Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-29
GERMAN COMPANY
OPENS TOUR HERE
"The Flying Dutchman" Per-
Torrance to Inaugurate Sec
0nd American Season.

washington seems destined, at last
to enter the ranks OF q festival city
with the advent next. January Of the
German Grand Opera Co. that has
chosen to inaugurate its second Ameri-
can tour In the National Capital. When
the curtain rises on Wagner's vivid hero
of the sea, THE Flying Dutchman,' u
on the evening of Monday, January g.
Managing Director 8. Hurok, for the
German Grand Opera Co., promises
brilliant voices from the foremost opera
houses OF Berlin and Vienna and the
illusion of stage pictures and costumes
to equal memories Of festival days In
Europe.
Tradition is the word that follows
thoughts of Wagner and of Mozart
and in assembling his artists while in
Europe last Summer Mr.. Hurok bore
in mind that only artists who wore the
mantle of tradition beautifully should
bring these masterpieces to America
Last season the press was increasingly
enthusiastic over the performances of
the German Grand Opera Co.
When T. Arthur Smith arranged for
the German opera season for Washing
ton he placed the operas at comforta-
BILE intervals to prevent fatigue from
dulling the pleasure of the many who
would attend the four performances.
The company will divide the week with
Baltimore, with the final matinee going
into a second week, thus giving US four
operas in nine days.
The schedule is as follows: "The
Flying Dutchman," Monday evening
January 6. A choice between Die
Walkure' and die Gotterdemmerung,'
from Wagners Ring des Nibelungen"
to be made by the public-for Wednes.-
I'm
Mozart's delightful opera, will be given
Friday evening, January 10, and the
final opera will be a matinee perform
ance OF Wagner's Tristan and Isolde
Tuesday afternoon, January "a.
The complete roster OF artists Is
Sopranos-Mme. Johanna Gadski, Nine
Juiiette Lippe, Miss Marguerite Bau'
mer. a newcomer from the Staatsoper
Berlin; Miss Merriam Reader, with the
lyric sopranos, Miss Lavinia Darve Of
the Paris, London, Milan operas; Miss
Isolde Won Bernhardt, Miss Edna lahr
and Miss Shella Freyer. Contraltos-
Nine. Sonia Sharnova, Miss Mabel
Ritch, Miss Helena Lanvin and Miss
Maura Canning.
Tenors-Carl Joern, who so delighted
last season; Harbert Leuer. brilliant
tenor of the Vienna opera; the notice
Johannes SemDacn, IOTmeIly VI IilS
Metropolitan Opera; Josef Lengyel, en-.
gagged especially for Mozart; Alexander
Larsen of the Copenhagen Royal Opera
and Rudolf Hille. Baritones-Gotthelo
Otter, new among the baritones, COM
ing with a rare reputation from the
Berlin Staatsoper; Richard Gross anc
Franz Egenieff. BasSes-Karl Braun
Bennett Challis and Hans Hey.
In all, the company numbers more
than $50 artists, with an orchestra o.
54 players Ernest Knoch again will
conduct, as will Ernst Mehlich, former.
~ conductor of Breslau and other Ger
man opera houses and at present gen
eral musical director of the Baden Baden
Symphony Orchestra, and Hans Blech'
schmidt, formerly conductor of thu
Hamburg Opera and other leading Ger.
man opera houses.
The engagement of Kurt Albrecht a!
stage director is of great Importance
for he was for years stage manager
of the former Royal Opera in Berlin
and America knows him as the mar
who first staged Max Reinhardt's 9TH,
Miracle" in this country.