The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-12
La Juipe' With
Caruso to Open
Opera Season
Mr.. Gatti-Casazza Announces
Tristan and Isolde Re-
vival in English.

Giulio Gatti-Casazza. general manager
Of the Metropolitan. yesterday an
nounced his definite plans for the opera
premier November Is and the early
weeks of the season. told of recent ex-
periences abroad and talked on the po-
Htical and economic situation in Italy.
He also let 1t be known that Andreas de
Seguroia's mcnocle will be missed this
winter as picturesque Metropolita an
feature as the popular operate come
dian has resigned and will devote him
self to the duties of general manager Of
famous casino in Havana. 1t was
LEANED that Mr.. de Segurola took up
his duties at the Cuban capital last
spring and had the opportunity of well
coming Enrico Caruso at the casino s
front door while the great tenor was fill
ing his engagement in the Havana Orera
House
As to operate plans the general man
ager said:
we viii open with La J;lve' with
Messrs. Caruso and Harold. Miss Rosa
Ponselle and Miss Evelyn Scotney. Mr.
Bodanzky will conduct During the first
three weeks we will have two REVEALS
and q novelty. One of the revivals will
be Ecito's 'Mefistofele. in which Benja-
mno Gigli, new tenor. will make his de-
but as the Faust. Nine. Aida will be the
Marguerite and Nine. Florence Easton
Elena
Tristan and Isolde will be the
other revival with Nine. AIatzenauer.
Nine. Gordon and Messrs. Sembach and
Whitehill in the cast. Mr.. Bodanzky
will conduct and we will use the old
English translation The novelty Is to be,
n mimic symphonic comedy by Pick
Mangingalli. called II Carillion Magico
or The Magic Bell 1t is In three scenes
and. taking about forty minutes to pro-
duce, will be part of double bill Miss
Rosina CALI Will have the leading dane
ing part
Mr.. Gatti brought good news regard
Ing Nine. Lucrezia Bori. who will be
here about mdseason after an absence
of several years. He heard her sing in
Monte Carlo in The Love of Three
Kings" Don Giovanni" "Boheme" and
in Massenet's "Manon." And" he said
"she was in excellent voice" Miss Cora
Chase. a new American coloratura So
prano who has been singing with sue
cess abroad for some time. will make
her debut in December.
On the economic crisis in ITALY Mr.
~7atti said:
ITALY is passing through social and
economic CRISIS like all the other coua-
tries of Eu-ope-a crisis more tnan
natural, the consequence of the past
war, which was the greatest upheaval
In the history of cur planet. But ii is
false and unjust to say that Italy is IN
q worse condition thar other European
countries. England for example. mas an
internal crisis caused by the Irish ques-
ton so grave that IL there were one
similar in Italy just now 1t would be
eaid that Italy would be wiped off the
face of the earth.
THE Idea of comparing Russian con-
ditions with Italian Is ridiculous If |
there is one country refractory to the
Bolshevist and Communistic experiment
that country is Italy, whose people.
which has behind It the experience OF
5000 years at least, has as it's principal,
irreducible, characteristic and constitu-
tional virtue good common sense
that Is to say, sense that enables 1t
Justly to discriminate between things
that are possible and things that are
impossible.
Besides this the greater part of the
leaders of the Italian Socialist party are
men of positive practical and judcious
mentality.
"The present Government of Italy, |
which has as its exponent Giovanni
Giolitti, is what 1t should be-not
government of one class, but govern
all classes II the industrial metallur-
gical employing class had at once &C
cepted the counsels given by Mr.. Giolitti |
not to intrench behind an Enthusiastically |
uncompromising attitude. that class
would have profited greatly and many in |
resulting from strikes would |
have been avoided.
True II is that there still are persons |
who think that the present conflicts be-
tween capital and labor can be settled |
through the old system of martial law
and through the Intervention OF police
and gendarmes. but these persons were
born blind.
II have no hesitation in risking a
prophecy which / am convinced time will
prove Is well founded Italy, which has
TO its credit the fact that it has given
two civilizations to Europe, one with the
Roman law and the other with the Re-
will be the first nation which
will come out of the present crisis hay-
ing the honor OF having triumphed with
out the aid of any one. rather, I may
say. in spite of the opposition of almost
all her sister European nations"
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