Salt Lake Telegram | 1929-09-29 | Page 33 | Opera Hopes High

f OPERA r ERAH HOPES HIGH H I q tJ I. I American Opera to ProVide Ei I L v Pioneer tin in the tIe American ri homemade home opera movement i ic Kendall K K M Muisey Mussey a above boY manager manager of the tb Little Theatre Opera company of Brooklyn N. N N.- N. Y That's Siamese kitten bro brought back from Europe on shoulder houlde Pioneer Opera Movement ment Looks to fo F Furnishing E Europe rope and sand America With it Singers Singers' Si gers' gers By BT j JULIA BLANSHARD ARD BROOKLYN N. N Y Sept 2 28 NEA Ain NEA American rIcan women have ho tim best singing Voices oC of any women wo men pica in the world There is n no no reason rca rea son AThy Wll instead in teDd o of our r l g European grand brand opera stars Amert Amer Amer- t not furnish Europe with r operas This is only tKo one Ui lag Ins ng convictions con about American opera pera 1 k t to tho thet United States b by Kendall K Mussey manager manager manger man man- ager ger of ot Americas America's pioneer little tittle opera pera tho the Little Thc Theatre tie Opera Olera comp company n Mr Mussey spent all summer surveying the thc European opera field In Dresden ho he heard Elsie ElLe Wl b a z Pacific coast girl who who made her debut in his Brooklyn Bro company coni- coni coma com pany make her European debut in tho tho s Magic Flute lute This engaging American AJ young woman o will have five leading roles with the the Dresden this winter opera J era company WAS ACTIVE IN E EUROPE ROPE OPE In Berlin Berlin- Mr M Muss Mussey ss y arranged lor or two new c condensed tl ons ns' ns made mado for The Grand Duchess and nd Fra two t operas his his' company wany will here lIe He also secured secured the tHe Hie English yes yes' cr sl aba loh n of f The Th Magic At The ilic Hague ague ho he engaged ns sed Karol arid Loki Bruchman two young artists from froni the jc Royal theatre to to- design the thc and costumes for Cor or the Grand Du Duchess hess and in lit Paris laris h ho hol lo looked oke kc l lover over ver the costume designs for Fra Frn Dl voJo hl h x rf r rD D DenVer Den artist Elizabeth 1 and her colleague Mlle MIle de have finished d. d H Here r t. too o he engaged Vail Vasill Va Va- silt sill il Ita notable stage stage- director director tor lor for th the coming year Tio Tho winter plans oC or the time Little theatre opera company compan as sketched i t i b y Mr Mussey promise cv even n greater opportunities than heretofore for young oung American n singers wh who need needa a i chance chanec to make good at It home rather ather than be forced to make their debuts debuts In Europe before thc they can canet get et into into- opera here c. There 13 is no reason wh why there thero hould not bo be many other Elsie Elie graduating Ung from AmerI American an opera Into title roles abroad Mr Mussey asserted But If Ie we we want vant young American singers to hao avo a chance chanco at operatic enco in their own country countr there must lust be more little theatre opera companies I dream of at t hundreds of them one in each town lown of ot andover and Germany had bind little opera companies before the w war r and now even even in her impoverished ed condition she b towns that h have ve them tipi 1 I belleVe belleV Amerl Americans ans love bove loveo o good d music and if JC prIces Were vere lo loW y and and the tho words in English would go moi 1 often f r Incidentally In Inthe tb Ithe two years e rs' rs th the Little theatre opera company compan h h s existed it has given one tort ona unknown unknown un un- known singers a a. chance at atan an n oper pcr- Of thes vom n are already singing in Europe Europ Mr Mussey M ss y brought ba hack back k with I him glowing ln accounts o of toe the magnificent magnificent mag mag- Stage mechanism th the continent continent continent con con- I. I I 14 devising Germany German has one ond stage for toi Instance that th t has has' eight different e hs The J possibilities of ot unique stage staG effects is unlimited Another stage stase has bas feet ct of ot footlights B BRINGS INGS SIAMESE KITTENS Along with these stimulating ng observations observations ob ob- ob- ob Mr Mussey lussey brought back bock something else that is new arid Interesting It is a ia a little Si Siamese SI- SI a amese aniese l se kitten the youngest of ot Its kind to enter America just barely basely six bc weeks old the day it Jass pass pass-id d the Statue of or Liberty Little Is Is' esp especially Important t for r he lie Is S' S thy the grandson of ot the favorite cat cathi m hi model 0 the famous Parisian ani ani- ani mal miti sculptor G George orge Hilbert nUbert RI nl kUI kikI Is pale beige In color with tho the bluest c eyes es es In the tho world set of oft off to perfection in his his' pointed coal black nose and cars a black streak clear across across down his back back and nd a little HUla black bInd t tall ll that has two kinks In it it a sure re sign o of of regal blood in Slam Siamese e cats cats- ats' ats i American women h have a better chance t today today- day t get Into Into op opera r on the continent tha than 1 ever eyer before stated d his his' beU belief r. r Formerly For Jor merly mery there was a practice In some sonic Impoverished companies of ot engaging lug big rich ii-Ich American women on eJ to sing had or not provided provided provided pro pro- vided they paid vaid ald for tho the privilege This Is 15 discontinued discontinued- I 1 am nm glad to tos s say y The only onty wa way American girls sing on the continent today Is through their own ability Since there are ara fewer ewer rich families In Europ Europe Eu Eu- rope ropo today who can n afford to edu- edu educate edu edu- cate cale their theIL daughters daughters' rs for the opera American girls have a n larger Jarger opportunity than han ever er before