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Show APPLAUSE OF KAISER FOR A HEW OPERA BERLIN, Dec. M. The stags of the royal opera-house was piled with wreaths of laurel as' Ruggerio Leoncavallo was recalled for the last time last night after the production of "Dex Roland von Berlin." Ber-lin." Emperor William stood up In his box applauding, and the brilliant audience cried "Bravo!" Critics who were from Paris, Rome, Vienna, London, St. Petersburg Peters-burg and all parts of Germany think Leoncavallo has equaled his best work. The music, in the opinion of several foreign critics, is a skillful blending ot the martial and the lyrical. The opera is full of songs that will be sung on the concert stage around the world within two or three months, especially the "SoDg of Longing," sung by Frauleln Destinn as the burgomaster's daughter, and the ' Love Duet," sung by Frauleln Destinn and Herr Hoffman, who has the principal princi-pal Zero's role. Thb last act, where Emperor William's ancestor, the Margrave Frederick, breaks in the city gates of Berlin and overthrows the statue of Roland, the emblem of municipal Independence, the stage fills up with steel-clad horsemen, making a picture that, oddly enough, was not the Emperor's idea, but Leoncavallo's, who Insisted upon a grand tragic finale. At the close of tho performsnce. Emperor Empe-ror William received Slgnor Leoncavallo and his wife in the' royal box and conferred con-ferred upon the composer the crown order, or-der, second class. |