Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-22
evening inoludes the folIowlng num-

evening includes the following num-
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Concerto B minor, allegro non troppo,
andantino quasi allegretto, ellegro
non troppo ;;..........'., 'saint-saehs
scherzo B minor, op. 2o............ Chopin
Cazin
chaconne .....................'' Bach
Hartmann.
Farfalla .....s............. .-..s..s. Sautel
Cradle song .MacDowel- Hartmann
Rhapsodie ELLEN" ..,..,....... Hartmann
Hartmann.
Etude A nat major, op. ., No. 1...:..
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. Paul de schloeAer
Prelude and nocturne. op. 9..... scriabine
Polonaise q major ..............,....L lszt
Calzin.
Airs Russes .......#.......... NleHitWsAl
Hartmann.
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Impresario Barry has received many
requests that Puccinfs beautiful Jap
anese opera, Iris be included in the
repertoire of the Lambardi company
during the Los Angeles engagement,
and it is in recognition of this general
interest that he has furnished The Her
aid with the following synopsis OF the
Japanese musie-drama;
Iris" is an Oriental play, the plot
Japanese. Its philosophy differs en-
tirely from western or European sys5
TENS In it the sun talks and is an
SWGIGuy us a DGISOi AtcbNlAlB COilSNASN'
ness, and all things are supposed TO
have knowledge.
The story opens with a scene in the
little garden of Iris, the only child OF
an old blind man-Cieco. She is play
ing with her doll and talking to the
sun. She is very young and beautiful
and the young man, Osaka, contrlVes
plan with Kyoto, a takiomati or keeper
of a house in Yoshiwara, to capture
Iris and to keep her in Yoshiwara. To
carry out their plan they procure dolls
and arrange a puppet show, with the
hired assistance of geishas, musicians
and tramps.
Iris, whose girlish curiosity draws
her nearer and nearer to the puppets,
is at length quietly captured and car
ried off, after Kyoto has left small
sum of money to make the seizure
legal.
knowing nothing of the capture,
Cieco is led to believe that she has
gone to Yoshiwara of her own accord.
He curses her and follows.
In the second act Iris wakes up in a
beautiful palace in Yoshiwara and,
knowing nothing of the place, believes
herself dead and in paradise. Here she
is met by Osaka, whose voice had
charmed her in the puppet show. She
is inclined to like him, but she is so
young and innocent that she knows
1OIDlug WndlGNSI dDOhI loNCi anu OAiAJ
answers his passionate appeal by ask
ing to go home to her little cottage, her
father and her garden of flowers. Dis
gusted with her, Osaka gives her up.
Kyoto then resolves to make money
by exhibiting her beauty to the crowds
in Yoshiwara. Osaka again falls des-
perately in love with Iris as he looks
on her, and tries to buy her of Kyoto.
While thus on exhibition she is glad
dened by the sound of her fathers
voice, not knowing that he comes to
curse her. He is led to the show win
dow, where he gathers handfuls of
mud and throws it upon her, cursing
her. Crazed by the curses, she jumps
from the window into a deep sewer
basin provided for frightening disobe-
dent girls into submission.
In the third act rag pickers are
searching the river into which the sew
ers empty. They discover the gaudy
dress and with it the body of Iris The
girl revives and the men run away.
Half alive, half dead, she reflects on
her position, the world and fate. She
hears the voices of the "egoisms' of
Osaka, Cieco and Kyoto. Believing
herself about to live again, she dies
happily as the sun rises.
The sun again speaks to her, reas-
sures her, and finally covers her body
with flowers.
The characters employed are: The
blind man, bass; Iris, soprano; Osaka,
tenor; Kyoto, barytone; a geisha, So
prano; shopkeeper, tenor; rag picker,
tenor