The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-12-06

IN L
lN public a revival VI Webers
"Euryauthc" at the Metropoh-
,a,, ,pera House. II Is to hc hoped that
the old romantic German opera viii
arouse the general interest which its
beautiful music deserves. That the book
t. clumsy and almost stupid need NOT
greatly concern any operag"er. tn"
vas, majority of the hahitues NJ th'
Metrupn.itan opera House de- not read
Nm, Uhr,tt. : III operas ana uuNr only
VAGUE ideas " the stories g TN" works.
Tho plu, .t "EurNduj,r' vii Su.t .nr'r
tastes quite a. we'll "a other plots WH'h
thov do not know ~ dctail - correctly.
More important Tor them Is the in ,
formation that the opera provtd"S dhun- /
dant field for spectacular display, Tor 7
brilliant and pleasing stage pictures, tor
broad vigorous. dramatic singing Tor
moments Of lyric beauty ard for orchcs- /
tral support Of effective type
OF the higher artistic qualities of the ,
work. Of it's important historical SIG
nificance Of the immense irnuenc" "i
lis composers methods on al German
music since his time, of even his an
prossion ON the musical though If
France through the channel of Berlio%s
warm admiration, b is unnecessary to
y
hans he discussed in this place should
"Euryanthe" prove to ne VI sufficient
Interest in these days t. warrant 'N-
tended comment.
The opera is certainly unfamiliar TO
New York II had a few performances
ffty-one years ago al Wallacks "ld
theatre In Bruome street The director
who hld the courage to bring FORWARD
the opera IN those far on days was car
Anschuetz II slept till December 70
1887. when II was produced az the
Metropulitan Opera House, where Ed
mund g stanton was the manager ana
Anton Seldl the principa' conductor.
Tho singers were as follows: EnrDdnihc.
r,li Lehman: Byzantine. Mar anne
Brandt. idoinr. Mas Alvary. LHs'drf'
Emil Els 'hcr. the King. Johannes elm
blad R'riG Minnie Dilthev; rudolph
Mr. Ferency Mr. Seidl conducted
The opera had four performance and
was then retired LIS reappearance IN
IN. ACTIVE. list Is due In the initiative O!
Ar,urn Toscaninl. whose appreciation ~
German works finds ready sympathy III
The tastes Of Mr.. Gatti-tasaZZa.
German operas enjoy "a security 10"
xhich thoy did no, have even in the
remarkable times Of Lehman. Seidl
and their associates. Much misteddinS
history hai. been written about those
times and We are too often invited 10
holieve that they were the grand old
DAYS Of opera IN this to"n. As mat
TOR Of fact the position Of German opera
was simply ths: II was admitted to
the Metropolitan as stop gap ana Ell
dured as "A necessary evil
This has no hearing on the indlSputa
Ma truth that many genuinely Srea'
performances We're given. SifgJH'd hh'
never again died Oh TINS stage as ne NV
when Niemann sang out has last slehs
Isolde has never lg ain lived nor bfuh"'
hide fired Walhal as they did "her
Lehman eXtinguished the loren OF tht
one and lighted that Of the other ln'
score of Tristan und Isolde and thl'
Of "Dir Meistcrsinger" have never peer
20 elouuently read as they were ny 'l'
lamented Seldl And there were many
other lt,ms-the great Sdchs at'
Wotah of Fischer. the brilliant y"un'
sieofri,d Of Alvary- which may h'
passed.
When Abbey. Schoeffel Grau ende'
their season of iSs3-s4, the tlrst al M
Metrnpnlltan's history. with al enor
NOUS pecuularS detci' ana ma" u
abandon thu ncld the Stockholders q
DR. Leopold panrosch to give opera II
German. There seemed to u' upthin
Else tn ,u except 10 clre the house. MI
Stanton. secretary "a the board OF Il!
rectors was appointed manager ART"
the sudden death Of Or Damr"sch'
The business showed deficit Gao
season. This Vas however. cNpecte'
Bat tho Stockholders who were natu
rally al bpNhplders did not enjoy th
serious German works night after nier
aud they objected s,renuously 10 IA
hpd singing of the Germans Three e.
-four Of tn, company were cunsUmmt'
vocal artists uu' the others We're villa
were called az that ,lmr Wagner singer
II was IN the season ~ 1SS7-SN. IL,
in which "Euryanthr' WAS revived tina
the disaffcction reached an active stat
A communicative was addressed by III
directors to the stockholders to ascel
tain Just how they stood as 10 the cor
tluuatiun If German opera They wei
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