Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-12-22
NEW YORK OPERA
ATTRACTS HUGE
CROWDS NIGHTLY
Boxes, Stalls and Chairs,
From Orchestra Pit to
"Peanut Gallery" Are
Always at a Premium.
tBy The Associated Press.)

New York, Dec. 81 (by the AS
ISOLATED Press. Its light UNI
dimmed by the passing of its great
est luminary of recent years En-
rico Caruso--the Metropolitan OPP
era has reached the height Of what
its social and professional spon-
sors acclaim as the most success
full season since the worlds eyes
were focused on New York as the
hub of the operate universe.
Not, officials of the opera said
today, that a great gap has not
been left in the ranks of the ar
lists who have made it so famous.
Caruso's place, they declared, can
not be filled in a few months, or
even in a few years. but his death
has served to defect the interest
of opera goers from the brilliancy
of the individual singer and to wild
en- it to embrace the opera itself
and the great though less known
stars. who nightly are drawing
multitudes to the historic Broad
way auditorium.
Changes Have Taken Place.
Great changes have taken
place in the opera as social insti-
tuition, they declare. The socia
side of the gatherings there season
by season, has again taken on the
aspect it wore a generation ago.
Once more it is the brilliant show
place it was In the SOS and COS.
Nightly, regardless of the name of
the tenor or the soprano who is to
sing, boxes, stalls. chairs, from
orchestra pit to peanut gallery
are at a premium, and every foot |
of standing room in the shadowy |
horseshoe about the walls is solid |
with the mass of music lovers who !
would rather stand three and |
half hours than miss the perform
ance.
In a widespread reaction from
the fashions of years before and
during the war, the gentleman
opera goer appears in evening
dress, whether he sits in a box or
any other part of the house below
the gallery And many who stand
through the succession of acts pa
rade the Hobbies and doff the shin
lest of silk hats to acquaintances {
or when they go to exchange visits
among the boxes filled with rich l
~ -SoNlGu anu JGWtlltu WUHlbH.
Apace with the changing custom {
In dress and the etiquette of the I
entracte, the public has mastered
It's post bellum aversion for Ger {
man opera, manifested in 1919 by {
threats of violence that would en- i
sue on their presentation |
Twice this season the stately
measures Of Wagnerlan opera {
have resounded in tile ears of {
audiences that have taxed the ca
pacity of the house, and "Die Tote a
stadt," new to American devotees t
of the art, was the vehicle upon
which Nine. Marie Jeritza, a Wen
lese, took cosmopolitan audience
by storm at her debut.
A few nights later the same i'm
posing daughter of the former
enemy country tore and shook into
her coronet of shin
ing golden hair through the pas
sionate scenes of ia Tosca'--a (
role long regarded as the exclu- '
i've property of the American idol. a
Geraldine Farrar-while an Amer {
can audience dissolved into tears &
Ind interrupted the scene with an G
,utburst OF applause and "bravos" r
luch as seldom mars the serenity 4
II New York's blase first nighters. /
Successor of Caruso. Q
AS to the much herslded success
Tor of Caruso-the operate macs T
ros declare they are seeking none /,
md hope to find none. After tour Il
ng Europe most of last summer, ;
General Manager Giulio Gatti-Ca- g
'azza returned with many new 4
fingers added to his company and 4
everal new operas for his roper =
ORE. But he announced that while :,
place in the hearts Of "