The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-03-31
UtahnS and Music
Inn New York

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NEW YORK, March 26.-The pres
ent week marked the closing of the
Grand opera season, and viii present
! some notable features. Monday night
Melba made her farewell bow at the
! Manhattan, 1T being her fifteenth and
iast appearance, this season, She sang
- Mimi in "La Bohcme, - and, as
! departing favor. interpolated the mad
scene from Lucia de Lammermoor,
| between the second and third acts,
Bouci was the g Rodolfo.
AT the same house on Wednesday
! evening. Calve Will make her .reappcar-
ance and debut for this season in her
! famous role of Carmen, I'm order TO
come 10 America at all this season.
Madam Cslve was obliged to break her
| contract with the management of the
! Opera Comique IN Paris, and accord
ingly had to pay the regulation bonus
Of six thousand dollars. She viii be
! heard again on Saturday afternoon at
| the Manhattan.
regular season will close on Wednesday,
with the last performance of the "Nibe-
lungen Ring cycle.
! \ post season performance of "Parsi.
| fal' will be given on Good Friday aud
/ the week Will wind up a brilliant con
cert on Sunday evening, given by
number of the leading stars.
The last performance of this season
! Of 'Parsifal was supposed TO have
been the one given on Washington s
birthday, but at that time the demand
| for seats was SO great that requests, ac-
compauied by checks TO the value of
! eight thousand dollars were returned
| from the box Office. So post-season
performance was decided upon and the
entire house has been sold out for three
weeks in advance. Fremstad aud Burg.
staller will sing the roles of kundry
and ParsifaI. Good Friday was chosen
as the date for the opera for the spe-
cial purpose Of emphasizing the solemn
ity Of the work As usual. when this
opera is given. thu Bayreuth "Parsi-
fall customs viii he observed.
Simon BamberGer, of Salt Lake, is
entertaining large box party al the
four nights of Wagner S ''Dic Ring der
| Nibclungen. - The "Ringn was given
two nights last week. and with one
evening between each performance. 1t
is being greatly cnioycd by Mr.. BAN
berger S guests. The four operas in the
cycle are. "Das Rheingold.' - &" Die
| Walllurc.' "Siegfried, - and Gottcr-
dammeruug. and the entire German
contingent Of The Metropolitan staff is
required TO produced them.
Mr. and Mrs. Bamberger and daugh,
Ter Elsa Will return 10 their home in
Salt Lake early in April.
Edwin Milton Royle's "Squaw
Man, is again on the boards in New
York. ] is being played for this week
only, at the New York theater. Will
lam Favershnm and Julie Opp are iu
the cast, as before.
The many Salt Lake friends of Miss
Mabel Robinson viii learn with regret
that she is quite i'll al the Good Samar-
itan hospital. on Fourty.third street,
having been operated upon ten days
ago for appendicitis, Her case was a
severe ono, and she rs progressing as
fovorably as can be expected,
Mr. Lcdyard NJ. Bailey, Of Salt Lake,
is expected in New York this week
from London. During his absence
abroad, Mr., Bailey has Visited PARIS,
Munich, and taken the delightful trip
down the Rhine, AT Munich. Mr., Bailey
visited his neice, Miss JOY Dc Camp of
Boston, who is a student of music in
Munich Miss De Camp Will be well
remembered by the host of friends she
! made IN SHlC LAKE during nor NlslJ
there rs Mrs Ledyard Bailey's guest,
two summers ago.
Mrs. Henry Siegel of Salt Lake. who
has spent the winter in New York AT
the Hotel Savoy, viii leave early next
week for two weeks stay mt Atlantic
City. She leaves the middle Of April
for Salt Lake, and will probaiy spend
the summer there.
Misses Georgiana and Daisy Savage
of Salt Lake are New York visitors for
Easter week.
How it warns the heart in these cold
days TO see an unselfish exhibition Of
honor given where great honor is due!
Such an exhibition was the testimonial
rendered to old Emil Fischer, an opera
star of former glory, mud SAID 10 have
been. twanty five years ago, the finest
bass Oh the stage-in fact, the critics
saw his Hans Sachs in Wagner S
Meistersinger has never been
enualcd Yesterday was the ffty-year
anniversary Of Mr.. Fischer's appear
ance IN opera MI Conried donated the
use of the Metropolitan Opera house,
also several of his artists, including
Schumann Heink, Frcmstad, Gadski,
Burgstaller. etc; and Two hundred prom
inent society leaders managed the affair
and SAW that the house was filed 1t
is safe to say that Il more enthusiastic
crowd has not filed the opera house
. | this year. Several acts OF different