Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1918-10-31
ALLIED OPERA Will
SOON Be ON AGAIN
Singers From Paris, London.
Petrograd and American
Cities Are Assembling.

Chicago-Allied opera Sith France
and Italy pr~edominating as providers
will again this season stimulate the
musical appetite of followers of the
Chicago Opera Association. Wagner
ian operas are taboo with the Chicago
company.
With many new singers from Paris.
| London, Petrograd and Rome. not to
mention America, General Director
| Cleofonte Campinini has completed his
| plans for the season which include
many premieres and novelties. AS last
year, the singers will participate In a
-preseasonal tour of three weeks In
western and southern cities. and, fol-
lowing the Chicago season, will open
the company's second New York ap-
pearance on January q, 1919, at the
Lexington Theater.
Virtually all of the greater luminaries
cago. and two OF them. Mary Garden
and Lucien Muratore, are expected to
have the leading roles in the world
premiere of "Gismonda.' The COM
poser. Henry Favrier, has been granted
leave by the French government to at
tend. The libretto is based on the play
OF the same name by SSTdou.
Other new work to b. heard include
lie Chemineau," a favorite at the
Paris Opera Comiqua aud lie Cadeau
VIC &SOcts diiOllST pOPuldT opera III tN0
French capital. both by Xavier Leroux.
lie Chemineau" Is founded upon 1.-The
verse. and lie Cadeau de Noel" is
based upon an incident Of the world
war.
Another composition introduced in
1907 at the Paris Opera Comicue where
1t was recorded as an achievement, but
which Is new to America, Is Camille
Changers "Aphrodite."
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Mascagni which had it, premiere in
seven old world cities simultaneously
on January II. 1901. and "Don Carlos"
Giuseppe Verdi's creation Immediately
preceding "Aida." are other operas new
to the Chicago repertoire.
Last, but Director Campanini in his
desire to- aid American composers
would put it first, is Homer Moore's
Louis XIV" This work was first pre-
scented in st. Louis and has been re-
vised.
Nine. CALI Curci will be heard in re-
vivals of Linda da C~hamounix" and
other compositions.
Caroline Lazzari's splendid record
last season in "Dinorah" and lisa
veau" a won her a leading role in
the revival OF and Delilah:"
Beryl Brown. Miss Dorathy Jardon.
Nine. Margaret Namara, formerly Of
the Boston Opera, Miss Emma Noe and
Mr.. William Roeerson. tenor. 1t Is said
here that Campanini discovered" Miss
Jardon in a New York hotel where the
beauty Of her singing in an adjacent
room led the director to seek the former
vaudeville singer and request her to
| sing for him. She has been promised
her opportunity in Fedora"
Miss Sylvia Tell. an American. will
be the premiere danseuse Of the COM
pany.
Other new artists from abroad arc
Nine. Vira Amazar. Petrograd soprano:
Mile. Martha Chenal. Paris soprano
Miss Doro Gibson. soprano Of covent
Garden Royal House. London; Mile.
Yvonne Gall. Paris Opera oprano
Guido Ciccolini. tenor. Rome: Alessan-
dro Dolci. tenor. Milan; Charles Fon-
taine. Paris tenor: Lodovico Oliviero,
tenor. Turin: John F. O'Sullivan, tenor.
Paris: Virgilio Lazzari, basso, Naples:
Mario Vale. baritone. Bologna: Louis
Hasse. mans conductor of Paris Opera
Comique; Giorgio Polacco. formerly
conductor Of the Metropolitan, New
York.
Vanni Marcoux. Paris opera baritone.
after o years in h French armies.
and Marcel Gourmet, Paris Grand Opera
basso, are returning.
Crimi is the only great favorite who
does not return. He has gone to the
Metropolitan.