New-York tribune., 1909-09-13
METROPOLITAN SEASON
NEW WORKS AND SINGERS.
Enlarged Orchestra and Big Ballet
Headed bg Mile. PaUIo7Ca.

Hsh will be given this season at the we+roDoIi+ar
opera House, according to the annual prospectus
issued yesterday. Just what these operas ave to
be is not stated but it Is probable that two Of them
will be Converse's Pipe Of Desire and Goldmarbs
Cricket the Hearth" both Of which were pror1-
ised but not given last season.
The season will begin on Monday evening Noveul-
ber Is and will continue for twenty weeks perform
ances being given both at the Metropolitan and at
the New Theatre Besides the performances IN
English, the operas will be sung as heretofore in
German, Italian and French. The prospectus goes
TO state;
scheduled, Of which one hundred will be givss On
Monday. Wednesday. Thursday, Friday and satur-
II will be noted that on Saturday nights regular
%5 the same s a e hF 81 s9 nbs WIZ TPrSs be sn aRa
sqtuted ror the previous popular ones
operas Of the New Theatre repertor Sic5 SUI
only receive limited number OF performances
ropoltan Opera House. For the New Theatre FORTY
Sooe r OF lyric opera and opera
Friday evenings and alternate Wednesday and
A noteworthy feature Of the season is the en-
b SSenenJ NM on an entTely new and hrst class ballet
VIII not only supply the regular dances in grand
ton to such operas as do not I'm the entire even
ing The management fortunate enough to
ton Of the great star ballerina Mile Anna Paw
oTs from the Imperial Theatre in St Petersburg,
OF dancing. who. together with the first solo dancer
kline. win come to America by special leave Of alb
senee T,, granted iran ted them BY the Emperor Of Russis
has, has aIso been engaged as solo dancer. and Miss
while Ottokar Bartik under whose personal SUPER
vision there will be recruited corps OF male dan
GERS will act as solOist I.odovico saracco. who
VIII interpret mimic parts has been retained IN his
sixty has been engaged for the entire season.
There will also be special performances Of par
sifal' of "Haensel und Gretel' and cycle Of wag-
+ neTs Ring" BY an agreement with the Boston
Opera Company. the Metropolitan and the Boston
opera houses will interchange singers,
Arturo Toscanini and Alfred Hertz will return as
conductors. and Gustav Mailer will conduct lin
tied number OF performances. The other conductors
will be VittOrO Podesti of the Imperial Opera IN
St Petersburg; Egisto Tango. OF the Berlin Opera
Cornique. and Max Bendix The orchestra has been
/ increased to 155 musicians. with a stage band Of
/ thirty.
Among the new operas for which the Metropolitan
announces It has obtained the exclusive rights Of
production are Debussys Ia Chute de Ia Maison
Usher. lie Diabe dams le Beffroi" and La LA-
gende de Tristan. Dukas's "Ariane ct Barbe Bleu i"
/ Kiepzl's Der Evangelimann." Leroux's La RENE
Fiamette." Carpenters La Vie du Poete' Nou-
/ guess Quo Vadis.' Ravel's 'LHeure EspaznoIe'
aud SalvayTes "SoIange' Other novelties will be
Bruneau's "L'Attsque du Moulin" Franchetti's
"Ciermania CiOetzeTs les Precieuses Ridcules'
+ Humperdincks Kings Children" Laparro's la
HabaneTa." Lehar's Amour des Tziganes." Leroux 3
lie Chemineau." TschaikOwsky's "Pique Dame and
Wolf-FeTrari's lie Donne CuriOse."
The prospectus announces that as many of these
novelties will be performed as possible. either at
the Metropolitan the New Theatre. There may
also be revvals OF Auber's Fra DiavoIo' Delibe's
"Lakme," DOnizettis La File du Regiment" Le-
cocq's La File de Madame Ang6t" Massenet's
"Werther." Verdi's "Otello," ROssini's III Signor
Bruschino" and Ofenbach's Les COntes dHOn-
man"
Among the ballets will be Bayer's Wiener
WALKER and Die Puppenfee.' ChOpin-GilazounoE's
/ Les Sylphides" and Delibes's "Coppelia'' and
I Sylvia"
/ The new artists engaged for the company are
Mines. Anna Case Vera Courtenay. Alma GIuck.
Lucette de LEVIN. Lydia Lipkowska. Alice Nielsen,
Jane Noria and Jane Osborn-Hannah. sopranos
Mines. AIariska-A -AIdrich. Elizabeth Clark. Marie
/ Delna, Jeanne Maubourg. Anna aIeitschik and
/ Florence Ntckham. mezBO-sopranos and cOntTaltos
/ Edward Clement Leo DevauX. Glenn Hall. Herman
! Jadlowker. Wilhelm Otto. Georges Regis. Umberto
SancarH ans Leo Sezak. tenOrs: Henry DGtilloy.
John Forsell Dinha Ciilly Anton Ludwig. Vim
( cenzo Reschglian and Clarence Whiteh. tenOrs.
and Georges Bourgeois. Fernando CiianOli- Marcel
/ Reiner and Andrea P. de Segurola bassOs.
Among the singers re-engaged from last season
or who have sung before the Metropolitan are
| Mines Destinn Farrar Fremstad, Farnia. AIten.
/ Gadski. Morena. Nordica. Homer and Flahant, and
Mn Caruso. Bonci BUrrian Antilles. JoTn, Martin.
Amato. Goritz Scott. Sooner. Blass. DidUr,
IFfnCkIev and WitherspoOn.