New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-10-01
MUSIC NOTES.
English Grand Opera Season Opens
IN Brooklyn.

Brooklyn is preparing for a season of operatio
| pleasure in the repertory to be presented at the
New NIontauk during the ensuing week by the
Savage English Grand Opera Company. Mr.
Savage has selected a repertory that contains
more popular operas. perhaps than any chosen
! for his Brooklyn seasons in the past two years
For this reason there has been a heavy demand
for all performances, the old italian favorites
promising TO attract audiences equally as large
as the Wagnerian music dramas which have
heretofore maintained the lead. The company
brings elaborate new productions for each or
the six operas which to be shown during
| the week. and there is further interest in the
engagement on account of the many artists
who are TO make their American debut. OF the
singers Of past seasons only few Of the best
known remain. Gertrude Rennyson and Rita
Newman will both be heard. well as Wiufred
! Golf, barytone, and Joseph Sheehan. New prima
donnas will make their first bows TO an Amer
lean audience in each Of the first four perform
ances. These will include Nine. Serena, an
nounced for the title role i'm Aida" the
opening night; Florence Scarborough, dra-
matte soprano who will be first heard in Tam
hauser''. Margaret Crawford, new contralto,
cast for Ortrud in "Lohengrin,' and Millicent
Brennan another dramatic soprano, who will be
heard as the vivaciOus artists model, Musetta-
in Puccinis La Boheme" The entire singing
forces of the company number upward OF one
hundred and fifty people and there VIII he an
orchestra Of fifty musicians under the direction
Of n B Emanuel and Elliot Schenck.
The house for Aida" has been almost entirely
sold out for the opening night and this opera
Will be repeated for the Wednesday matinee.
''Iohengr is 10 be sung Tuesday night. Mr..
Ssya ge's newest production is that of Verdis
tuuefuI "Rigoetto' and this will be given its
first performance in English in Brooklyn on
Wednesday night. 'Tannhauser' comes Thurs
day night and viii be repeated at the Saturday
matinee PucCinis la Bohene' Will be sung
on Friday night. the engagement closing Satur-
day night with Gounods Faust
Nine Emma CaIve has decided that old Irish
and Scotch songs, as well as French chansons,
shall be contained in the group Of folk songs
that VIII form one section Of her programme
when she makes her first concert tour Of
America this autumn. What is specially inter-
esttng about this is that the prima donna In all
Of the years that she sang in opera at the
Metropolitan opera House. scorned TO become
familiar with English. but she has been studying
the language during the last few months, and
these songs. OF course. Calve VIII sing arlas
from Carmen The mad scene from Hamlet
IS also upon her list
When Jan KubeIik returns 10 this country this
snt,,r,n he will bring with him his wife and
their vear-old twins. Attended by a large retinue
of servants brought from the musicians Castle
~ F2vber. in Bohemia this interesting family
win make a hve months journey over the New
World together. Kubelik. his wife and the
din,iputive Kubeliks will make the six months
trip in q private car. The violnists wife Is the