Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-12-18
GALAXY OF OPERA
/ SINGERS COMING
San Carlo Company Has Splendid Ar.
ray of Celebrities for Tri-Ifts
Performance.
ARTISTS or WORLD FAM
Management Promises All viii BE
Here for Concerts Under Mnsl-
cal Society Auspices.

An array Of celebrities OF the grand /
opera world that should place the tri~ /
cities very prominently on the opera |
man OF the country, will be brought |
here with the San Carlo Opera COM /
pany when that noted organization Of
songbirds comes for its three per-
formances, giving Aida IN Dayen- |
port at the Burtis opera house Wed |
nesday evening. Dec. %; "Cavalleria /
Rustieana" and "T'Pagliaeci," Thurs
day matinee at the Illinois theatre, |
Rock Island and Lucia di Lammer-
moor" at the Moline theatre, Moline,
Thursday evening. There are some
20 in number, artists who have sung
with enviable success upon the
worlds greatest opera stages, both in
this country and abroad,
Roster of Principals.
The roster Of principals, all of whom
il is promised by the San Carlo man
agement. will be heard, is as follows;
soprani: Mines, Edvige Vaccari5
coloratura, for two seasons leading
soprano with the National Opera, Mex
leo City, before the revolution made
impossible the giving Of opera in the
southern republic. She sang the lead
ing roles with Signor Bonci, world
renowned tenor: Mary Kaestner, Ger
man prima donna, former star at the
Imperial Opera. Vienna, where she
was engaged when the foreign war
started; Sophie Charlebois, lyric So
prano, an American artist Of i've years
successes abroad; Alice Homer. an
other talented American girl who has
been received with great acclaim in
the foreign countries.
Mezzo soprani: Nine. Carolina Zaw-
ner, eminent Russian singer. from the
Imperial Opera, Moscow; Stella De-
Mette, French mezzo; Annette Chabot,
Anita Hasse.
| Tenori: Messrs. Manuel Salazar,
| premier tenor of Spain, whose Ameri~
can debut at the Boston Opera house
with the San Carlo company recently
won a veritabIe ovation for the new
conner; Giuseppe Agostini, the versa
tile dramatic artist, famous as the Gre
ator in America Of the role of Rodolfo,
in LaBoheme; Alfredo Giaziani, for
mer star artist with the Montreal
| Opera company Luciano Rossini, FROM
the Carlo Felice. Florence
| Baritoni: Messrs. Angelo Antola,
| celebrated az the premier singer Of
the prologue, in Pagliacei, a charac-
ter wherein he will appear at Rock
| Island at the matinee performance
Dec. 81; Alesandro Modest former
leading baritone of this Leoncavallo
/ Opera company; Luigi Dellemolle,
from the Costanzi theatre, Rome.
Bassi: Messrs. Pietro DiBiasi. dis
tinguished first basso of the original
Boston Opera company; Natalie Cervi,
the popular basso buffa from the Mon
treal Opera company.
/ Premiere Danseuse: Mile. Margher-
| tia Pezzatini, former star at the Gov
I ent Garden, (Londonl Grand Opera,
and the Metropolitan, New York, where
/ she was a terpsichorean leader for
/ two seasons.
Musical directors: Chew. Giuseppe
Angelini, late director Of the Melba
Grand Opera company, upon its tour Of
the world; Chew. Fulgenzio Guerrieri,
one of Italy's most distinguished
maestros.
| It is noted that there are several
celebrated artists from other noted
organizations upon the roster of prin-
cipals of the San Carlo company. This
+ is by reason Of last seasons abandon
ment by all those opera associations
/ Of their plans, owing to failure to Sc
cure sufficient patronage. The pro-
/ hibitive price at which their tickets
were placed is said to be responsible
| for the situation, when the San Carlo
organization alone, among all others,
t brought its tour to a splendid success.