The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-05-29
SINGERS WORK ALL YEAR NOW
MANY ITALIAN ARTISTS IN
GAGED IN SOUTH AMERICA.

Three Opera Hsases n Buenos ASres- An
"OrfeO" season IN snrope vein.
EaFineTS Novelties n Vlenaa opera
N Dublln. ElilnbarEh and Lsndan.
Tbs recent composition Tor thsir asr-
vices has increased the compensation Of
opera singers and the growth Of the
cities Of South America has made Il pos
sible Cor them 10 work during most Of tho
year. Although IGnaeo Paderewski has
decided not 70 90 to Argentina this year
there arc hoFdoa Of opera singers there.
Ths season 81 the COliseo In BuenOa
Ayres viii have Ferdinand Constantine,
Fely Daroyns. 0emmS Belllnoioni. Carlo
Walter and MargheFitA Bevignani ~ ~
principal singers and the conductor will
bs Giuseppe Baroni. Rosina StOrchio.
Gamma Russ, Lima Cavalier, Maria
Gay. Salomea Krusceniaka, Emma
DFustti. DmitFi SmirnoR, Riccardo stFAc-
ctari and Alfredo Ventilrini-- Hammer
STEMS little Nenturtni--will be the leading
singers, and LsopOldo MnRnone will be
tho OOnduCtor In tho company 90 the
Colon, which last year did not open lie
doom on account % the great defloit Of
the preceding season.
Tho troupe at the opera h strongest
on tho masculine side, ~ Giuseppe An
selmi, AdamO Dldur. Charles Rousseliero.
who has come 70 devote himself alto
gsthsr 10 the Italian stage; Titta RIIRo
and AdslinA Agostinelh ARE the leading
singers. with Edoario WHALE from La
Scala a. conductor. Then there are COM
panies 20 sing In the smaller Ustioa.
Thia has bean an aOrfeo' season. In
addition 10 the beautiful production Of
Gluok's opera made At the Metropolitan
Opera House by 0atti-CasaEEa and Tos-
canini, Marie BTema recently revived the
work In LQpdon with Viola Tree. tho
beautiful daughter % Beerbohm Tree
a. Eagydics. Now the Duke visconti-
M0dena. who Sas for many yeara aAso-
ciaiod with the fortunes Of La Scala. has
revived in Italy Claudio MonteveFdi's
old opera based on the same legend with
Giuseppe kaachrnann. who sang here
frst under the management OF the Metro
pottan during its first season and later
returned under Maurice 0rau In the
title role.
GiacomO OriGos. composer Of Chopin"
has rescored the work which dates from
1907. when Il was sung az the court Of
Francisco 0onEaga, Duke Of Mantua.
The first production Of this musical
curiosity was made in Milan and has
since been carried from one city u north
ern Italy TO another with great artistic
ancCoaa.
ClsOfontS Campanlnl. she popular oon-
ductor Of the San Carlo in Naples. could
not make his audience conduct itself
properly when Leoncavallo's 1ZaEa' was
- "A. =. -. A.
time. Hammerstein had announced the
work with Carmen Melis in the title role.
but the fate Of -Sapho' and one or two
other novelties changed his plans. The
audience at san CsrlO decided that the
crude action Of the Simon-Berton drama
was unworthy Of the classic precincts Of
the historic opera house and the perform
ance was not allowed to come to an end.
A different sort of itaiiAn opera will he
provided by the promoters 81 the season
which h 20 he given in Venice in honor
OF the opening Of the exposition there
Rossini's ia Camhiale Al MatrimoniO,
which was sung az the Venice exnctiy
century ago. will bs made the first part u
a programme which will also contain
ROssini's william Tell the masterpiece
Of the composer which il not frequently
heard in Italy in these days
Felix WeingArtner has made public the
novelhy- n he gwen during the next
season az ne Imperial Opera House In
Vienna IN the hope that the citizens ~
the Austrian capital may regard him with
greater faEor than they have Recently,
shown b the intendAnt - tho Imperial
Opera House True 90 his confidence In
spieloper he IL 20 give a new production
q -Czr and Carpenter but will not
be- able 10 give performance much better
than tina, produced by Andreas Dippel At
the New Theatre last winter and an
entirely new production NJ -0oetteriaem-
merrng' which completes the new cycle
Of the Nibelmgen Ring
Berliozs -Benevenuto Cellini' will have
! new production and STRAUSS new opera
will he sung next June Under the personal
direction % the composer. who will he
this time. however ~ get along
without the services ~ Lucille Marcel !
y hO no longer belongs % the company
The Veil ~ Pierrette' and
Oscar Strauss me act opera Brave Cas-
sian will no among the new works. which /
will also include Oberleithner's -Aphr0- /
iite.- Phtmer's Poor Heinrich and a
ballet OF two.
Luoie Wsidt. who j. q be a member of |
tho company a. the Metropolitan Opera /
HOUSE next year. has Just sung tho lead /
ng role in Goldmarks -GOetz Won Ber- 4
ichingsn which was revived a. the I'm /
Dsrial Opera Houso in Vienna 20 honor
eizhtieth birthday Although /
his opera u now more than a decade Old I
i has never rivalled The Queen 81 Sheha'
In popularity
The total receipts ~ the Imperial Opara 1
House in Vienna during the -eason which 1
iust came 10 an end amounted % more I
han A,00OOOO. The average receiUts 4
! night were 81 .pOn The deficit after the
Seduction u the imperial subsidy. /
amounted 10 only t1a.OOO, which u not
,Kceasive when viewed in tbs light Of New
York deficits The subsidy h always 1
,Ountsd a. a fixed income.
Selma KurZ has returned from her
ravels and made her temperance in
Vienna az HiOlstid. Francilia Kaufman,
who Is a graduate IT the Opera Comique
n Berlin, has made grea' progress a. a
niger Of the colorafure .epertoire during /
ler absence on to';r AariA l.abla has
zen singing in the Hungarian opera
,Ouas AZ Budapest and somebody has
made hs error Of calling her the DS'se Of
IJScis weidt Il 70 sing BrGAnhRds at
he Munich Wagner festival this summer
annie Krlll y going 10 Prague with the
Dresden company from the Royal Opera
House 20 present. "ElektTa' there for the
lTst time during the opera festival next
Month
Fritz schrOSdsr, who has been a mem
or Of the company az the Imperial Opera
louise IN Vienna for the last TWENTY-FIVE
ears, recently celebrated the anniver-
ary Of his first appearance In Auher's
IL Domino N0ir' IN 1855. Edith do Ilys,
MO a 20 appear AZ the Italian soprano
4 the Prague festival, will sing Ls0ROTe
n ~ TrovAtors.' Elrtrd In -Ernani.'