The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-03-13
NOTES OF OPERA IN EUROPE
4 CCENS ~ LIGHT NJ STC
DSE TO AZ ACCIDENT.
searS &C l.eS0eaN AllS's "NRrhruct.''
Opera In soath America GermAnyG
Music FestlN als-A PHat0unllae b, .
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RuGgierO I1eoncavallo attributes his
succeaa AZ q composer Of light music Ia an
incident that occurred during a visit TO
Berlin. lie was at the home OF a wealthy
manufacture aud To the disgust % the
hoste~s pleaded hia,eEcessive size as al sx-
cuas for not dancing.
Then you can at least play the piano.
she said. You can make yourself useful
In one way OF another
She led the composer from the smoking
room 20 the piano. where he took his place
and sHtempOrized a waltz and polka
The guests we're delighted with the piauant
measures u the polka and the haunting
rhythm Of the waltz.
After q half hour AZ the piano the coR-
poser returned to the smoking room and
wrote out on piece Of paper what he had
just heard. These two melodies are the
principal themes IN the new comic opera
-Nlarbruck, with which Leoncavallo has
had much moro success than in hts recent
failure -MaiA.- which In to he rewritten
before IL il sung in Nice By LILLIAN Gren-
VILE.
Edith de Lys has been singing IN Flor
ence with Malta Battistini and will 60
with him to appear this spring in Prague
and viennR, where Nerdi's almost for
gotten Maria de Rohan- will he revived
for the two singers. As IL was this year in
Italy. Malta battisttni has passed his
fifty fifth birthday hut In sald To sing still
with great beauty and artistry. He has
appeared freluently IN recent years IN
-Werther which Jules Massenet rewrot-
for hum a baryton. role
MignOn Nevada. daughter Of the once
famous diva. II singing this year IN Italy
and Portugal. She has Recently added
IiOisftd To her repertoire. She has been
taught only by her mother. who was a
pupil 81 AlathiIde March~si In Vienna.
ho~ina Storchio Recently revived In
Sonnambula- at Ia SCala without very
brilliant results. The Italian priIna donna
~ to 20 to south America Tor the cuning
| summer. There most Of the famous
italian singer. gather during the season.
They are Enabled ~ sing all the year Nv
J this means.
In BI~nos AyreA. the chief singers this
summer will he Lima Cavalieri, SaloneA
krtlsceniska. Gianina Russ who IL still
regarded a. the foremost dramatic
soprano in Italy Riccardo >tracciaTi and
Maria Gay. who will he at ths Opera. while
az the Colon tho company will include
Adnmo 'Didur. Charles Housseilere.
Giuseppe Ans~lrni. Ester Mazzoleni. TittA
Ruifo and Rotperto de I.uca. The CON
ductors there are NM. MuRnons and
Vitale.
Gustav Mailer will be the conductor
81 the music festival organized in his
honor at Mannheim. The performances
viii begin with Die Meist ersingsr.
which Herr MAhIer will conduct. Il vii
BE- followed by concerts TO include the
Besshovsn symphonies and compositions
by the conductor.
The opera festival has taken a per
mAnent kold on the German impre-arios
and I.eipNic a. well a. Cologne will this
year give a S,rie- &C special performances
Munich waS the first city to Introduce
this feature of the op~rRtIc season. In
I1eip.ic there are to ~ soms visiting stars
to AID the homo singers in Tristan und
Iaolsse.- -Fidelio.- The Magic Flute
and lie Nozz.. al Figaro
II has recently been said that Tristan
und Isolde had become the least popular
OF the Wagner operas in Germany. and
this fact IL thought 10 be Que to the scenic
simplicity II the work Even Wagner
somewhat more interesting spectaclcs
than the great love opera offers. which
h not surprising IL they are compelled to
listen tc German singing.
II the New Theatre was not going out
~ the operate business altogether at the
close 1T the present season there might
he available material for " IN Dohnanyi's
new pantomime -Pierette's Veil which
has Just met with SUCCESS In Dre-den
Ernst Won Dohnanyi ~ the young Hun
RaTian pianist who sgane ont "a this coun-
try n few yea ~ ago and played with sue
ce-e since hi@ return 20 Furope he has
been devotink himself almost exclusively
10 composition
Arthur Schnitzer arranged the action
Of the pantOmime. which reveals the hove
Of Parrot and Etsreffs she ~ compelled
to marry HARLEQUIN. hut the tNo lovers
Just before the wedding ceremony II Ia
he take place decide to die by poison
PferTo' drinks his glass, hut seeing his
sweetheart hesitate he dashs-S the POISON
out of her hand.
Then Pisysftc dances n frenzy before
the body 81 her lover before she too falls
ds.ad The Scor~ - described being
Of unusual beauty. especially Niennes@
waltz which runs through it, scenes The
composer has scored the work for "A large
orchestra and used tn" 'sH mo'',s
throughout
German favor ~ August EnnR's opera
CLEOPATRA" founded on the text % Rider
Hazards novel 81 the same name II
was produced at the Nolksoper IN Berlin
and Rachel Frease Green. the American
soprano had the title role She was very
successful in n Mrs Green tried for n
post in the Royal Opera House IN Berlin
and sang there without finding an en-
IA cement She has met with continued
favor IN the other opera house.
The composer. who wrote his opera
ten years ago, had IL accepted nv the
Royal Opera House in Berlin. bur u was
never sung II 10 said to ~ very mslodious
and refreshingly free from the declama-
tory style ~ many resent operas. There
was no attempt tn impart y national
element 20 the music. which - well made
but cosmopolitan IN style. Few recent
EoFkz have met With such -,irc@s- IN
Berlin. which has be~n compelled recently
10 accept the political novelties selected
by the Emperor rather than works en-
titled through their musical value 70 a
hearing.
Rudolf Berger. who came To this country
to learn to be q tenor after ten years
successful cArssr a. a barytOns in the
Berlin Opera HOUSE. has Just sung IL.
PropnAts- and has also appeared during
the winter in Carmen and -Lohengrin'
and -Pagliacci."
The chorus OF the Royal Opera Houns
in Budapest " hich has To sing in Hungarian
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