The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-06-29


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| = romance, afternoon and evening. +
Many OF the friends OF Miss Emma
Lucy Gates, who sings at the Salt Lake
theater this evening, would like 10 know
her real position In the Berlin opera
house. and what her musical standing In
Berlin really is. There is nothing to con-
ceal nor Is there anything phenomenal
about the singer or her work. There
nave been and are just good voices
among our Utah girls as Is possessed by
Miss Gates, but she has had two quail
ties which are pronounced by Carlysle
as the requisites OF genius, viz, indomt-
able perseverance or industry and the ar
tistic gift. Few men and fewer women
tic stars OF the first magnitude, 1t is
the power to create and endow both mu-
Sic and mimicry with life added to
ceaseless labor, that has put Miss Gates
is she2 II this question were put to one
OF the three managers OF that house.
the great Won Hilsen himself, or to the
second manager. Herr Drosscher. or to
the third. young Herr Dahn. each would
answer
Miss Gates occupies the position OF
pany. She Is extremely fortunate In this
position. as there are very few who at
tain TO such eminence in the first year"
Each might add that most of the great
have begun in the smaller opera houses
In the European cities. climbing slowly
up to the two coveted places In the
opePa per1 boss Of hon Mrope The
Grand Opera at Paris, The leading colo
ratura in Berlin is Fraulein Hcmple
young German singer of renown. who
has been singing three years III the Royal,
and two previous years in smaller op
era house in a German city. Fraulein
Hemple comes to New York this year.
in 'Mignon,' which Is the most exactlng
and difficult OF all coloratura roles; Luz
ella in the opera OF that name: Gilda
In .Rigoletto;" Martha; the. queen OF
opera which Miss Gates has sung Ehree
times this winter: Annechen in Der Erie
cheutz. and lastly; the Queen Of the
Night In the Magic Flute, Such roles
just between the pure lyric or colora
tura roles and the dramatic or soprano
roles. and these are sung by both classes
alike; The role OF Mimi in La Boheme"
Carmen" and Cherubino in The
Marriage Of Figaro" Butterfly Is pure
ly dramatic and is rarely sung. by colo
ratura sopranos, This class OF roles is
called ''yungend dramatisch" or youth
full dramatic parts in Germany. Geral-
dine Farrar's voice Is hardly dramatic
nor is II IN tne CLASS wnere
Melba's or sembrich's voices place them.
She has the parts that combine the dra
matte with some coloratura work The
first year that Miss Farrar sang in the
two roles, Juliet and Marguerite.
Miss Farrar as Miss Gates made her
first appearance in the Royal. unlike most
of the other great singers who have come
up from other and smaller houses. Sem
brich was brought out In Dresden and
was cast for the heavy dramatic roles.
She rebelled. knowing that this would
ruin the delicate voice she possessed.
From there she went to Vienna. but so
indignant was she over her treatment in
Dresden that she would never sing there
again.
Jenny Lind went to Paris before her
voice was fully placed. although she had
been prematureIy put on the stage In her
own country So Inundated was she
would never again sing in Paris. much
to the sorrow OF that music loving peo-
pie.
Tetrazzinni. the newly discovered colo
ratura singer of the Metropolitan opera
house in New York, is over 40 years of
age. and has been seeking recognition all
these years in Europe and South Amcrl-
ca. but never until year or two since
Miss Gates has had three big roles this
winter In Berlin, two of them her own
exclusive roles-Philen elm "Mignon" and
Annechen in Der Friechuetz" She has
sung number of small but good parts
In Poia. Rienzi, Hanzel and Juliet in THE
OF Figaro" and In 'Electa,' tho
new opera by Strauss She tells an anus
ing story of the first rehearsal for the FL
garo opera. conducted by the great
Strauss. She had the word Mann" to
sing in her part, and she did not give
shouted Strauss at her, Again she tried,
and again she was admonished. Then,
stepping to the front Of the stage, Herr
the greatest German musical
- to -trn Ion, I'D, r,rt,.
Let her alone. let her alone, she has no
man. Wait till she has one. and then she
can pronounce 1t.
Some operas are written with dra-
matte soprano part as the heroine. some
with a meZzo- soprano part, and some
with the coloratura. But In most, with
the exception Of the Wagner operas. there
are parts for g. coloratura singer, II
"Rigletto," there is q dramatic part .as a
second part; yet 1t may we'll be. and is,
that the dramatic part Is first part,
and even of more Importance than the
heroine's part, Such was the case In
The Magic Flute In "Migpon," and in
such operas as "La Bobeme' the two
parts are almost equal.
The sale of seats for Miss Gates's ap-
pearance this evening indicates a ca
pacity house.
Today will witness the first matinee
OF the week at the Orpheum, and the
play, which has been such a success on
this. the first occasion of It's revival
since its presentation here some years
ago. Is attracting unusual attention. 1t
is rema rkably we'll staged and the work
of the individual members of the cast Is
excellent. IF / Were King" will proba
bly, stablish new record for summer
TIE xARK or A1-A -AovARANTEe