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Show 'O MUSIC LOVERS TO HEAR . "MADAM BUTTERFLY" AGAIN. Salt Lake Music lovers are eagerly eager-ly looking forward to the coming rc-'urn rc-'urn engagement of "Madam Butterfly," Butter-fly," Mr. Henry W. Savage's greatest great-est operatic production which proved such a spectacular success on the occasion oc-casion of its visit to this city last season. Manager Pyper of the Salt Lake theatre has announced that the Puccini opera will be here for two performances on Saturday, February IS, this being the only city to get" the company on its overland trip from Oakland to Denver. Music lovers arc surely indebted to Mr. Savage for the revival of this modern operatic work. When it was introduced in this country last season sea-son Mr. Savage had fully intended to abandon the opera at the end of its first tour, but its success of last year was so phenominal and the requests . for return engagements so many, that he decided to send the production produc-tion on a second tour of the continent. contin-ent. The new English Grand Opera Company began with a most successful success-ful return engagement in New York, followed by a tour of the East, since it has visited all the first cities of the South where the flowery opera, as might be supposed, proved even a greater success than in the North. While it has not been determined what artists arc to be heard here, it is promised that local lovers of grand opera will hear the favorites including Phoebe Strakosch, the gifted gift-ed niece of Patti and Rena Vivienne the beautiful American girl who cap-'tured cap-'tured the town last year as wellas r two.-of -thenew (enors' whtf have attracted at-tracted attention. '" r ' ""' I |
