The evening world., 1911-10-02
-FOUR NEW OPERAS,
FIVE NEW SINGERS
FOR THIS SEASON
. Catti-C aSazza Announces Plans
for $50 Performances at
Metropolitan.
RUSSIAN BALLET AGAIN.
/ Adherents of Opera in English
TO Receive a DiSap-
pointment.
RUSSIAN BALLET AGAIN

-Four new operas AT the least, FIVE new
artists and. In all, one hundred and
nifty performances are announced for
the coming New York grand opera sra-
son by Giulio Gatti-Casazza.
There will be n twenty-five weeks
season. opening Monday, Nov. 10. with
Puccinl's THE Girl OF the Golden
West" Caruso being announced for the
frst performance. There will he 10
subscription performances. on Monday.
"Wednesday. Thursday and Friday eve
nlngs and Saturday afternoons. Late
In the season there will he extra per-
formances on Tuesday and Saturday
evenings. with a series OF special NATL
nees. al which will be produced many
OF the ella ssical operas. as well ne sew
eral performances OF the Ring" and
"Parslfal."
II will be Mr.. Casazza's fourth sea son
At the Metropolitan. The repertory will
include forty-one standard operas. M
teen novelties and ~revivals and a liberal
portion OF Russian ballet.
Adherents OF the cause OF opera IN
English will be disappointed to learn
that the management has decided not
TO give any foreign works In other than
the original tongue. With contract
rights for eleven new operas. the four
which will surely be given for the first
time In this country are Mona" by
Horatio Parker and Brian Hooker.
= which won the 10000 prize contest;
Boris Goudonor,' by Mo~ussorEsky
.'1obtanx." by Thuolle and lie Donne
Curipse." by Woif-Ferrari.
IA IVAN
COMPANY.
On the reserve list are Blech's Yer
sieGeit." Franchettl's "Chrlstoforo Co
lombo." The Cricket on the Hearth"
BY Goldmark; Leroux's lie Chemi.
neau." "Amito Fritz by Mascagni;
Arthur Nevin's Twilight" ia Chute
'~6t@1e Maison Usher" lie Diable dams
le 4 efrle'' and LA Legende de Iris
tan.~s,&l by Debussy: Chsrpentier's
IA Vie de Poete," Rsvel's "'L'Heure
~EspaEnole," ''solange," by Salvsyrs
and La Refine Fiamette." by Ieroux.
Among the proposed REVEALS are men,
toned Rosslni's William Tell" Me-
hstofeIe" and Don Giovanni"
There Will he slx,y-onc regular prin-
cipals and ten others who are MEM
bers either OF the Philadelphia Chicago
or Boston opera companies. OF the
newcomers Marguerite Metzenauer. con-
traito; Theodore Orridge. mezzo-
Soprano. Heinrich Hensel. tenor: Her.
man Well. baritone, and Putnam Girls
void. basso. are .favorably mentioned.
Lula Tetrazzlni Is to make her first
appearance at the Metropolitan, and a
young concert tenor, Lambert Murphy.
has been engaged.
Enrico Caruso. Emmy Destinn. Geral.
dine Farrar. Olive Fremstad. Johanna
Gadski. Berta Moreno. Louise Homer,
Carl BurrlaD. Hermann Jadlowker. Car
Jorn, Ricardo Martin, Leo Slezak, Pas
auale Amato. Antonio Scott. DIM Gilly
and Otto 0oritz again will be In the
casts, A newly engaged conductor IL
Giuseppe Sturani. formerly OF the Man.
? n haitian and Philadelphia Opera-House,
ar under Oscar Hammersteln's rule. Arturo
Toscaninl and Alfred Hertz again vii
be the principal conductors. and the
stage managers will be Anton schcrte
and Jules speck.
Special efforts will he made 10 rails,
the standard Of the SUNDAY evening con
certs.