Show PERA FERA SEASON OPENS AT KINGSBURY HALL HALLI I BEGINNING MAY 8 Salt Lake LaIe City will have us It first opera season eason for many years when the notable San Carlo Grand O Opera ra company arrives at Kingsbury hail tto to open a fl five day day on 1 May 8 Capacity audiences i greeted this famous f lion In hi the large of San Francisco and La Los Aage about 20 20 people attended their perform perform- s last week in Portland and In l Seattle during the pr prent ent week this this' f has continued I During the LIve days that the San Carlo Culo company the Kingsbury Kings Kings- bury hall hail auditorium there is to be bea fa a change of opera at each perform ance with many singers ot of fame heard In the different operas Among ithem them will be such sopranos as Blanca r Saroya called an aristocrat among I. I singing actresses who will be heard In the role ot of Leonora In Il Trova tore In which she he has been acclaimed acclaimed ac ac- claimed Aida lyric so Drano recently from the Metropolitan Opera Oper company where she filled a year five contract Her sensational high notes noles and lb Io rid ability In coloratura roles amazed New Yorkers last fall when Virginia La flea Rea stepped on the operatic stage for the first time Miss La Rca Rea who comes front from the northwest shows promise of ranking among thc most gifted ot of coloraturas Dreda Aver Aves leading soprano meno of the corn com pony is another Metropolitan singer and Is generally conceded to be the foremost singing actress of the day in the part o Carmen Bernice Schalk cr ci for several years one of the reliable reliable re re- liable and Indispensable members of the San Carlo company Is also a mezzo Three of the best tenors of the thc opera stage have given distinction to the performances of the company this hason Dimitri Onofre a Rumanian has bas sung rung In many opera houses abroad as well as i this country and is 3 one of the famed singers ingers of the Lohen Lohen- gnu grin role a part he has sung with Maria and other stars lie He shares tho lyric tenor roles with Sid ney Rayner leading tenor of the Paris Opera to which he returns re- re turns in May to continue the contract f that took him from New Orleans to toI I Parl three years neo ago For the tho draI dra dra- t I tenor roles Aroldo Lindl Lindi has few equals Three splendid baritones to be heard beard in the local engagement are Mostyn Thomas Welsh singer and a aV ar V r vivid IVd persona personality my Stefan Kozak Kozakevich vich young oung Russian and Mario Valle a polished and satIsfactory artist Harold Har Har- I old Kravitt wh who has had three years years' i 1 experIence in German opera houses I I shares basso roles with Natale Cervi t dean of the San Carlo sin singers ers The orchestra tra is made up of some somei i I of of the thc best players in New York who specialize la in operatic and nd s symphonic t performances many ot of the musicians being solo performers A ballet of f exceptional artistry is carried with L Lydia ia and Lucian as ac premiers One of the foremost operatic conductors Carlo is musical director and the stage is t under the direction of Luigi of the Chicago Grand Opera compa company y |