Show I OPPORTUNITIES FOR AMERICAN Ar SINGERS GROW Sl to aad d Opera E l c Chicago i Basso Says i Th The new ne year yar l Is bringing still further opportunity to American singers to reach rP-ach r aich the heIghts of art Herbert Gould Chicago opera and oratorio singer said here today In an Interview Mr Gould a young oung basso 19 1 a soloist today In fifth annual performance of The Me- Me Mes Ies- Ies siah The only thing the American lies has lucked lacked Is la experience Mr Gould said But Dut now op opportunity op- op p to acquire a grand Brand opEra experience l Is 19 thrown open to the Americans MORE MOnE GRAND OPERA There Ther Is an Increasing demand for grand crand opera In America lea as Is evidenced by the th Increase In the number of clUes cities where a r season seaon of opera Is b an annual event ent Th This III is 1 t where here the th A American young man or r young woman willEtt will w get the grand rand opera experience formerly enjoyed enjo almost exclusively ely eli shEI by the foreigner who ob obtained oh- oh obtained hIs isis his training In the th land l where grand opera is the regular thing The Tue impression that once pro pro- pre prevailed railed a to the effect that Europeans better singers than luau Amer Anier- AmerIcans Americans leans has iii be ben beit 11 wiped out as ri rl ridiculous Americans can do any any- anythIng thins any thIng as good sooil or better and It IS only Ignorance that fosters the belief that Europe can produce singers I than the United States We Ve 1 have the voices s and the training and nd now no we wo are ar get get- getting line let t r ting g the experience SINGER KEPT EIT BUSY DUSY Mr Gould recited hi his own in in- in increasing In creasing en encasements to emphasize size his Ills point Ho lo has been called to Utah Ulah twice to sing sin In Faust and Carmen Ho lie Is studying seV- seV seVeral sev several ev- ev everal eral roles role for tOT fora a IL season s ason or of o grand opera soon In Cincinnati Mr Gould say says these hese many ninny engage encase encasement engagements ment ments for tor and other American singers rapidly ar are pro pro pro- vl riding the In gran grand 1 opera which Mill provide for en n en- en entrance entrance trance Into tho the leading opera companies He lie also alo says the the- prejudice against opera In English is III go- go going goIng ing A few days ago aco he Ie e saId salol Edith Mason of it the Chicago Civic Opera company sang sane Lart Lut Rose Rosc of Summer in n Italian She Sho was taken to task tuk by the tir critics so ao sharply that In her next float perform perform- performance performance ance anco she elto went back to the Ene Eng Eng- h op 00 |