New-York tribune., 1920-10-12
Metropolitan
Opens Nov. Is
With LA .Juive'
Catti Casazza Plans Three
Novelties for the First
Weeks of the Season:
Bodanzky Will Conduct
Caruso in Opening Cast
Impresario, Returned From
Europe, Defends Italy
in Her Economic Crisis

III Her ECONOMIC Nr1S1S
Giulio Gatti- -Casazga, general manager
Of the Metropolitan Opera House, an.
nounced yesterday that the opera fol
November 10, the opening night OF the
season, will be Halevy's La Juive'
Enrico Caruso, Orville Harold, Leon
Rothier, Rosa Ponselle and Evelyn Scot
ney will appear in the cast. Mr.. Bo-
danzky will be the conductor.
According to his custom Mr.. Gatti
who has just returned from abroad
spent the summer making plans for the
operate season of year from now.
Arrangements for the season of 1920-'21
were completed before his departure
from New York last spring
For the first three weeks of the
season, beginning the middle of next
month, | have in preparation three
novelties" he said. "The first Of these
is revival of Boito's 'Mcfistofele' in
which a new tenor, Benjamino Gigli,
from the Scala of Milan and the Monte
Carlo Opera, will make his debut. Nine.
Frances Aida will appear as Marguerite,
and Miss Florence Easton as Helena.
Jose Mardones will be the Mcfistofele.
There will be new scenery by the Rus
sian artist, Boris Anisfeld.
"The second novelty will be the pre-
scntation of Tristan and Isolde" in
English. The II. and T. Corder edition
revised by Sigmun Spaeth and Cecile
Cowdray will be used. Johannes Sem
bach, Nine. Margaret Matzenauer and
Miss Jeanne Gordon will be in the
cast. Mr.. Bodanzky will conduct
Ballet Is Third Novelty
"The third novelty will be ballet,
II Carlton Magico,' by Milanese COM
poser, Pick Mangiagall, based on old
italian masques. The ballet is in three
scenes and will occupy about forty
minutes in performance. Miss Rosina
Cali, who is experimenting the pro
duction, will appear in the principal
role
Oates for these three productions
will be announced later but the per
formances will occur some time during
the first three weeks of the season"
Other operas to be given this season,
which were included in a prospectus
issued last spring are Verdi's "Don
Carlos" Giordano's "Andre Chcnicr," j"
Charpentier's Louise" and "The
Polish jew" by Karl Weiss.
Mr.. Gatti said that Miss Lucrezia
Bori. who will return to the Metropoli-
tan forces early in January, has com
pletely recovered her health and has
been singing with much success in
"LAmorc del Tre Re" Don Giovanni"
ola Boheme' and "Manon" at Monte
Carlo. Miss Cora Chase, a coloratura
soprano from Boston, who has sung in
Italian opera houses, will join the
company in the middle Of December.
Andres de Segurola, the Spanish
bass, who for many years has been a
familiar figure on the stage Of the
Metropolitan, has resigned and given
up his operate career to become di-
rector OF the Casino at Havana, Cuba.
Silent On Covent Garden
Asked about the rumor of season
at Covent Garden by the Metropolitan
Opera Company, Mr.. Gatti replied,
with shrug 81 have nothing to say.
1t is all in the air"
European Opera Prices Advance
Comparing the price of opera tickets
here and abroad, the impresario said
that European prices had advanced in
by far the greatest proportion.
CAR opera ticket can be bought here
for virtually the same price as before
the war;" he said. ain my home, Fer
rara, the price of opera tickets has
risen from 6 to 40 lire apiece. In
France the price for tickets is at least
three times what was asked before
the war;
Mr.. Gatti had almost as much to
say about the political situation in
Italy as about operate affairs.
"Italy is passing through social
ana economic crisis like all the coun-
tries of Europe-a crisis more than
natural, the consequence of the war;
he said But it is absolutely false and
unjust to say that Italy is in worse
condition than the other countries Of
Europe.
England, for example, has an in
te1nal crisis caused by the Irish qucs-
ton so grave that if there were one
similar in Italy just now it would be
said that Italy would be wiped off the
, face OF the earth.
"The idea of comparing Russian coni
ditons with Italian conditions is simply
ridiculous. If there is one country alb
solutely refractory to the Bolshevist
and communistic experiment that
country indeed is Italy, whose people
which has behind it the experience Of
5000 years at least, has as its principal
irreducible characteristic and constitu-
tional virtue good common sense.
that ls to say. a sense that enables it
justly to discriminate between things
that possible and things that are
impossible
Socialists Not Revolutionary
Besides this, the greater part of the
leaders of the Italian Socialist party
Is composed Of men of positice, pract-
cal, judicious mentality who believe in
the evolutionary process rather than
the revolutionary.
"You have proof Of this in two facts:
C) The moderation of conduct on the
part OF these leaders in the recent
strike Of the employees in the metal |
lurgical manufactures and CD the ex-
pllcit and courageous Judgment shown
by these leaders in regard to the actual
conditions in' Russia "A judgment /
which is decided condemnation of |
the Bolshevik system.
'As to the present government OF /
Italy, which has rs its exponent the
Honorable Giovanni Giolitti, it is what
it should be-that is, not government
of one class, but government which
represents the interests of all classes.
Ii the industrial metallurgical employ
ing class had at once accepted the coun-
sells given by Mr.. Gioltti, not to en-
trench themselves behind an unjustii-
ably uncompromising attitude, that
class would have prolited greatly and
many inconveniences resulting from
strikes would have been avoided.
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