The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-09-17

electrical equipment and other essen
tails, in order to make this play the
success OF the waning dramatic season.
Theatrsseers to Select Opera.
Manager Smith has just completed
arrangements to bring the famous
Aborn English Grand Opera Company
to the opera house this season for
one performance. This no. d organiza-
ton plays very few cities that are not
large enough to support an engage
ment of one week or more, and conse-
quently 1t carries complete and elabo-
rate productions for six different
operas, all of which are presented In
some cities, and only one, two or more
In others, according to the length Of
engagement. The local management
requests that all OF the music lovers
here and in surrounding cities and
towns let them know their first, second
and other choices in the list of operas
given. The Aborn repertoire includes
That's" Madam Butterfly" THE
Tales of Hoffman," I'll Trovatore,"
Lucia di Lammermoor'' and Martha"
distinctly different from each other,
and each representing the most enjoy
able features of its class.
That's" by Jules Messenet. the great
modern French composer, was the We
hicle IN which Mary Garden made her
.
produced in its originla language by
Oscar Hammerstein at the Manhattan
opera house, New York, and has since
been q sensational success In Chicago
and few other very large cities. 1t
was first produced in English by
Messrs. Aborn last spring at the Bos-
ton opera house, where 1t was received
with great enthusiasm, and repeated
this reception in New York, Philadel-
phia, Baltimore, Washington and Chi
cago under the Aborn management. A
dramatic version Of the same story was
also one of the biggest hits of the past
season on Broadway, and closely APP
opera.
Madam Butterfly" by Giacomo PUG
CHIN, the most famous of living Ital-
ian composers, the story OF which was
taken from the drama of the same
name by David Belasco and John Luz
ther Long. needs little introduction to
American operagoers, for its great sue
cess in both Italian and English is one
of the striking instances of recent the
atrfcal history. Messrs. Aborn made an
elaborate new production of it for their
revival Of this opera in New York last
winter. which is now carried intact by
this company. Puccinin is also the
composer of La Tosca," Ia Boheme"
and "The Girl of the Golden West"
Jacques Offenbach. the composer OF
"The Tales OF Hoffmann," was the
idol Of Paris for a score of years, where
ceeded each other in cumulative es
his delightful, operas comique succeed
ed each other in cumulative esteem,
each one outdoing the success of it's
predecessor. THE Tales of Hoffman,"
was his last and greatest opera, first
produced about thirty years ago,
though It was not adequately intro
duced to this continent until Ham
merstein presented 1t as a novelty at
the Manhattan, where its triumph was
instantaneous, and where it remained
one OF the strongest drawing cards in
the repertoire every season. Shortly
after the Hammerstein production in
French four years ago, Messrs. Aborn
gave THE Tales of Hoffman," for the
first time in English, and duplicated
the Manhattan success.
I'll Travatore," by Giuseppe Verdi
is one of the most familiar and popu-
lar Of all grand operas, and no classic
repertoire is complete without it. It is
so well known, the world over, that it
needs no extensive recounting of its
musical and dramatic beauties.
:. Lucia di Lammermoor," by Gaetano
Donizetti, its pathetic and beautiful
story taken from SCOTS famous novel,
The Bride of Lammermoor,' is one of
the greatest of all the lyric operas,
and one of the few works of this old
school invariably demanded by opera