Evening star., 1937-11-13
Opera Guild
In Salzburg
Offering
Performance Here
Is From Great
Repertoire.

DIRECT from its triumphant week
of operatic repertoire at the
Forty-fourth Street Theater in New
York comes the celebrated SalZburg
(Austria) Opera Guild for single
performance in Washington at Con-
stitution Hall Tuesday evening of
Mozart's celebrated two-act opera,
"Cosi Fan Tutte," with cast and or
chestra numbering IS. The perform
ance will be given under the aus
pices of Dorothy Hodgkin Dorsey as
one of the attractions of Mrs. Dorsey's
series of Tuesday evening music events
at Constitution Hall this season.
The Capital will see the same dis
tinguished company and repertoire
which made musical history at the
Salzburg Festival in 1886 and which
repeated its success again last sum-
mer. This was followed by outstand-
ing performances at Vienna, and
during the last week New York has
seen the entire Salzburg repertoire as
the company began its first American
tour Of the United States.
"Cosi Fan Tutte," which can be
freely translated into "All Women Are
Alike" was the first opera the Salz-
burg Guild prepared for their rep
ertoire under the direction of Paul
Csonka. Composed in 1889 for En-
peror Joseph of Austria, "Cosi Fan
lutte" is regarded as exemplifying
along with The Marriage of Figaro
and Don Giovanni" perfect 18th
century opera buffo The story, "as
lively as a Broadway farce" is said
to have been written by Lorenzo di
Ponte from a basic idea furnished by
the Emperor himself.
The story of "Cosi Fan Tutte" in
wolves cynical old bachelor, Don
Alfonso, who has made a wager with
two young Neapolitan officers, Fer
rando and Guglielmo that the fidelity
of their respective finances. Fiordiligi
and Dorabella, is of uncertain quality.
To provide the necessary test. the two
officers announce that they have been
called away from Naples on duty, but
the same afternoon they return dis
guised as Oriental noblemen. The
wouldbe strangers lay siege to the
girls and repeatedly make violent love
to them. After series of specially
ardent advances, the girls finally sue
cumb and agree to wed their new
suitors. The wedding contracts are
signed and sealed, when suddenly
drums are heard and Don Alfonso an
nounces the return Of the soldiers
The Orientals vanish and reappear in
their proper persons to reproach Their
sweethearts for their f1ckleness. The
mystery is made clear to the two girls
and Don Alfonso, pocketing the wager
patches up the quarrel between the
girls and their real sweethearts.
The cast includes John Heinz, dra-
matte tenor, who has appeared as guest
artist with the San Francisco SYM
phony Orchestra and the Chicago
Opera, as well as singing in Milan,
Dussendorf and Berlin; Franco Perulli,
lyric tenor and protege of Tito Schipa;
Laszlo Csabay, Hungarian tenor -buffo;
Leo Weith, Viennese baritone: Rolf
Telasko, baritone of the Vienna
Staatsoper; Deszo Ernster, first basso
cantando; Marex Liven, Lettish bass
baritone; Alfred Hollander, bass
buffo; Ljubomir Pantscheff, basso;
Hertha Glatz, first contralto; Aruroa
Dolci, soprano; Aune Anti, coloratura
soprano, and many others. The Or
chestra is under the baton of Albert
Erede, the guilds brilliant 29-year-old
musical director.
Seats for the Tuesday evening per-
formance of "Cosi Fan lutte" may be
obtained at Mrs. Dorsey's concert bu-
reau, in Droop's, 1900 G street NV,
and at Constitution Hall on the eve-
ming of the Opera.