The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-07-09
RIVAL OPERAS IN LONDON.
But Few Novelties Brought Out-QueeI
Opera for the Kaiser.

RIVAL OPERAS IN LONDON.
But Few Novelties Brought Out-Queer
Opera for the Kaiser.
Operatic impresarios have not gained
much In the matter of repertoire during
the past year. None OF the new works
produced seems likely to hold permanent
place.
London has this year had double season
OF opera One set Of performances Is given
at the Waldorf Theater. There the one act
opera "Fiorella,' by Amhurst Weber,
the pianist, and formerly the accompanist
for Jean de Reszke, has been sung and
received very amiably.
1t was originally intended that this one
act piece should be given at the private
theater OF Jean de Reszke at his home in
Paris. He and Edouard de Reszke we're
to sing the principal parts in the little
burlesque melodrama Of love and intrigue
in Venice during the sixteenth century.
The score is said to be vivacious, mod
erately melodious and intensely modern.
Jean de Reszke has frequently sung the
young composers songs in private.
1t il this season at the Shuberts' Waldorf
Theater that is intended to make Alice
Nielsen a popular operate star, and she
has been praised without reserve. Ales-
sandro Bonci has been singing there and
80 has Eleanore de Cisneros, who was
known as Eleanor Broadfoot Of Brookly n
when she was heard at the Metropolitan.
Another feature Of this season is the re-
turn Of Emma Nevada to sing once in la
Ira viata" She had not been heard in
opera in London for eighteen years. A
few words Of rather patronizing comment
were all that her temperance evoked.
Cilea's "Adreana Lecouvreur. which won
success in Italy, was another of the novel;
ties given. Covent Garden is to present
before it closes Lconi's TIE Cat and the
Cherub" and Puccinis Nine. Butter
fly"
Nine Melha ia to have both la Boht me"
and "Tosca but she has handed over the
part of the Japanese heroine to Emmy
Destinn, who has made a profound impress
zion in London again this season. She
failed, however, In Carmen" just as every
woman does when she attempts to replace
Emma Calve in Bizet's opera. The French
singer may not be for all markets. as her
experiences in Germany showed but once
she has been heard and liked, II takes long
time to oblterate the memory of her per-
Torrance.
Selma Kurz, the young colorature soprano
from Vienna, has been singing a varied
line of roles in the Covent Garden perform
ances Beginning as Giidd in "Rgoletto."
abe has sung the Queen in LES Huguenots'
and Elisabeth.
outskirts of Vienna. Her youth was passed
in the direst poverty and she was enabled
to study at the Conservatory only through
the liberality Of friends.
In Vienna she is practically the star Of
the company. Her success in London
not disturbed Nine. Melbas popularity
there leads to the suspicion that she may
not be so remarkable az her Vienna adj
mirers believe.
The season on the Continent has pro-
duced little that promises to hold its own
In the repertoire.
-valhala in Want" is the title Of recent
burlesque of the Nibelungen Ring, which
Otto Neitzel, a noted German writer on
music and composer, has just produced
in Bremen.
All the action Of the travesty, which is
so, turns on the efforts Of the
Nibelung crew to steal from Thor his ham
mer. on which all his might depends. All
the familiar figures from the trilogy appear.
and the dramatic methods Of Wagner as
well as the verbal peculiarities of his text
a;,,on raoi,v successfnI Wa oner;an hur.
iesole to the stage The task has always
fn onita Of defaat in wara and Of her troub,es
,bat nI,ieht he exnected To firm The thouohts
va, w n,'f Pmssi,n neonIe IRON, amusamants
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,hn ionerial Russian 0pera he snectacies
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''T pi ;rr KnrsaEofr who has comnosed
so,,a of tho elaborate ballets given there.
+ o as ;, St wr;ttan new onera called .Mose.
,,as 1ure' The stnry wbich ;s b;ahIv m,elo.
To'.e. is IA 4, pniand an5 reon,,nts
,ha a, ngorts ~ q nobleman to marry bca,,ti-
fmi ma;dan who loves another.
'"' Ait%a,,nh carr;ed off 70 bis cast,e abe
-of,sn . ~ NARY her ahdmctor Who 10
harr,;lv no;snned before the wedd;np oere.
n"np' The hiphly colored score Ia said
to Ia cha ractcristic of Rimski- Korsakoff's
~ s,,. r., ond The ballet music Of which he
;s y n,aster ia regarded IA the most grateful
mt Of tbe music
AZ tho JrpNerial Opera House at Vienna