The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-12-25
N The WORLD OF MUSIC
rNGIj ErRT VIPER DINCk's
kUi NHSkINDER''
To Hr rr",ucri NJ the Metropolitan
urN'ra Hou'" on " eSinrssiay NIght
Sew Opera Wade Out sf Az Old play
IA NunahlEts of " alter Damrw.cb.

?. ',,.'" nation in regard O. tho forth.
. n..dr!"tIon Of -konigskind.r- "A,
-.. Metropolitan Opera Hous. reach..
...f.Ir to-day it will b. in spit. of the
. Ing apathy of the publishers vi
"N fur more than a week past II
rrr im3n>sible Tor any ON. TO OBJ
..-, 70 -'"rc ut the opera, and the English
.-..r'r has been n dream. The ag.tatnr
...t'v at tn. opera house. a man IL
.r'rgy. has been sitting with hands
p. .ai aud halpless. FOR the simple reason
'r4. n",ruli NOT procur. any information
e. .,v Nlnd to deliver tn newspapers.
I. wi~ all 81 different when The Girl
o. OBJ" Golden West was in the making.
I.nrn was an ocean 81 fund matter rolling
Tough all the channels of publicity.
berry day something Leaked out about
r.- new and wonderful creation of tho
.."s- brain II tn. master craftsman 81
Italian "pera. The Milan newspapers
wore crowded with interviews. Il is
p t,rect"d that some Of the editions which
fol Ink" thundsrbolts upon the offices of
Wv York papers were P,icciri eAtr,s
rNn local Italian newspapers w.r. also
|' r'mlng with the glad tidings Of TN.
y-rgrr-s of the score. Every time that
-
.'nuhl" hIsses the presses w.rc started
ctIn - that the world nigh, share III.
general happiness. And then to think
r"w 'r"aCherous they were after all
u j. whispered among those sufficiently.
vol informed to read Tta liam pap-a;-s that
'nner " them PVT their once iciolised
rIccInl IN the pillory and all because h..
3D., refused To h" the same old PucCini.
O.. tai that h.,-
uRrv murmurs about -unn Ernnda
rrrchcria \ -porchsria. polite reader
= on" II thosN things about which W.
hunk but If " hich We ar" not IN ,h.. Ia bit
W speaking. Tn" Germans. who ar.
PLAN spoken people. call IL a -schwei-
u"r"i" and do not hesitate to talk pretty
r'niy about il. Perhaps Wa Americans
would content ourselves with exclaimins
mat 1t was rubbish hut that is not jri,t
what thu artistic Italians mean when ;Lsy
Nv -porcheria. or he ,deaIist'c Germans
when they griInt "schw, inarel-
Neither would any American OF open
u.nh declare that the Girl of the Golden
West was rubbish. because il - nothing
VI tho sort But that the ItaIi an wouh
md fault with il because It was MT tho
no Il puccini 10 which ;hay were a",u.-
toned was inevitable.
This however. has nothing 10 de- " tn
'n.' matter referred ~ N tn. opening
-.''3'snc"- If this -cre.d Although Il
"a been Impossible to get any nforma-
TN from m" official sources at the otcra
h0u-''. some has been acquired elsewhere
k"nlGsk .nder- - IA German fairy tal.
=. rhr-. acts 10y Ernst Rosrn.r" ,EI.,
Earn-tcin, IL was produced. with music
"y EngeiNert Humperdinck In Munich.
,'.InUary 3. 1891 The chief actors wer.
i.!Sa Drummer and Herr Redmond Elsa
bernstein. the author. IL daughter Of
heinrich PCTges. conductor and COMPOSER
s1o was a friend Of Wagner and Ii-zt
81" wrote many papers in ardent advo-
'tiCy of the theories Of Wagner Ono,
=. Ienned study Of Tristan und Isolde,
g::h the result that ne was forthwith
,'Immoncd 20 Munich by the mad King
L-dwig
Ne daughter intended her pIlv - bn
accepted as profoundly symbohcal Th.~
H. most grateful to all critics. sine. IL pro-
vide- them with material for much com
msnt overwhelmingly learned IN appear
ance. We shall hear much about this
symbolism before this biIshing Hump.r-
dinck goes back tn Berlin II - by no
means Improbable that something may
b" aid about it even IN this place
MIR. Eumperdinck composed the music
to the play IN 1sas-Os The Introduction.
To- Acts , and 3 wer" produced AT a CON
cert of the Bach Society in Hcdelberg
on June ,. 1898. Mr. Hump.rdinrk CON
Quoted These pieces were also per-
formed in Frankfort. Berlin and Ieipsic
before the play was produced AT the
Nontauk Theatre Brooklyn. on November
-. 1893. at a concert of the Brooklyn
~aengnrbund. conducted by Lotus Koem-
fn"T.ich the Introduction 20 Act > was
played Both introductions wer. given
in Boston by the local symphony orchestra
Under the baton Of Emil Paur on Deccrn-
tor 20. 1893 The play was produced in
German at the Irving Place Theatre on
April 20 ls9s The principal actor. were
ignes Sorma and Rudolph Christians
Tho manager was Heinrich Conred
The play was brought forward in
ing sh at the Herald Sruare Theatre
on November 2. rag Martin Harvey.
N. English actor. impersonst'-d the
Elngs -on and Mrs Harvey the goose
glrl This English version was ny r
tanghrIdg. and \ II Ferru. The lyric
version IN English. especially prepared
'.r IN. approaching production at the
Charles Henry Meltzer
Nr Hump"rdinck wroi" a programme
NOT" for the introduction 90 IN. third act
70 "a Used Of COLTS. when the piece il
i"r'prmed in concert IL reads thus
The two royal children in their Eight.
-I"L hungry. cold. look for shelter. Round
about is a dreary and cold winter land
-"ap. Sorrowful recollertion- OF the
former rays of their short hapDine@e IN
the wanderers with a new longing IN live.
IT, Yain. They are doomed To destruction.
Euin"d -cieadi Yet they still live in the
a"ng that the faithful minstrel sang 10
rh"m a. he stood near them, joined in
nv" starved and frozen in th. winter
NOW
This little programme note gives ~ some
insight into the nature of the STORY. which
- greater length runs thus: The son ri
srDg goes ont into the wide world tn s"ek
In sh.. forest pf HtIla in the