The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-03-10


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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The management of Salt Lakes first
annual musical festival feel highly en-
Outraged at the way the advance SAFE
for tickets has progressed 10 date'
There has been a heavy demand IOI
seats at the Clayton Music company
where the sale is now going on ~ Is
announced that the time for receiving
subscrintions has been extended one
more week. until Saturday March 10
Those desiring to secure season tickets /
at half price Subscription rate) should
act accordingly. Beginning Monday,
March Is. regular prices VIII prevail
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Salt Lake and the surrounding coun-
1rv is soon to taste the long-deferred
vocal rnelodic and passionate orchestral
sweets of Giacomo Puccinfs fascinat-
ing japanese grand opera, Madam
Rutterflv." The work is In three acts
and has proven a sensational success
in Europe and America.
It is the newest contribution by the
composer, who represents all that is
modern and progressive in the Italian
school of grand opera, to the art-activ-
itv of the musical world. The delight |
this David among the composers of
Italy gave this country in the Bohe- |
MANLY frolicsome, yet tender, melo- !
dies of La BOheme," and the passion
swept music of ''Tosca'-both first in
troduced by Mr.. Savage-is not for
gotten.
To Mr.. Savage belongs the credit of
Introducing many remarkable musical |
works TO the English-speaking. think |
ing and singing world. distinctive |
honor with him in grand opera means:
"A first production in America for all |
the English-singing world" To him |
belongs the credit of producing first in
English the following musical art
works. The operas are given in the |
sequence of their productions:
Spinellrs "A Basso Porto"
Puccini's La Boheme."
Puccini's "Tosca."
Verdfs "Othello."
wagner's ''ParsifaI."
Wagner's THE Valkyrie."
Puccini's Madam Butterfly"
OF these productions Puccini has
three TO his credit. This is explained |
IN that Puccini, unlike other modern |
lists of the Italian school. has scored no |
failure. Mascagni and Leoncavallo, on |
the contrary. although representatives !
Of the same school and in the same |
modern movement, have only one sue
cess each 20 their credit, although fair !
iy profuse in producing operas. They |
are either One-WOrk men or, as one /
critic has said, "unripe." For this rea-
son Mr.. Savage selects Puccini as the
safest proposition among them.
II is mainly in the restraint and fin
ish OF his music that Puccini puts men
such as Mascagni and Leoncavallo to
rout. Puccini is as Italian in spirit as /
any Of the three, and yet his peculiar /
refinement removes him, as it were,
into class of his own. Puccini has
qualities in profusion, further and |
deeper power of expression. an even /
more skillful mastery over the orches-
ira and a heightened sense of what is
beautiful in phrase, cadence and har-
mony, than any other modern italian
composer. His Madam Buttergly'' is
the work of a progressive master. 1t is
an exquisite Japanese lacquered mu-
steal tracery in harmonies that are
suave and passionate. Puccini's art is /
that of the musical progressor He is
creative. His sense of melodic fitness
is that Of beauty-the suaVe, beatific
sense. He is gifted with fine magma
ton. back of which lies convincing Sc
renity. His inventive power is extraor-
binary. 1t is exerted in the creation
OF themes that pulsate with tenderness
and passion
Mr.. Savage in his beautiful produc-
ton Of fascinating Madam Butter
fly" has sought to make IL a final and
convincing argument in favor of grand
opera in English. With this object in
view he has gathered a corps Of prima
donnaS possessing the combined gifts
OK youth, beauty and voice. Without
these charms Madam Butterfly would
be no butterfly. In John Luther Longs
novel the dainty little Japanese wife.
Cho-Cho-San, around which theme
Puecini has woven his music, is lust
fifteen years old" She is described as
pretty as a picture on a fan, and she
must sing divinely.
To fit this ideal was no small task.
From far-off Hungary he secured Eliza
Szamosy, then singing Madam Butter
lily at the Royal Hungarian opera,
budapest From Milan, Italy, where
she sang the title role for the composer
al La Scala, he brought Miss RCna
Niyienne. Puccini personally recon-
mended these singers to Mr.. Savage,
casing them as ideal butterflies
iOii lHe opera at CONeHI GarQoH, /
London, he engaged Miss Florence
Easton, fine coloratura singer. The
Royal Opera at Dresden contributed
Miss Estelle Bloomfield. For his Suzu-
HIS the court theatres of Berlin and
Leipslc gave him Miss Harriet Behnee,
splendid mezzo-soprano, and Paris
added Miss Ethel Houston, the contrai-
10: six young. beautiful and accom-
pushed women.
FOR the instrumental Interpretation
o. beautiful tone pictures in this mas
terpiece, Mr. Savage has formed
Grand opera orchestra Of sixty must
s.ahs. the largest carried by a travel
,ns organization. This fine body is
SSo..aaucted by Walter RothweIl, OF
pelenna, a pupil of the great Mailer.
seolnWell was conductor for Mr. Saw
Sses production of "Parsifal" He is
assisted by Alfred Feith, of the Royal
opera, Berlin, and Herr CorneIis Dop-
per, Of Amsterdam.
Madam Butte-tly's" mise en- scene
WIZ II is promised, excel IN beauty any
opera produced in this country. save
ar. Savage's achievement I'm his pre-
seatation of "Parsifal," and this many
he H.