The sun., 1908-10-04
NOTES OF THE OPERA ABROAD
THE RIVALRY BETWEEN EMMY
DESTINN AND MISS FARRAR.

nine. sembrlch to Make Tour OF Ger.
many nefere Gaming TO America
Novelties by French Composer TO BE
SUNG In Paris-Some to BE Heard Here
Andreas Dippel has not heard from
Me- Emmy Destinn as to the results oil
a fall which prevented her reappearanoe
the Royal Opera House in Berlin. but
he does not believe that her accident was
erious enough to prevent her sailing for
this country in time to open the Metro
politan Opera House on November IL
in Aida" which is to be the first opera
she will sing here. There is indeed a well
founded belief that Mile. Destinn's in
disposition is caused by the fact that she
will not be allowed to sing Media when
Signor Caruso goes to the Royal opera
House in Berlin. That role. which is one
Of the most famous in the repertoire OF
the Bohemian prima donna, has been given
to Miss Geraldine Farrar, and the feud
which began WI IN the title role in Mime.
Butterfly" was allotted to Miss Farrar
is not likely soon to end.
Mile. Destinn has retired from the Ger
man Opera House. as her contract has
come to an end, but like Miss Farrar she
is still under contract to sing there Tor
three months every year. After she lost
the right to create Butterfly in the opera
house she was so incensed with the direc-
torate that she continued to say she was
TOO i'll 10 sing until it was necessary to
give her two months leave Of absence to
recover her health.
Emmy Destinn created the part at
Covert Garden and made sensational
success in it, but Miss Farrar gave the
role in Berlin and Mile. Destinn naturally
refused ever TO sing Il thore as she felt
that the honor OF the FIRST performance
belonged to her. In order to show her
feeling on the subject Of all things German
she recently gave a song recital in her
| native Prague in which the entire pro-
gramme was rendered in Bohemian. Her
return to Berlin was in order to appear as
Media with Signor Caruso. When she
arrived there to begin her engagement
she discovered that the part had been
assigned to Miss Farrar
Nine Sembrioh is to make a short tour
Of the principal German opera houscs
before sailing for this country. She Ia
to appsar in la Traviata" and III Bar
here di Seviglia- in Dresden, where both
performances will be given in Italian.
Grtf Seebach has ordered that even the
chorusss he sung in that language. More
Interesting than these preparations to
give Italian opera in German opera
house is the fact that Nine. Sembrich
has Tor twenty years been barred out
Of the Royal Opera House in Dresden.
although her career began there. She
found after few months that the prin-
cipal coIorature roles which she had
zen engaged to sing were being given
70 another soprano, and IL was plain that
zen advance in that theatre would be slow:
Madtition to this disappointment she had
sh5 AT the Teatro dal Verne In Milan
N Italian, appearing six times while on
Save OF absence as Lucia. and she
,I,ahzsl that her prospects were best In
!ahn opera. On her return she was cast
,Ra dramatic role utterly unsuited TO her.
an' '"' determined her course.
Julia Suhra, who has just died in Paris
AZ the age OF 42. for some years divided
'ne honors Of the ballet at the Paris Opera
with Rosta Mauri. who was much her
sanlor. Mile. Subra was a child Of the
nous" for her father. tailor in Mont
'nartre, decided when his two daughters
NeT" children that both should be dan
cor She and her sister Constance. who
""aMo an actress and died very young.
ltef"i the school when children. Con.
nLahcH soon decided that she preferred
'A' dramatic stage. and acted at the