Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-05-09

pany from the Dresden opera viii pre-
sent Tristan und Isolde;"the Schwerln
Opera company, Max Schillings's MO
loch" and Hermann Zunnpe's "Sawitri;'
the Paris Opera Comique, Massenet's
"Wcrther" and Debussy's "pelleas ut
Melisande;" the Berlin komische Oper,
PuccIni's "rosca." and d'Albert's Tile
fiand." and the Paris Opera. two per-
formances of ballets. while the Prague
Opera has reserved for itself Puccini's
La Boheme" and Auber's Fra Dia =
volo." Max Schlnings will be present to
conduct his "Moloch" Following the
engagement OF the Russian Opera com
pany. at Krolls Theater Berlin. the
Schwerin company viii present the
same operas they give in Prague in the
Prussian capital.
Mime. Tetrazzinl put as much mean
ing into her words as she does into her
runs when she said this: THE singer
Is too often apt to look ON what she
earns as merely an interest on her
powers In that she makes q mistake (:
1t is hei principal that she is drawing
upon" Then she smiled as she voiced
this paradox: But whether | am rich
or not | am always rich when | sing.
Her art still means the best thing In
life to her,
But here is the realization. to para
art. She had Just spoken. with an
awed sorrow, of good singers grown
old who starved OF hunger in Italy. and
of others In Germany whose misfortune
was scarcely lighter.
To know Mime. Tetrazzini is to know
that her head IL quite firmly set oil
her shoulders. without mental balance,
no woman could sing herself into tre-
mendous success in q night. as she
did, and look out with calmness on the
world the next morning. Few of us,
as much as we might like II, could
make the experiment and come through
as bravely. Exchange.
Heinrich Conreid. former manager of
tho New York Metropolitan Opera
House. has sailed for Berlin on the
Kaiser Wilhelm III. He was accom-
panied on the ship by Mrs. Conreid and
Miss Clarke, his nurse, and a fellow
voyager was Geraldine Farrar. At his
last appearance at the Metropolitan. he
met Andreas Dippel the new adminis-
trative director. When asked If he did
not feel sorry at leaving the scene
Of activities of FIVE arduous and event.
full years. he answered laughing. Not
in the least. I I'm glad of my escape"
Then he turned 60 Mr. DIPPED and said,
'Dippel, you are to receive "A letter from
me. The contents of that letter will be
rlluCn the Stnle-ilO. precisely the same
as ] received from Mr. Grau the very
day / undertook my labors here. He
wrote to me that IL ! should make Il
million dollars | should have more than
earned every cent OF 1t. All that he
said in that letter, and all that he inn
piled. have been perfectly justified"
The American composers deserve a
word apart, not because of any superior
merit. but by reason of the patriotic
interest that attaches to their work,
says the Boston Transcript. In this con-
nection II Is pleasure to record that
among the three men represented by
new compositions, Chadwick, Foote and
Oidberg, the most lasting impression
was made by the latter. Ii is not felt
THAI this impression is due to any pre-
1udico in favor Cd the work OF a Chicago
an. Both of the older men exhibit mas
terry of the technic of orchestral COM
position that Mr. Oldberg only partially
shares. But Mr.. Oberg in turn pos
sesses a personal quality that is not
felt in similar measure in the work of
his colleagues. This quality is both
forceful and sincere. 1t makes itself
felt in spite of certain "reminiscences
that more than hint at Wagnerian in
fluence. so that one can say that MI
Oldberg has attained originality in spite
of them by virtue of his refreshing, II
youthful, enthusiasm,