New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-11-04
MORE SINGERS RETURN.
Not Feeling Fit for Concert, They
Conduct Lottery on VOyage.

The stars of the operate world who reached New
York yesterday Kaiser Wilhelm II didn't
feel at all like taking part in the usual concert
which is held on the passage Because Of the
rough weather, most of them unequal to the
task of making vocal effort, even for sweet char
ity's sake. Instead, they started lottery, for
which four hundred tickets sold with the
condition that % per OF the total should form
prizes for the holders of the lucky bits of paper,
10 per cent going to charity. But not even Nine.
Luisa Tetrazzini, who is always optimistic as to
her luck, landed in the money, and Enrico Caruso,
who took one hundred of the tickets. among
the "aIso rams"
Although she had an unpleasant trip. Nine Tet-
razzini had recovered her spirits by the time New
York appeared in view. She was delighted with
her experiences abroad. and delighted. TO get
back to New York and Mr.. Hammerstein wait
ing for her at the pier. Before being whsked away
to the KniekeTbOcker she expressed her especial
pleasure at Mr.. Hammerstein's thoughtfulness in
giving her chance to sing Rosina in THE Barber
of Seville" which she is to do her debut at
the Manhattan the first regular subscription
Saturday night of the season. November II
Mile. Geraldine Farrar, with her father and
mother, also the boat. ready with another
denial of the rumOr that she is engaged 70 marry
her fellow traveller Signor Antonio Scott. Signor
Scott said ne wasn't married. and that if he
engaged he did know it. Mile Farrar is
make her first appearance at the opening night
of opera In the Brooklyn Academy OF Music
on November "A Caruso will be the Faust. Two
nigh. later he will be the Rhadames in Aida" at
the opening of the at the Metropolitan.
Mile. Emmy Desttnn will make her debut in the
part of the Ethiopian slave The tenor Is also
scheduled to sing in Philadelphia on the nth
Aessandro BoneI, too. happy be back
New York, with a busy year ahead of him. After
his engagement at the Metropolitan he has a con-
cert tour, and will then sail for Buenos Ayres TO
sing from May until September at the new Teatro
Colon Otto GOritz. of the German barytones
returning for .he Metropolitan season. said that
among his other activities abroad he had taken
part in concert for fund to enable Count
Zeppelin to rebuild his airship.
Then there Adolf MUhlmann. Metropolitan
barytone; Tullio Voghera, assistant conductor at
the Metropolitan; Josef Hoffman, the pianist and
Albert Spadins, the young American yiolinist who
will open his concert tour at Carnegie Hall next
Sunday. At the pier to meet his wife was Andreas
Dippel. the administrative manager of the Metro
politan NJ. Giulio Gatti-Casazza was also there to
greet friends.
On the Butcher two other principals of the
Metropolitan. of them Nine. Felicie Kaschow-
ska addition TO the company. She sang here
first at the Metropolitan in 1895. She is OF Polish
birth Albert Reiss. the tenor also returned for
another season.
Miss Farrar's parts this season will be the
title part in Massenets ''Manon' Mcaela. in car
mem; Cherubino in The Marriage Of Figaro
and the leading part in Humperdinck's Children
of the King to be given in English. Caruso has
been studying during the summer. and for
parts at the Metropolitan will have Des Grieux. IN
''Manon'; Turiddu. in "Cavalleria Rusticana' Don
Jose In Carmen and Ermanno In La Dana Ill
Pcche." Scottis new appearances will be Fall
stan in the revival OF Verdi's opera of that name
Lescaut. in "Manon." and Ducamara. In "I.Esir
d'Amore' Bonci has been studying the leading
part in Pucont's lie WILL a novelty at the Metro
poltan this season. Goraz will be Meruccio in the
Berlin success D'Albert's ''Tiehand." and will Gre
ate the part OF KeSal in smetanas Die verkaufts
Braut"