Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-10
HERR C0MRIED PLANS
LONG OPERA SEASON
ANNOUNCES LIST OF HIS NEW
STARS
Program Has Been Mapped Out for
Twenty Weeks and Many Brill
liant Singers VIII Be
Heard

| NEW YORK, Sept 9.-The plans OF
Heinrich Conried for the coming season
of the Metropolitan opera house have been
made public Mr.. Conried is now at
Heiden, Switzerland, on his health seeking
tour. and he is greatly improved.
Mr.. Conried will sail for this city Octo-
Der on the Kronprinzessin Cecillie, Tne
season at the opera opens Monday night,
November 1S, and will be the longest ever
given at the Metropolitan. There will be
twenty weeks of opera. Mr.. Conried hopes
to add interest to the Sunday night con-
certs by producing several oratorios that
have never been given before in this
country.
A remarkable array of artists has been
engaged. Among the sopranos are Bessie
Abbott, Lima Cavalliere. Emma Eames,
Geraldine Farrar, Marcella Sembrich, Rita
lie Fornia, Olive Fremstad, Johanna
Gadski, Anne Girard, Martha Leffier
Buschard, Lucille Lawrence, Lucy Lee
Call, Marie Hatfield, Bertha Morena,
Marie Rappold and Marion Weed.
The mezzo soranos and contralto parts
will be sung by Louise Homer, Josephine
Jacoby. Freda Langendorff and Nine.
Kirby -Lunn-
The list of tenors includes Julius Bayer,
Alessandro Bonci, Alois Burgstaller, Carl
Heinrich Knote, George Lucas Riccardo
Martin, Giovanni Paroli, Albert Reiss,
Charles Roussell and Giuseppe Tecchi.
For the baritone parts Bernard Begue,
Giuseppe Campanari, Eugene Dufriche,
Otto Goritz, Adolph Muehlmann, Antonio
Scotti, Frank Stiner, Riccardo Stracciari
and Anton Van Rooy have been engaged.
In basso roles will appear Raffaele Bar
rocchi, Robert Blass Theodore Chaliapine.
NEo rcaI ro,,rpat Uifforfo Npvprinf and Pol
Plancon.
Alfred Hertz, s. Bovy. Rodolfo Ferrari
and Gustav Mahler will be the conductors.
A New Star from Munich
The principal newcomer among the So
pranos will be Bertha Morena, the dra-
matte soprano from Munich, who has been
prevented from coming here previously
through illness. She has entirely recov-
cred her health and has been singing with
great success recently at the Wagner fes-
tival in Munich. Miss Morena has all the
Wagner operas In her repertoire, as well
as 'Fidelo" and several operas In Italian
Martha LETTER Buschard, dramatic
soprano from the Berlin opera house, will
not be heard until the latter part of the
season. She has been able to secure only |
a short leave of absence. Rita le Fornia, |
who has been studying two years with
Jean de Reszke, will be heard in light |
soprano roles, and Anne Girard will prac-
tically take the place of Miss Baurmeis-
ter.
The array of tenors is the strongest
that ever has been assembled at the Met
ropolitan. For the German operas Helm
rich Knote will return for the first two
months of the season and will then be
by Carl Burrian, while Alois
will join the company at the
end Of December and will remain until
the end of the season. Enrico Caruso will
return for the entire season, as will ALL
Bonci. George Lucas, who has
been singing first tenor roles at the Paris |
opera and at Nice, will take the roles |
intrusted TO Jacques Bars, in ad- |
italian operas In his repertoire. Mr.. Con-
ried has also engaged Riccardo Martin, a
young American tenor.
A Russian Basso to Come
with the addition of Giuseppe Cam
panari the list of baritones will be the |
same as last year.
Among the bassi the interest will CEN
ter in Theodore Chaliapine, the Russian,
who has created sensation in Paris and
Monte Carlo. He will make his debut in |
his extraordinary performance of "Mefis-
tofole." Pol Plancon has again been pre-
vailed upon to come to America for the
last three months OF the season. Raffaele |
Barrochio will take the place of the late
Archanglo Rossi.
The italian repertoire will be in the
hands of Rodolfo Ferrari of Rome, one
Of the best known Italian conductors.
Special attention has been paid TO
the selection of the chorus, which last
season was an entirely new organiza-
tion. Only the best members have been
retained and all the vacncies have been
filled from the finest singers available.
In addition to the usual ballet. an
aerial ballet, like the one that con-
tributed so largely to the success of |
"The Damnation of Faust" last season,
has been engaged for the entire season |
and will take part in several operas
The New Productions
Among the new productions for next |
season will be Iris" by Mascagni. in |
which the principal roles Will be sung