Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-10-07
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OPEN NOVEMBER II
Opera Season Plans Call for Re-
tention of Favorites-Popu-
lar Scores to Be Revived.

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NEW YORK, Oct. 7.-On Novem-
Der II, at the Metropolitan Opera
House, managed by Giulio Gatti-
Casazza. the Metropolitan Opera
Company is to open its sixth season;
continuing to April Is, it adds three
weeks to the usual season. Regular
performances, as heretofore, on Mon.
day, Wednesday, Thursday and Fri
day nights, Saturday matinees and
also special Saturday nights at half
price in the second half of the sea-
son. Tuesday evenings, the Chicago
Opera Company and "ParstfaT on
dates to be announced. The Nibelun-
gen Ring in matinees will have a
new scenic investiture, Sunday eve
ming concerts will continue, with dis
tinguished soloists already engaged
and with singers of the opera COM
pany.
New works will be Victor Her
bert's Madeleine" libretto by Grant
Stuart; Strauss's "Rosenkavalier;'
charpentier Julien with the COM
poser here to hear it; Wolff-Fer-
raris "L'Amore Madico," all but
MADELEINE" having been heard and
liked in Europe; and Italo Monte
mezzis "L'Amore die Ire Re" libret-
to by the play writer. Sero Benelh'
Among the revivals will be Car
men," with Geraldine Farrar; "Gug-
liel1no TELL" possibly with Caruso;
"samson ct DELLA" with Nine.
Matzenauer in the leading role for
women; Boito's "Mefistofele' and
Ballo in 'Maschera."
New Operas May be Heard.
Held In reserve and possibly to be
given this season are Debussy's LIE
I,egend de Tristan" La Chute de
la Maison Usher" and lie Diable
dams lie Belfroi," besides Giordano's
"Mme. Sans Gene" and Maurice
Ravelss "L'Heure Espagnol. Among
the ballots will be tho "Coppelia,
by Dellbes and Saint-Saens's ia
Vote"
Few changes in the personnel of
the opera company are announced.
Among the newcomers are the con-
traltos, Margaret ODER, Lillian Eu-
bank and Sophie Breslau; the tenors,
Rudolf Berger and Giovanni Mar
tinelH. the former in German and the
latter in italian, in the roles such as
are sung by Caruso. Two new barl-
tones will be Robert Leonhardt and
Carl Schlegel. Favorite singers re-
turning are as follows;
The singers.
Frances. Aida, Bella Alien, Lucrezia
Bori, Anna Case, Louise Cox, Vera
Curtis, Envy Destinn, Geraldine Far
rar. Rita Fornia, olive Fremstad'
Johanna Gadski, Frieda Hempel,
Ethel Parks, Bernice de Pasqual,
Marie Rappold, Lenora Sparkes and
Rosina Van Dyck.
Contraltos and mezzos-Emma
Borniggia, Maria Duchene, Louise
Homer, Helen Mapleson, Jeanne
Maubourg. Marie hatfield, Mar
garete Matzenauer and Lila Robson.
Tenors-Enrico Caruso, Paul Ait
house, Pietro Audiso, Angelo Bada-
Julius Bayer, Carl Burrian, Austin
Hughes, Carl Jorn, Riccardo Martin,
lambert Murphy, Albert Reiss ana
jacques Urius.
Baritones-Pasquale Amato, Ber-
nard Begue, Dinh Gilly, Otto Goritz,
vincenzo Reschiglian, Antonio Scott
and Hermann Well.
Bassos-Paolo Ananian, Carl
Braun, Adamo Didur, Putnam Girls
void, Antonio Pini-Corsi, Marcel
Reiner. Giulio Rossi, Leon Rothier.
Basil Ruysdael, Andrea de Segurola
af1 Herbert Witherspoon. ~.
y Occasional appearances will be
made by Alice Nelson, Maria
-laasens and Edoardo Ferrari-Fon-
lana. of the Boston Opera Company,
and Julia Claussen and Clarence
whitehall. of the Chicago company.
Conductors will be The eminent Ar
l,1ro Toscanini, with Alfred Hertz,
Georgia Polacco, Hans Morgenstern
md Richard Hageman. The operas
given are to be selected from the fol-
owing repertory:
The Repertoire.
Blech, "Versieg ell t." Damrosch,
'Cyrano;" Donizetti, Don Pasquale"
and Lucia di Lammermoor;" Flotow,
MARTA" Gounod. Faust" Gluck,
'orfeo ed Euridice" and "Armide s,n
Humperdinck, "Hansel und Gretef'
ind "Konigskinder;" Leoncavallo,
'Pagliacci; Mascagni, "Cayalleria
2usticana;" Meyerbeer, 1.-The Hugue-
nots;" Massenet "Manon" and "Wer-
her" Moussorgsky, Boris Godu-
loft" Mozart, lie Nozze di Figaro"
ind "Die Zaubertlote;" Offenbach,
lies Vontes dHoffmann;" Ponchelli,
LA Gioconda;" Puecini, La Bo-
herne,' Madame Butterfly "Manon
| scaut" "Tosca" and THE Girl of
Golden West" Rossini III Bar
re di Siviglia;" Smetana, "The Bar
I'D Bride" Verdi, Aida" "Otello,"
koletto," La Traviata," I'll Trov-
L" and "Falstaff;" Wagner, Der
kende Hollander," 'Lohengrin,"
knhaeuser, Tristan and Isolde"
i Meistersinger Won Nurnberg,"
lrsifal." "Das Rheingold," die
.lkuers," 'Siegfried" and "Goetter-
-mmerung;" Wolf Ferrari, III
greto di Susanna" and LIE Dome
riose"
AIong educational lines the chorus
hooi and ballet school will be con-
| nued, with Mr.. Morgenstern con-
lcting the chorus, and Pauline YER
Hcxan the ballet Eva Swain, grad
isf,. from the school, is the premiere,
with Ettore Croppini and Ottokar
sartik. ballet masters. Jules Speck
continues MS stage director, and the
management announces the engage
nent OF Or. Franz Hoerth, from Ger
many. in helping the stage manage
wi to-