The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-14
OPERAS AND SINGERS ABROAD.
VAN DICK To NAVE 4 GERMAN
COHPiNI N LONDON.

Milan Not Impressed 10y Richard strauss
Goodness At BaS reuth AneT This
Years Wagner FCstiN al works
snd the singers VINO win Render Them
Ernest Van Dyck Is making a great effort
n Lcnh0n''o succeed as sn impresario and
has accomplishec the difficult task OF col
Letting d strong company Of &c rInan singers
70 appear there in the middle Of winter.
-hich is the height Of the German season.
His season at Drury Lane ia TO begin In
December and it has been decided to add
70 the list of operas already announced the
"Nibelungen Ring" which will be sunG at
least once
One Of the interesting experiments OF the
season will be NJ Van Dvck's attempt to show
Z. that German singers are not altogether
necessary to a successful production Of the
Wagner operas. Eugene Ysaye is to be
one Of the conductors and Eugen de Volta
Of Amsterdam will be in charge at some
If the performances.
Mr.. de Volta is a Dutcbman Of wealth,
is supposed TO be a lawyer n lid begin
life in that profession, He was always
devoted to music, however. and was about
TO enter the operatio profession when his
father died leaving him a large fortune
Ou TIC COINl4llOu lAAdJ w ehOuld ~ OCNOA4C
q professional conductor.
Mr.. de Volta is able to enjoy his inheri-
lance and indulge his passion for con-
Quoting, which he IL said to do remarkably
yell, by continuing TO be a LAWYER by pro-
fession and an amateur in music. He mas
yet to have it said that he is the best lawyer
chat ever conducted an orchestra and the
oest conductor that ever tried a case.
Felix Mottl is not to go to London, as his
duties at Munich make that impossible.
krth,tr NiEfsrh Uin conduit die MaiGfor-
singer
Aino Ackte is to make her inst London
appearance at these performances, singing
Elisabeth. Elsa Br dnnhiIde and Erchcn.
Felia Litvinne. Minnie Mast the lyric singer
from Dresden, and Nine. Bosetti and Nine.
Osborne make up the list Of the principal
women singers.
Among the tenors are Ernest Kraus Of
Berlin, Herold Of Copenhagen, who has
sung in London before; Breitenfeld Of
Cologne and a tenor named Bussard who
comes from Carlsruhe. Theodor Bertram,
Harold Hinckley and Feinhals OF Munich
will make up the list o basses and barytones.
Herr BALM Of Breslau. who is going to
marry n Of the Wagner daughters some
day and IS nov a popular conductor at
Bayreuth, is 70 have charge of some Of the
performances.
Muriel Foster, the beautiful contralto,
r. 10 be married in November and retire
from the stage altogether. She was not
able TO appear in public last season on ac-
count Of her long illness, and she is to sing
but once more in public. This will be in
The Dream Of Gerontius, 4" when it is con-
Quoted by Hans Richter.
Signor Zanatello is once more to be the
leading tenor at the autumn season of
Italian opera at Covent Garden. Nellie
Melba and Kirkby Lunn, who is going to
appear as Carmen. will be other singers
IN the troupe. which is otherwise made up
Of Italian singers. Z
VASTLY Safonof. who has been spending
the sumIner Ia the Caucasus with his family,
will conduct a concert Of the London Sym
Phony Orchestra before he sails for the
United States on October Is.
Richard Strauss conducted two concerts
Of his works at the Milan exposition without
arousing much enthusiasm as a composer or
conductor The audiences were Of good
size, but even the Germans present could
nor awaken any warmth of applause.
Don Juan" was more enjoyed than any
If his compositions and the orchestra under
mis- leadership IN numbers by Beethoven
and Wagner left the hearers cold. He was
The guest an a banquet and Gabriel dan
nunzio delivered an address in his honor.
II was arranged before he went TO Italy
ItlAN CdlonQe snOlI1 Ue performed this
wear both in Turin and Milan. GemmA
3ellincioni will appear in the title role in
Turin and Nine. kruceniska, the Polish
soprano, IN Milan
Richard Strauss will return, to Italy to
conduct these two performances. He is
now at work on "Elektra, " which is to bc his
next opera
Marie Barrientos. the Spanish colorature
scprano with the phenomenal staccato notes.
8 now singing IN Mexico and will go to
Havana later. Emilio de march, has been
Gale Z the greatest tenor that Mexico ever
heard since Iamsgno. He will sing there
all winter. The City NJ Mexico has heard
three different Italian opera companies this
wear
Christine Nilsson, who has recently been
N Italy. has decided TO make her palace in
Stockholm 4 home for aged and INDECENT
singers. She may return TO Paris 10 live.
Il has finally been decided 20 give no
sae.ival at Bayreuth next season. in spite
II the fact that the twenty fifth anniversary
Of "Parsifal" will occur The season at
Bayreuth This year did not end with the
usual pleasant feeling Nine. Wagner even
emitted the final banquet at which all who
had participated in the performances were
accustomed to take part.
Hans Richter left Rayreuth before the
last performance in displeasuro and this
n8O p cnlIlnE e1ects ltlcnter IL SAID to
have quarrelled with Nine. Wagner over
the prominent part given To Herr Biedler.
who rs one of the Wagner so~ns-in-law, in
the distribution Of the operas.
Friends of the Wagner family continue
TO declare that Nine. Wagner and her chill
dren earn nothing out OF The festivals, which
are continued because they are n splendid
advertisement for the Wagner operas, out
Of which her earnings are said 20 be still
more than 500 900 a year. In spite Of the
large sums taken from the sale Of tickets
there Is no possibility Of profit, because the
school for the training OF the singers in
always continued. Whether an annual
testiv al is held or not the school goes on
always and the salaries paid to teachers as
well as the other expenses eat up all that
might be profit from the festivals.
johannes Elmblad. the former singer Of
German opera at the Metropolitan and for
years in high favor at Rayreuth, has be- !
come the stage manager at the opera house
in Leipsic.
Berlin is to have another opera house,
b addition TO the three that already exist
there. It will be called the LOrtzinR, not
because the repertoire will be confined TO
the works of that but to show