New-York tribune., 1919-09-22

Metropolitan Opera Company
Issues Prospectus for the
COminp Season
Coming Season


Inc prospectus of the Metropolitan
opera season Of twenty three weeks.
beginning November II, was issued ycs
terday. 1t will be Giulio Gatti-Casazza's
twelfth season as general manager Of
the Metropolitan, and in conformity
with his promise before departing for
Italy last summer he has organized a
company, including many American
artists, to present an opera programme
which will be notable for the number
of novelties and revivals.
Among the novelties will be "Cleo-
Patras Night an opera in two scenes
by the American composer, Henry Had
icy, based on the novel of Theophie
Gautier. Another novelty will be Mae
terlinck's "L'Oiseau Bleu," with music
by Albert Wolff, a young French COM
poser formerly with the Paris Opera
Comiquc, who has been engaged as one
OF the Metropolitan's conductors. The
programme also includes Henry f.
hrehblel's new translation Of Wagncr's
"Parsifal."
The other novelties include Lconca-
veilo's "Zaza" and "Eugen Oncgin," )"
q lyric drama in three acts after the
poem of Pushkin. with music by
Tschakowsky, which will be sung in
Italian.
One of the revivals will be Halovy's
masterpiece, "La Juive," which has not
been presented here for many years.
Others will be "Manon," by Massenct,
which never has been given here:
"L1taliana in Algeri," the opera boutfa
by Rossini and Oneli. The standard
repcrtory for the season follows:
belllni, Il Puritani,"; Borodine,
Prince Igor; Bizet, "Carmcn"; Doni-
zetti, "L'Elisir d'Amorc," Lucia di
Lammermoor, ''La Figlia del Reggi-
,ml,e,nto",;; Delibes, "Lakme"; Flotow,
"Marta'; GIuck, "Orfeo ed Euridice"; !;
Gournod, Faust" "Mireielle"; Leon,
cava!lo, "Pagliacci'; Leoni, "L'Ora-
colo; MascSgni, "Cavaleria Rusti-
cana" "Lodolctta"; Massenet, "ThaTs":
Meyerbcer, "Lc Prophete"; Montemessi.
L'Amore del Tire Re-; Moussorgsky
Boris Godunotr'; Mozart, "Lc Nozze
di Figaro; Ponchielli, "La Gioconda"; ,;
Puccini, "La Bohcme." "Gianni Schic-
Chi "Madama Butterfly" "Manon Les
caut." al Tabarro," "Tosca." "Suor
Angelica; Rabaud, "Marouf"; "Ricci,
"Crlspino la Comarc'; Rimsky-K or
sakoH, "Lc Coz d'Or"; Rossini, al
Barbere di Siviglia"; Saint-Saens,
"Samson ct Dalila"; Stravinsky, "Pet-
rouskha"; Verdi, "Aida," "Un Ballo in
Maschera," La Forza del Destino," "Il
rrovatore." "Rigoletto,' LA Travata"; !;
Weber, "Oberon."
The company, numbering seventy
three singers, Includes:
Sopranos Mines. Frances Aida,
Gladys Axman (new), Maria BARREN
tos Vera Curtis, Ellen Dalossy (ncw),
Florence Easton, Minnie Egener, Mary
Ellis, Margaret Farnam (new), Geral-
dine Farrar. Rita Vornia, Mabel Gar
rison, Edna Kellogg (new), Claudia
Muzio, Mary Mcllish. May Peterson,
Rosa Ponselle, Marie Rappold Mar
garet Romane, Evelyn Scotney (new),
Lenora Sparkcs, Marie Sundelius, Marie
Tiffany and Adclire Vosari (new).
Mczzo Sopranos and Contraltos -
Mines. Cecil Arden, Louise Bcrat
Mcw), Gabrielle Bcsan2oni (new),
Sophie Braslau, Julia Claussen, Ray
monde DeIaunoS. Jeanne Gordon
(new). Frances Ingham (new), Kath-
lecn Howard. Carolina Lazzari (ncw).
Helena Marsh, Marie hatfield. Mar
garet Matzenauer, Flora Perrin and
Lila Robson.
Tenors Mcssrs. Paul Althouse, Pie
tro Audisio. Angelo Bada, Fernando
Carp, Enrico Caruso, Giulio Crimi
Rafaclo Diaz, Octave Qua new)
Charles Hackett, Orvile Harold
(newl, Morgan Kingston, Hipolto
Lazaro, Giovanni Martinelli and Gor-
dano Paltrinieri.
Barytones- Messrs. Pasquale Amato