The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-09-29
MUSTPAY HlGHPOR"THE CIR" y
METROPOLITAN HAS To PUTTP
5000 FOR Predicting 1T.
Music Publishers want Compensation.
which Wtii Have To Ne Added 10 tho
Already Great Csst q Dringing Out
the PueeInl Opera Of Amerieanlsm.

which WIN Have To Ne Added 10 tho
Already Great Csst % bringing Oat
the PueeInI Opera Of AmerieanIsm.
! II has just become known that the
Metropolitan Opera Company will he
Obliged To pay for the privilege Of pro-
ducing the new Puccini opera. The Girl
81 the Golden West" the sum Of s. 900
Under ordinary circumstances any COM
poser. and accordingly any music pub
Usher. 1t il thought. would he delighted
To have work done for the first time
under such favorable conditions. IL
would be impossible anywhere else in
tn" world to gather n company that
would include IRruso. Amato. DiduT
3 Gilberi and Gilly and Nine. Destinn
with Arturo 1osCanini - conduct the
work. In spite of that great advantage. .
h ,wever and the care that is To he taken
in preparing the scenery and cost umes.
IN" arm ~ Ricordi has demanded as an
EXTRA Cumpen sation the sum ~ 5000
IN" rivalry between music publishers
in Italy ~ SO great" one Of the officers
of the Metropolitan said yesterday. that
anybo would suppose that Signor
Puccinis publishers would he glad To-
haN. his opera sung here whore II will
not only he produced by singers that
cannot be found anywhere else but will
also he heard by a perfectly fair and
unpre JUDGED public. They see. however.
that II 10 possible to squeeze a little bit
more out Of the rich Metropolitan and they
thought 81 this s.. 600.
1T ~ exactly analogous with the de-
mapd recently made by Richard Strauss
that all the German opera houses before
they got the rights TO produce his latest
opera should agree To give four perform
auC-s a seas"n of ElsktrA and Saiome
Hut Signor Puccini has made So much
uut of the United states his operas have
been sung here more than IN all the other
countries OF the world put together and
such liberal royalties that one might
have thought the conditions for the intro
duCtion IL his American opera would have
been different
1t might have been thought. for in
stance. that he would say this work was
10 nave such a wonderful performance
that q Is his first altogether American
opera ~ be given az the foremost Ameri-
can opera house. 80 that under the cir
Cumstanc-s he would be glad To- have IL
sung here On the usual terms. 80 say the
least That Il what one might have
thought appropriate IN place ~ the de-
mand for an extra s. .OJp.
II l. interesting 20 remember in this
connect ion that n the publishers of this 3
opera had allowed its production in Italy
first Il would have been neSe-sary for them
20 nav Tor the cost 81 1t. Here they not
only have the finest cast ~ singer avail.
able IN the world. tut the Metropolitan
opera company will not spend a cent
ir>s than SPODO Tor the secenery and
Cu-tumes Edward Sledle has already
finished ~" SC"ne-y which he was allowed
10 make A. beautiful ~ he desired
II - quite settled that New York will
not thi- seaarn hea- Jean Nouzeus'z Quo .
NadI- which il 10 - ore ~ the novelties
~ the season ia Chicagu and Philadelphia
here has not been ia years such a -en-a- Z
'ipual success ~ furOrs The opera will
- sung OF saturday for The first time AZ
the Imprrial OperA House m Vienna
u has already re.-n gwen m PraUIe
lhirty-sIght German oTera houses will 4
give the work this winter. II will be
sung IN chicago and then in Philad phiA .
by the Chicago company. but ~ has been .
found impossible 20 transfer the large .
production 10 this City for one perform
ar"a - he French ssa an 10 10 given here
hv the Ihica go company - January.
-, great - the sNts.' 80 - mounting ths
tee. ,uct m .sVsTal Instan,s .. three VI
four G"rinEu opera hpuscs have dis Ided
-" cp-' # producing the opera and ave
CO.. Ice the scenery ~ common