New-York tribune., 1907-12-15
MUSIC.
OPERAS OF A WEEKS END.
Puccini at the Metropolitan.

- ,a5 the hour at the METROPOLITAN
House Yesterday, two Of his operas being
of ons both being heard by audiences that put
.onacity of the great audience room to the
INC sa--,.a the disagreeable weather The opera
tesS af.er,oon was ''Madama Butterfly which
~ .s FIRST representation this season. and en-
E +be services of Miss Farrar, Signor Caruso.
- - scotti Herr Reiss and Herr MuhiInann CT
. season's cast besides number OF others VINO
la' -, signify except for the mere purposes of
oo Is ,an,sIv Miss Lawrence, Kate Pinkerton,
'e c;onor Rarocchi, Yakuside. 1t would be
.eahle thus 70 dispose also Of Miss Josephine
@,hu but the character which she assumed,
or Suzuki is too important TO be left
&c 20 critical consideration Last season Nine
Do,,er by song and action, lifted the part
- 7-st class importance, contributing much
- ~. nathetic atmosphere surrounding the pitiful
.,,e Yesterday Miss Jacoby frequently brought
.s ridiculous INTO such close proximity TO the
.ooents Of pathos that the audience. deeply moved
-s,h sympathy for Miss Farrars affecting imper-
.,na,ion. had much TO do TO restrain its risibles
.-.,soIIv WAS this the case by her explosion Just
,oso,e the self-Tnurder of Cio-Cio-San. when Miss
I-a--ar had wrought upon the emotions of the
s,ence 70 such an extent that the lachrymal
saoaes+es were already opening. A moment later
,,ov hurst and the torrents came; but scarcely
less pathetic TO the observer was the preceding
.-r,rrle against the sense of the ridiculous which
,,uA Jacoby challenged by her absurd hoo-hooing.
1rb,ouehcut the play her movements and poses
t5 the angularity and wooden expressiveness
Of a manikin- pity that so beautiful voice
t,,,s he so dramatically inutile as hers
an .bst was said last February of Miss Farrar's s
-forr,snce in the titular character of the part
nav be repeated with enlphasis-the emphasis chal-
1.nred by the fact that in the interim she mas
,o.rned some thing-though not yet enoush-of the
,,,e of moderation and repose. Erratic behavior
.,rl interferes with the perfect realization OF a
...u,iful ideal There is no reason why she
ebouId roll around the stage SO much EFen d
1.nenese woman be conceived OF as stanolllS
ON her feet when not called on by the situation 10
he moving about the scene. ana when on her
.ss+ she need not always appear 10 be IN
-. eze nf q camera. Yesterday Miss Farrar COM
neIled her maid to do the principal act IN uhe
,ipil she seating herself upon Suzukls cusihoi'
hut this may have been due TO physical WEAKNESS
e,a not to a whimsicaIty. For the rest unquali-
eed admiration was challenged by her marvellous
bIan6ng of speech and song. the delightfully."- natu-
raj manner in which her voice was made to hoa'
m the orchestral current end the raVlShlns Idil-
ner in which, when not strained by the acu'e
tones, il blended with the harnonies OF tne OF
cbestra The truthful pathos Of her defamation
the elasticity Of her vocal infections her beauu-
fully graduated exhibition of growth from a man ;
willing plaything into tragic womanhooo were an
thrice admirable and made the merely glorious voice
of Caruso sink into insignihcance in comparison
The opera in the evening was La bonenle'
which had already had two representations this
season Last night its chief charm, outside OF It's
roIlicking illustration of bohemian lie IN farlS
half a century ago. lay IN the lovely juxtaposition
of the voices and the art OF Nine. Sembrich and
Eignor Bonci
At the Manhattan Opera House yesterday the
operas were la Navarraise" and "Pagliacci' in
the afternoon. and La Gioco1da" in the evening
The last opera had had several representations TINS
season with Nine. Nordica in the principal char
acter, which last night was cared for by Nine.
Russ who again disclosed herself as a complete
mistress CT the routins OF her profession
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