The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-02-28

1 is enough to warrant a visit each year
We are promised an enga cement every
year which VIII equal the coming one
The company was organized in Milan
Italy. the principals all coming from
the leading opera houses or Italy, Rus
STA, France, Germany, Austria and
Spain, and are some of the most noted
of the European world, although some
names are not familiar to our ear.
The repertoire here will be Lucia. q"
Wednesday night. III Trovatore -
Thursday Carmen" Friday, "Rigo-
letto:" Saturday matinee, "CavaIleria
Rusticana." and "Pagliacci' Saturday
night, with a different cast for every
opera, which in itself is great thing.
In the opening opera Lucia will be
heard, Nine. Cecilia Tafnanti Zavaski,
coloratura soprano, who has created
sensation in every city, Portland saying
she was the greatest soprano heard
there in many years. She is young ami
rather petite, contrasting in appear
ance with most of the great sopranos
who come from Italy with information
al regulations. She has a young, fresh
voice Of lyrical quality, and she uses
it with perfect schooling, and is de-
stined to be one of the foremost So
pranOs Of the world.
Eugenio Battain is declared by San
Francisco CRITICS to be the only logical
successor to CaTusO. He is the possessor
of a lyric tenor voice, full of thrill
voice unusually musical in the high
range. He is a thorough actor and very
magnetic. Giuseppe Pimazzoni. bari
tone, has voice of beautiful tone quail
ity which he uses to good advantage.
II TrovatOTe,' the second Offering of
the Lambardi Grand Opera company
viii be given with a cast composed OF
Alessandro Scaiabrini, dramatic tenor.
without doubt the greatest dramatic
tenor ever heard here. Elvira Campoli.
dramatic soprano. will sing. "Leonora.' -
One Of the big sensations of the opera
season will be Dolores Frau, nlezzo So
prano, who has a marvellous voice. that
IS equal of Heincke. full of
color and warmth; in fact. it is safe to
say that there are only two such voices
in the world. Schumann- Heincke and
Dolores Frau She will also be heard in
Carmen Friday night. with Eugenio
Battain. Angelo Antola. baritone will
be the toreadOr in Carmen He has
voice of rare beauty that thrills through
and through. He appears here in Car
men, and the prologue from "Pagliac-
ci.'
'Rigoletto' will be given Saturday
matinee, with Alessandro Modesti. bari
tOnes as ltgoletto the button. He is
from the Royal theatre. St. Petersburg.
whsTe he was the raging sensation. and
IS under contract for one year in the
United States. He is the premier bari
tone of this organization. For many
years he was singing opposite to the
great Tamangno. Gerard Graziaui.
1esgero tenor. who will be heard as the
Duke. was chosen for the a1l-star cast
at Trieste when all of Puccinis master
pieces were given recently. Paolo Wul-
man, basso, as Sparafucile, completes
the cast of principals. He is a giant in
size, and until recently was with the
La Scala in Milan. His lower tones re-
semble the deep tones on pipe organ. /
"Cavalleria Rusticana'' and .Pagliac- !
81, the double bill, viii close our all too
brief grand opera engagement Satur- |
day night.
Another soprano, Ardizoni Tosi, will |
be heard in "Cavalliera Rusticana"
The Lambardi Grand Opera company |