Show OPERA SEASON IN INNE NE NEW YORK OPENS Horse Show and Music Inaugurate Inaugurate Inaugurate In In- Gotham's Social Social Social So So- cial Activities By Associated Press NEW YORK Nov 18 New New Yorks York's musical and social seasons had brilliant bril bril- brilliant inaugurals Monday night with the opening of ot the tho Metropolitan opera i house and the Horse show twin show twin i events that for years have marked the advent of the winters winter's activities of ot the I four hundred and the followers of art The Metropolitan offering was I Puccini's Tosca with Geraldine Farrar Farrar Farrar Far- Far in the title role Caruso fresh from triumphs scored In opera staged in a Mexico City bull ring shared with Miss Farrar in the honors and ap ap- ap PRICES RAISED High cost of living also played a role With the orchestra chairs raised in price to 7 a golden stream was poured into the box office coffers cotters by byone byone byone one of the largest thron throngs s that ever filled the Metropolitan Subscriptions for the opera season have reached a record breaking total of Seats for last nights night's performance could not be had at any price though 50 was said to have been offered for fora a pair of ot orchestra chairs before the curtain rose The Puccini work was performed with the same creditable skill and artistry that has marked marled this offering In other years Farrar as Tosca Ca Ca- ruso ruse as the painter Mario Marlo and Antonio Scotti Scott as received many curtain curtain curtain cur cur- tain calls RENDITION THRILLS Arias that thrilled the audience were Farrar's rendition in the second act of D' D DArte Arte and Carusos Caruso's singing of ot Le Stelle Stello in the finale Caruso has made appearances in I In Tosca in recent years but critics agreed that he never sang the role of ot the unfortunate painter better Robert was at the conductors conductor's desk Giulio Gatti Casazza In his twelfth year as managing director believes the Metropolitan opera season now how begInning beginning beginning begin begIn- ning will eclipse In artistic production and financial return that of any previous previous previous pre pre- season in the history of ot opera in inthis inthis this city I |