Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-11

there. She found after a few months that
the principal colorature roles which she
had been engaged to sing were being
given to another soprano, and 1t was plain
that her advance in that theater would be
slow. In addition to this disappointment she
had sung at the Teatro dal Verne in Milan
in italian, appearing six times while on a
leave of absence as Lucia, and she realized
that her prospects were Lest in Italian
opera. On her return she was cast for a
dramatic role utterly unsuited to her. and
that determined her course.
Julia Subra, who has just died in Paris
at the age of ~, for som years divided
tho honors Of the ballet at the Paris opera
with Rosita Maurl. who was much her
senior. Mile. Subra was a child Of the
house. for her father, a tailor in Mont
martre. decided when his two daughters
were children that both should be dancers,
She and her sister Constance, who became
IN actress and died very young. entered
the school when children. Constance soon
decided that she preferred the dramatic
stage, and acted at the Vaudeville and
Theater du Pare in Brussels during her
short career. At the age Of IS Julia ap-
peared as a dancer in La Muette de Por-
tici" and met with success.
Lilli Lehman, who sings now and then,
and gives all her earnings to charity, has
for some years contributed most that she
earns to the Berlin Society for the Pre-
vention OF Cruelty to Animals, which she
was Instrumental in founding. But the other
day she gave $500 TO the use of the Mozart
museum at Salzburg. Edith de Lys, a New
! York girl who was able to complete her
preparations for the stage through the
generosity OF a rich New Yorker, who has
helped many aspirants before, is to be the
original Tess in the Milan production Of
the opera composed by Franchetti on Tess
OF the d'Urbervilles." She is also to sing
Mimi and Eva.
After the production of "Gotterdam-
merung' at the Opera in Paris the new
directors are to give a series of novel
ties by French composers Among them
are Norma Wanna" to which Xavier
LerouX has written the music and the
annual Massenet work, which Is this time
called "The Youth OF Bacchus." a con-
genial theme to the pen Of Catulle
Mendes. who has prepared the text. At
the Opera Comique there are to be among
other new works the Compromised set
ting by Gabriel Pierne OF De Musset's
On ne bdulne pas ANSC AlnOuTt lBduOT
de Lara's "Sange," Pierre lie Veridique,"
by Xavier Leroux. and a revival OF THE
Magic Flute" The Theater de la Mon
male at Brussels is to give katherine"
by Edgar TineI, the Belgian composer;
Eros Vainqueur." by Breville and
Xavier's Norma Wanna" which has been
accepted for several German opera houses
as well. The most important work to
be introduced in France next winter,
however, will be "The Life OF a Poet"
which Gustave Carpenter has declared
Win ready for production by that time.
IL is the second part OF the trilogy Of Bo-
hemian life IN Louise" Equally interest
! ing is the announcement that Debussy has
found the inspiration for his next work in
Poe's story The FAN OF the House Of
Usher" These two operas belong to the
Metropolitan opera house, which will after
next year have control Of the entire French
school. "Pelleas ct Melisande' and "Elek-
ira" by Richard Strauss, are to be the
principal novelties Of the Munich Court
opera house.
One OF the successful novelties during
recent years in Germany was The Curi5us
Women" composed by Wolf Ferrari. who
IS at the conservatory in Venice. The
text was adapted from a play by Goldoni.
The composer ls much better known as an
opera composer in Germany than in his
own country, although he intends that his
new opera, The Virgins Jewels shall be
sung first in Italy. Zangarini has written
the poem, which tells the story OF a young
msn who steals the jewels from a statue
OF the Nirgin to give them TO his sweet
heart Leoncavallo's "Msja.' which is tc
be suns a. Monte Carlo this spring. deals
with a Provenesl subject ana tie composer
is now In that distItC
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