appear in Les
Huguenots," the former as Valentine
and the latter as Marguerite de Valois.
Arturo Vigna will be the conductor.
Monday evening. April 10. Sem
brich and Caruso will sing the leads
in Lucia di Lammermoor' and on
Tuesday the second "ParsifaI' per-
fcrmance will be presented.
Wednesday evening Nordica and
Caruso will be heard in La Gioconda''
and the third 'ParsifaP' performance
will come on Thursday, with Madame
Fremstad as Kundry in place of Nor
dica. This will be matinee perform
ance, beginning at 1880 o'clock in the
morning.
Thursday evenings bill will be Die
Fledermaus,' with Sembrich as Rosa
linde. Nathan Franko will conduct.
Friday evening the double bill Of
'Cavalleria Rustaicana" and PPagli-
acci'' will be repeated.
Die Meistersinger," in German,
with Madame Alten as Eva and Dippel
as Walther, will be sung at the Sat-
urday matinee, April Is, and the sea-
son will close that evening with
repetition of La Gioconda."
Particulars regarding the sale Of
boxes and seats for the entire season
and single performances will be an
nounced in a few days.
In recent years no name has be-
come better known in American music
and artistic circles than that of Henry
w. Savage, the founder of the first
English grand opera company COM
posed of all American voices. the
same that is to make it's San Fran
cisco debut at the Columbia Theater
tomorrow night for a three weeks
season of grand opera In English.
In nine years Mr.. Savage has pro-
duced eighty-one operas in English,
many of them being especially trans
lated for him and sung by his COM
pany alone. AT present he has the
only American productions in English
of the German operas, of Verdfs
"Othello," Puccini's tragic ''Tosca,"
and beautiful La Boheme." and a
number of others. He has given