New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-02
Canterbury Pilgrims" by
De Koven and Mackaye,
on Metropolitan List.
CASAZZA'S SONGBIRDS
OPEN NOVEMBER 10
Last Years Company In
tact and Several Singers
Are Added.

grand opera season Of twentythree
weeks. during which several novelties
and REVEALS will be presented, in addi-
ton to the standard repertory is an
nounced in the prospectus Of the Met
ropolitan Opera Company, which has
just been issued. Last seasons per-
sonnet will be retained. with several
rev singers added to the list.
Chief among the novelties 20 be pro-
duced il The Canterbury Pilgrims a
four-act opera, by Reginald De Koven.
with libretto by Percy Mackaye. This
will be the fifth opera by an American
composer which the present manage
ment Of the company has staged 10 en-
courage American operate art.
D'Annunzio Tragedy Listed.
Other operas new to America which
will De heard during the coming season
are Francesca da Rimini.' Gabrielle
D'Annunzio's tragedy, set TO music by
Ricardo Zandonai, composer already
favorably known in this country, and
Christopher Gluck's "Iphigenia in
Tauris." The French repertory will be
increased by revivals of Massenet' )
"Thais." DE bes's "Lakme" and Bizet's
Les Pecheurs des Perles."
Special performances will include an
afternoon cycle Of the Nibelungen
Ring. several performances OF "Parsi-
fal' and series of matlnees Of the
novelties. A certain number OF Satur-
day night performances az popular
Prices is planned, and the Sunday night
concerts. SO successful IN former sea-
IONS, will be continued.
The new singers announced include
Alice Eversman. Odette lie Fontenay
and Marie Sundelius, sopranos; Kath-
leen Howard, mezzo; Fernando Carpi.
tenor. and Paul Bender, baritone.
Caruso Farrar, Gadski. Matzenauer,
Scott and Homer will be heard in ia
vorite roles.
Conductors Are Retained.
Artur Bodanzky and Giorgio Polacco
have been retained a. conductors, and
Gennaro Papi has been engaged IN the
same capacity. An orchestra Of 100
musicians and chorus Of 40 singers
will be under their direction.
The first performance will be given
Monday night. November -. The reg
uIar subscription performances Will
take place on Monday. Wednesday
ursday and Friday nights and Satur-
day afternoons.
The members Of the company are:
Sopranos-Frances Aida. Maria Bar
rientos, Lucrezia Bori, Anna Case, Vera
Curtis. Emmy Destinn. Minnie Egeneri
Alice Eversman, Geraldine Farrar, Rita
Fornia. Johanna Gadski, Mabel CARR
son, Frieda Hempel, Melanie Kurt
Odette lie Fontensy, Edith Mason
Alice Nielsen, Marie Rappold, Leonora
Spsrkes. Marie Sundelius and Rosna
Van Dyck.
Mezzo-Soprcnos and Contraltos
Mariska Alirich. Emma Borniggia,
Sophie Braslau, Raymonde De.aunois,
Louise Homer, Kathleen Howard
Helen Mapleson, Marie hatfield, Mar
garete MATCHMAKER. Florence milford,
Flora Perrin, Lila Robson and Ernes-
tine Schumann-Heink
Tenors-Pau Althouse. Pietro Au
disio, Angelo Bads. julius Bayer, Max
Bloch, Luca Botta, Fernando Carpl.
Enrico Caruso. Eduardo Ferrari-Fon
.ana. Ricardo Martin. Giovanni Mar
tinell. Albert Reiss. Johannes Sem
bach and Jacques Urlus.
Barytones Pasquale Amato. Bernard
Begue. Paul Bender, Giuseppe de Luca,
Otto Goritz. Mario LAURENT. Robert
Leonhardt. Nincenzo Reschiglan, Carl
Schlegel, Antonio Scott, Ricardo
Tegani Herman Well and Clarence
Whitehill.
Bassos Carl Braun, Alamo Didur,
Pompilio Malatesta. Arthur Middleton.
Giulio Rossi, Leon Rothier, Basyl
Ruysdael. Andrea de Segurola and
Henri Scott.
Conductors Artur BodanZky, Giorgio
Polacco. Gennaro Papi, Richard Hage'
man and Adolf ROthmeyer. Assistant
Conductors Giuseppe Bamboscheck,
Paul Eisler. Salvatore Fucito. Frederic
Jacob, Francesca Romei. Hans Steiner
and Willy Tyroler.
Chorus master. Giulio Setti; techni-
cal director. Edward Siedle; stage man
ayers. Jules Speck and Jan Heythekker;
assistant stage managers. Lodovico
Viyiani and Oscar Same; ballet mas
ters. Pauline Nerhoeven and Ottokar
Bartik; premiere danseuse. Rosina
Cali: premier dsnseur, Giuseppe Bon
fgio: solo dRnseuse. Queenle Smith,
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