Show HANDICAPS OVERCOME BY OPERA COMPANY IN WAGNERS WAGNER'S San Carlo Stars Give Splendid Interpretation tion Impoliteness of Audience Mars Beauty of Opening Overture Handicapped by a piece 19 orchestra and a weak chorus the San Carlo Opera company nevertheless managed to make its presentation of Wagners Wagner's Lohengrin an evening of gre t beauty at Kingsbury naIl Fri Fri- I I 4 I day nIght S Interpretation or of Wagner demands power of voice and orchestra particularly In Lohengrin in which the chorus plays plas so important a part To glean from It all the thc majesty Wagner Wag Wag- ncr ner wrote into it requires the manpower Conductor Carlo had at his command and a full per per- trained chorus The principal roles sung by Bianca Saroya Dimitri Dreda Ayes Aves Harold Kravitt and Stefan Kozakevich Kozake- Kozake vich were all that could be desired SO was the general staging Thus for devotees of Wagner it was a satis performance For Initiates to the German master it was a thrillIng CX The exquisite beauty ot of the open open- ng overture was lost riot not through my any fault ot of the harassed but by the inexcusable conduct of the audience would have bave been perfectly justified it if he had turned and given n a thoroughgoing mand Instead h he led his men courageously courageously cour- cour on through a hum and elat dat Lee of latecomers fumbling for seats In the dark and carryIng on a mur mur- conversation while doing U. U It t was the fIrst black mark against Salt Lake City's opera audiences Some ot of the loss was vas regained in inthe inthe the third act overture one ot of the loveliest things Wagner wrote In it are lre combined thundering 1 power and Lyric lyrie beauty which Wagner was 80 50 adept in combIning Other hIghlights of the were ere the pageantry of oC the second act the well loved bridal chorus which opens the third act lct the golden romantic duet duct between Elsa md and LohengrIn in the same act Lohengrin's Lohen grins grin's narrative revealing his identity in the fourth act and King Henry the Fowlers Fowler's passages in the opening act The opera was sung in its native German with the tion of the therole therole role of Elsa which was sung in En En- gUsh glish Dimitri romantic tenor i was enthralling in those passages written In the lyric veIn and ond he sang the role ot of the Knight of the Holy Grail with a deep understanding of the part vart To him more than any other member of the cast was wa gIven the drama dramn of the story to enact and he carried it off with fine artistry Meeting the exactions of at the role of Df Elsa Eisa the maid whom Lohengrin appears miraculously to save from Saroya Bianca won new trIumphs Although the role does riot flot contain the lyrIc melody of at AIda AIdaIn In which Saroya scored so 80 heavily it does docs demand and brilliance So Sa roya gave ave It that Dreda Ayes Aves on the other hand won Ion eVen greater acclaim for tor her Ortrud the wicked sorceress than she did as Amneris In Aida Therole The Thel role is riot not such a long one in Lohen rin but bu Ayes Aves through her work ir ill the opening of at the second act made madet It t memorable Henry Kravitt's open l ing aria for basso was likewise a high moment of the evening Sentimental as are the majority of Wagners Wagner's works Lohengrin is n a glorified fairy tale The stor story tells of the mysterious shining knight who arrives in a swan drawn boat to champion the lovely Elsa accused of the murder of her young oung brother and deliver her native land of Brabant from Crom Invaders He weds her on the solemn promise she will not nol seek his name or origin Elsas Elsa's faith in him is weakened by ugly suspicIons aroused by the sorceress Ortrud She breaks her pact and Lohengrin revealing revealing re- re he is in the service of oC the Holy Grail is forced to depart Be fore leaving he restores to his true form the brother Godfrey who has been turned into a swan b by Ortrud Realizing as his now drove drawn boat drifts away that she has lost a great love Elsa falls dead and Bcd acci were presented at the Saturday matinee and Verdis Verdi's 11 Trovatore I JJ scheduled to close the season Saturday Satur day night |