The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-12-29
ANOTHER new OPERA GIVEN
nm IIRST PERFORMsNtE OF
"kDEN IGSkIN DER"
,ns.inrrt nump~r'anrk's Ealr, 0p~ra
>uns for the Fir>, Time on An, STAGE
Mystic and s,mbs,,caI s,sr, s-i
~ Dainty Poetic Music Geraldine
Iarrar Paint, . New stage Picture

r ~ , announced that the Metropolitan
rr,.ra House had secured the right 10
90 cd. " Tor the first time on any sreEe
49, ,.'fa ~ the composer Of 'Hansel
.ri ur.'-l- and that this work would
.. 10. .Ihi forward IN English last sea-
.n o. was even asserted that il would
. l.,~n al the New Theatre However.
,.. wpr .sarios crhIld not govern the
INSPIRATION ~ the musician and the score
- . % Completed ia time for PERFORM
Al" I,st winter
It" d"lay IN finishing 'he instrunen-
,.'u ~o'Hrd-d the writing ~ The Eng
l-r '"Nt Nv Charles Henry Neither. Ia
- hat was kept back So long that the
. i..."''nS - The opera ~"r" not Obtain
a." Yesterday morning Ih"s. end
.',"~ Obstacles led Ia the abandonment
o. 't" original plan IL produce IN. opera
u tuGi-h and the sihgers learned u IN
G..'uIn More - ~. TIiv. for N ever
rr.." wss an opera If winch every word
needs To he understood thus ~ Il, n
% rad 's-n done IN I'm gish Ter haps
u" words ght have been made intel
hrrn." and perhaps not hut nj any rate
49, 'eupl would have h.en made ~ TN.
81 .t' direction
ihiS consideration. however. NAV / .
aside fO" the present The record
= That Nom gsk ind-r,- fairy opera
lu three acts, text by Ernst Rosmer aud
II SIC hy fngelbert HumperdincL. WAS
70. fngmed At the Metropolitan Opera
Il H.. last nigh, for the first lime on any
,'- :" u IL tru" that some years ago
Vi EWmrerdinch wrote some music
O.. NE play IN Its spoken form and that
;" 1as preserved parts of this n his opera
r b. he retention II t~o preludes and
. mic zen = march can hardly deprive
~IuslclAn Of the credit winch can
AIMED for the development Of al
.H lyrt" drama from some thr." ar
rv"ir die thoughts Tn" work il e.
A.. uaily q new creation and Mr. Hump.r-
should have honor where honor ~
'u' HISTORY of the inception ard expan
,.f rh,s music was q Ven IN this news
'.: un sunday. and with II ~as ~ DIVIDED
. -S"tch of the story ui the play For
O., SAX. 81 to-day's record 1t may be-
80 q that this fairy tale tells 81 the wan =
dsrng Of Kings Soa who sets out IN
.-a-ch ~ adventure. who meets a Goose
on IN the forest. falls IN Low. with her
and calls her his queen. A Witch has
fnr-told that the person who enters the
gates - Hellabrun at noon nf - certain
dav shall be the monarch OF the place
~. kina's SON, having fa,led Ia get the
Tuoa Girl away from the Wuch. who
hUlds her enchanted. goes 30 Hellabrtm
and ~ made n swinsh-rd 10y the silly
,~ople. who do not recognize his royalty
only the little daughter II a hroommaker
I.rcsives this.
shs. ~ n fW.slva fhs A
thrown open. and the 'oose 'ir' enters.
80 be ciasped IN IN" arms OF the hino
10" Both are forthwl it'll thrust out NV
he -nraged HeIlabrun people lhey
Nander in the winter woods. are lost and
starving They com" again =" IN" place
where they originally met The "Hch 3
hut - occupied nv others lh"y NhocN
N vain They beg for food aud receive
a poisoned loaf LETT hy the "nch lheN
eat and die under the sam" IRE" where
hey first loved Then the Spiefmdh"
"a fiddler. who had perceived their royal
nature. and the children OF heliabrun.
ed nv the Brocmm6k"r's Ddu0h'' r
'''ne seeking Tor them ana ma thetI'
.us' forever Th" sp''tndn" sings Their
4irL' and the children pear ,h"n away
n bier
Nv ~''''N ~
u class II literature ia which ''ernah'
particularly TIch mos" VINO nav
bestowed anv attention on IN. nr'l ~
II tn" land beyond the Rhin" know iha'
~ arrays Itself IN several clearly delh's
asses. E" Wit. that when deals WIZ
history. That dealing with scenes ahc
'narac'"rs 81 daily NE mat msrN"u p>
-I''-cIAl tendencies IN art literature "i
~''i"'y and lastly. the imaginative al
'am'astic.
In the first tw" departments Germany
i indeed poorly equipped Sh" has No
Ihsck"rav. n" Dickens. II" flaho-rt
u" kallac sh" has not even ID An
rIn7lo Goethes Wilhelm WEBSTER
1idar'rc =" the v"rg" ~ d@adiin"s- ah'
rs -tl"c'Iv" Afiniti"s is merely ser
mon IN favor 81 rotten r-Iision. bI
.n ~. imaginary world ~ li"ck. NON
mann and 'hsmisso ''"rmany - nn
eI'ra~~'d Her" too her hctinh lend
I's"' :" subdivision hsr tan'asti'
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