Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-10-12
GERMAN GRAND
Il OPERA TABOO
French and Italian Artists
to Predominant
in Cities.

O11Cd8Os OcI. 12.-Allied opera
with France and Italy predominating
as providers will again this season
stimulate h musical appetite Of fol-
lowers Of the Chicago Opera associa-
ton. Wagnerian operas the taboo
with the Chicago company.
y 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 in
clude many premieres and novelties.
AS last year. the singers will partici-
pate In a Pre-seasonal tour of three
weeks In western and southern cities
and, following the Chicago season,
VIII open the company's second New
YORK appearance on Jan. 81, 1919, at
the Lexington theater.
Virtually all Of the greater lumin-
aries OF the company r returning to
Chicago, and two Of them, Mary Car
den and Lucien Muratore, are expect
ed to have the leading roles in the
world premiere of ''Gismonda." Tie
composer, Henry Fevrier, has been
granted leave by the French oyern
ment to attend. The libretto is based
on the play Of the same name bv
Sardou. -. "
Other new works to be heard in
S'AoAiAAAcau, q IaVOr1te at
the Paris Opera Comique, and lie
Cadeau de Noel" another popular
opera in the French capital, both by
Xavier Leroux. lie Chemineau" is
founded upon THE Vagabond." Jean
t~t1chep1n's drama in verse, and lie
Cadeau de Noel" is based upon an in
cident of the world war.
another composition introduced in
1907 at the Paris Opera Comiuue,
where 1t was recorded as an achieve
ment but which is new to America,
is Camille changers "Aphrodite."
lie Maschere," the work of Pietro
Mascagni, which had its premiere in
seven Old World cities simultaneous
~ on Jan. Z, 1901, and Don Carlos
Giuseppe Verdi's creation Immediate
~ 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's Louis
in St. Louis and has been revised.
Nine. Galli-Curci will be heard in
REVEALS Of LINDA da Chamounix"
and other compositions.
Caroline Lazzari's splendid record
last season in "Dinorah" and lisa
veau" has won her a leading role in
the revival Of Samson and Delilah.''
NEW american sopranos are Miss
Beryl Brown, Miss -Dorathy Jardon,
Nine. Margaret Namara, formerly of
the Boston Opera; Miss Emma Noe
and Mr.. William Rogerson. tenor.
1t is said here that Campanini dis
covered" 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 h premiere danseuse Of the COM
pany.
Other new artists from abroad are
Nine: vira Amazar. Petrograd, sopra-
no; Mile. Marthe Chenal, Paris, So
prano; Miss Doro Gibson, soprano,
Covent Garden Royal House. London;
Mile. Yvonne Cali. Paris Opera, So
prano; Guido Ciccolini, tenor, Rome:
Alessandro Dolci1 tenor, Milan: Chas.
Fontaine. Paris. tenor; Laxari, basso,
Naples; Mario Vale, baritone, Bolog-
ma; Louis Hassemans, conductor OF
Paris Opera Comique; Giorgio 'I'olac-
co, formerly conductor Of the Net
ropolitan, New York.
Vanni Marcoux. Paris Opera bari
tone. after four years in the French
armies, and Marcel Journet, Paris
Grand Opera basso. are returning.
Crimi is the only great favorite who
does not return. He has gona to the
Metropolitan,