New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1916-04-19
GRAND OPERA WITH A REAL
NOVELTY.

NOVelLy Ill STduU opera - ~ uuuoudl
that when it is encountered we are in
clined to raise the eyebrows questioning
ly. But soon music lovers of this state
are to enjoy grand opera-with ballet
of the most pretentious kind mixed in
with tin which the novelty element
is so pronounced as to justify capital
"N".
The organization to furnish this I'M
usual quality is the Boston Grand Opera
Company, and when it appears at the
Auditorium in St. Paul next week it
will be in conjunction with the Pavlowa
Ballet Russo, headed by the wonderful
Pavlowa herself.
And thereby hangs a tale; a tale that
has set captious critics to writing this
year as they have not written: before for
a long time. All because of the novelty,
aforesaid, which has to do with the COM
bining of first class operate institution
with ballet company of corresponding
rank.
Pavlowa conceived the idea.
Max Rabinoff, now an operate i'm
presario, carried it out.
The result, we are told, will be per-
manent opera in future for Boston,
Philadelphia and other large cities, by
an organization that also is to make
annual appearances in this as we'll as
several other progressive communities.
Leaping full grown from the active
brain Of the ever busy Pavlowa, the idea
was caught and made captive late last
spring. Almost before day had elapsed
cable wires were sizzling with offers to
distinguished opera stars who had not
left the turmoil of Europe, and telegraph
wires carried invitations to distinguished
singers to consider positions with the
Boston Grand Opera Company. AS for
the ballet, that was an assembled unit
PavloWa's Ballet Russo, which she had
carried en- tour for several successive
seasons.
In point of fact, it was the desire of
Pavlowa to keep intact her artistically
superb organization which caused her to
venture into the field of opera where she
is now succeeding so we'll as to be at
tracing the attention of the entire
civilized world.
And what started with a looked-for
fifteen weeks season is now to be ex-
tended to one equally long in addition;
one which will carry this organization
numbering 206 people west and north
west and south and southwest. In
brief, tour to the Pacific Coast by way
OF nearly score Of states, and eastward
to New York again.
Most notable will be the presentation
OF Puccini's charming, if tragic, Madame
Butterfly with cast which the COM
poser always wished to have-a Japanese
prima donna soprano in the role of the
little Cho-Cho-San, an American tenor
as the faithless naval lieutenant, B. F.
Pinkerton, and an American baritone as
the consul, Sharpless.
The artists appearing in MADAME
Butterfly, as the Boston Grand Opera
Company presents it, and which caused
New York, Boston, Chicago, Phila-
delphia and other audiences to exclaim
In wonderment at it's perfection, are
Miss Tamaki Miura, the only Japanese
singer who has gained a foremost place
on the grand opera stage; Riccardo Mar
tin, the foremost of American dramatic
tenors; and Thomas Chalmers, baritone
who would be drawing $1,000 night il
he had an Italian name.
Naturally, the interest of the public
has centered in the tiny woman from the
Orient whose personal magnetism and
Individual charm appear to have won for