Show DRAMATIC AND LYRIC Emma Juch and Her Salt Lake Repertoire THE WATER QUEEN WINKS OUT Stephens on theEConcert The Apollol Club Last MhtHome Club Plans Wonderland Notes Emma Juch closes her Butte engagement tomorrow night plays in Ogden Tuesday and opens here in Tannhauser Wednesday Wednes-day The sale opens tomorrow and will without doubt be attended with more interest in-terest than has been about the box office since the fair Emma sang hero before Aside from her popularity and the great strength of her support a special interest attachesto the engagement in that it will be Salt Lakes very first taste of the much vaunted wildly praised terribly execrated and universally debated Wagner school of opera The Juch company is made up of fine solo choral and orchestral forces and is splendidly equipped with scenery costumes cos-tumes properties armors and stage trappings trap-pings Emma Juch the prima donna whom Director Locke has delegated to head this organization has proven herself possessed pos-sessed of wonderful versatility The repertoire for the engagement is admirably arranged Vagners melodious Tann hauser will be given at the initial performances per-formances Gounods Faust is announced for Thursday evening Meyerbeers Les Huguenots on Friday evening Bizets beautiful Carmen Saturday matinee mati-nee and Wagners Flying Dutchman is announced for the closing performance Miss Juch will only be seen in the roles of Elizabeth in Faunhauser Valentine in The Huguenots and Senta in The Flying Fly-ing Dutchman She possesses to a singular singu-lar degree the capacity of infusing at will into the character she impersonates the sentiment of romances which is of the utmost ut-most value in realizing Wagners and Meyerbeers heroines In the poetry and delicacy of her conception of Elizabeth and the charm of its execution her impersonations im-personations are said to approach the ideal Her rendition of Valentine has gained for her universal praise Her exquisite ex-quisite rendition of Senta has made her world famous The various other roles will be intrusted to such famous singers as Payne Clark the English tenor Otto Rathjens the noted German baritone Franz Vetta the American basso Georgians Georg-ians Ton Januschowsky the brilliant soprano so-prano Louise Muslinger the wellknown contralto and E N Knight the basso buffo This splendid body of singers will have the assistance ot an orchestra of thirty and a chorus of sixty voices all being be-ing under the direction of Add Neuendorf the wellknown New York leader The misen scenes of each opera will be gorgeously gor-geously illustrated with a wealth of scenery costumes armors properties calcium cal-cium and electric effects under the direction direc-tion of Mr William Parry Tannhauser the opera selected for the opening is a grand composition It is rich In orchestration orchestra-tion and the instrumentation heightens the effect of the singing and the dramatic situations It is in Waeners earliest style and is wholly within the comprehension and enjoyment of people who do not claim to be familiar with his latest and doubtless grander works Tannhauser tells the story of a mountain loriel whose mission was to lure trusting knights to her mountain cave and there destroy them Tannhauser wins her love and after a years devotion longs for earthly joys and love He seeks an Elizabeth beloved of yore but in a song contest between the minstrels so shocks the lady and the assembly that he is banished ban-ished from the Landgraves court He joins a band of pilgrims going to Rome there to repent The priest refuses absolution ab-solution for to have shared the joys of Venus is unpardonable As this barren staff I noia neer will put lortn nower or leaf thus shalt thou never more behold salvation or thy sins relief Tannhauser returns weary broken and ragged seeks to rejoin the goddess but is hailed with the news that the priests barren staff has sprouted signifying forgiveness He turns to seek Elizabeth but is met by her funeral train This in brief is the story around which Wagner has clustered some of the gems of his genius The great chorus Hail Bright Abode on which the choral is now at work occurs in this opera The new Apollo club is doing good work and Mr Krouse says they will soon have in shape The Bedouin Love Song I Love My Love Breezes of the Night ana The North Wind The officers and members are as follows President Don Carlos Young Vicepresident Charles Rood Secretary H W Shearman Treasurer Fred Bennett Membership committeeDr J P Wilson Wil-son T E Harper R GorlinskL Musical director H S Krouse Tenors Basses Don Carlos Young G Peabody F J Wilson RGorllnskl F Bennett T E Harper H Bartells G Metcalf I ti Young F W Thompson Charles Rood R Bockholtz Harry Shearman R Jaynes F J Vollmer W Griffiths G Glendennlng W Squires Vf Dunbar Oberndorfer F Taylrr F Sawer L Louisson William Browning F Warden Grant Hampton F Busbinger William Smedley jr L Webber R Haviland H S Krouso J Selipman A Moore Alvin Beesley M McAllister George McIntyre Harry R Browne Dr Chapman 4 Evan Stephens was feeling quite happy over the big concert when Dramatic and Lyric saw him yesterday although he said I j J everything did not go to suit him and he could do much better next time He had not received all the returns from the sales as yet but of all the estimates made on the attendance he thought THEHERALDS figures of 4000 were the nearest correct He said the chorus was making fine progress on the May festival and on Juchs arrival he expected ex-pected to have a talk with her about being the principle star for the occasion Speaking Speak-ing of Juch he said he had heard her in both Tannhauser and the Flying Dutchman Dutch-man and she was simply glorious 4 That very melancholy assemblage of fakirs fa-kirs knownnas Kiralfys Water Queen what a dreadful contrast to the Sea King gave their third and fourth fakes yesterday afternoon and evening to audiences i wore a hunted and desperate aspect There were not enough people in the house to keep the atmosphere warm and the receipts re-ceipts werejust about heavy enough to pay the gas bill if the lights were not turned up too high There were rumors of financial finan-cial distress about the troupe and the presence of Agent Kenworthy of the Atchison Atchi-son Topeka As Santa Fe around the box office lends some color to the reports The best wish we have for this company is that it will not survive to reach San Francisco 4 4 Mr Sims Reeves the ever popular tenor singer now getting dangerously near his seventieth year of age announces not for the first time his absolutely final farewell fare-well for May 11 next when Mme Christine Chris-tine Nilsson comes especially from Madrid to be present at the veteran tenors farewell fare-well concert Sims Reeves it will be remembered made his first appearance on the stage at Newcastle England in December 1839 at which time he was singing baritone parts Not long afterward he made his first appearance in Italian opera at La j Scala Milan in the tenor part of Edgardo in Lucia di Lammermoor His first original character was in Balfes opera of I the Maid of Honor Since that time Mr Reeves has held the rank of first English tenor and has appeared with extraordinary I success at all tho great performances of I oratorios at Exeter hall the provincial musical festivals and at the Crystal palace After leaving the stage in May Mr Reeves will devote himself to teaching singing He already has many pupils Sew York Herald |