| Show I SHARPS and FLATS Puccini announces his hb Intention of ot doing over ner Cyrano rano do Into Inlo nn an pera The theme will fill be siren Iren to the tho trumpet of course UT 11 IA Scala all Theater In Milan lIlan had a 1 deficit nf of last It FM Can the IhlO Italian actually bo be tiring of II 11 Trovatore Lucia and La bula bulat Signor 81 nor linn has been beon bi on invited Jn by h Puccini lo to conduct Hie tho of ot of ot Madam Butterfly tn to Inh h this week werk at Lucca the native place of tho the r Catullo tullo Monde Mondea has hits just finished the tho libretto of ot a R musical mu lUlI comedy In three acts acu fir and An l ha hB has Xavier Leroux with this the Ih task of fitting music to 10 It II The result rosult to be interest interestIng Ing lug a Liebler Co Ca will produce prod nc nest t season fanon a musical version erslon of ot Mrs Ir Vigge It will be a I novelty in that thal It will be he the tho first time n II pro has been be on shabbily costumed There Is I to be no chorus Estelle Wentworth hag has signed a II to lo loyear year Ir contract with Frnnk McKee McRee Her first appearance under r the new man mall Is to be as the tho prima donna In The and the Governor In which Jefferson De Do Angells Angelis Is h to star Alexander Clark will 11 have haxo the Iho role of ot the tho King of n Bohemia In the Do Dc Koen Kven light opera when whim the company compan begins Its reason in III Boston lon the tho 1st h laS of ot October taking the role rolo played by II Raymond namond when the tho opera was waa produced In Chicago last lut June Junt What Is la said Mid to be br one of lit the bert hest comic operas Inco the hn days das of ot Gil Gilbert Gilbert bert and Sullivan his Ms boon been produced 1 In London under the title of ot Amasia The libretto Is by b Frederick Fenn Peron and l tho the music by b P I M 1 Faraday The is laid in Egypt Caruson engagement at al Ostend at nt atthe the iho consists of n singing twice a n week two songs MiniS on In each Illch occasion fur for which he gets 1800 or for tor the tho 1 16 song Fong on 1800 well each Considering the fact tact that he will III draw more than double this sum Indirectly Il the tho Invest mont i is b a rood one For 1 or the musk them theme which Is II to lun tun through tho the of ot the Ihl hasia ha ls will 1111 be bl taken laken from rein The Th M h Julian Edwards has been tn to the tha theore Ih tau ore rt c which will be 1 1 Interpreted by an of IJ J 1 pieces a Il of ot 0 and A quartet qu of solo Olo artists Oct IS 18 has hK been b 11 led as R the IIII date for tor the first fint f an e of ot latest opera M dame Butterfly In IB Inthis this thU th country countr The oily Ctt to In hear It first will be b Washington and the company com ny to sing It that thaI of or Mr Ir Savage who also I 0 has haR the credit of the first American performances of or other two operatic o successes Tosca and IA La 1 Boheme Sousa Soula and his band will 11 give Ie their th lr first New Xe York concert flOn 1908 1706 l 06 Ht lit the hippodrome on Sunday even evening oven evenIng ing Oct 14 U The program pro will of ot offer fer ter The Barber of It Bagdad overture b by Cornelius and two tuo distinct novel novelties novelties ties tiel the Iho Japanese ballet Yedda and anda a 11 humorous paraphrase The Tho T o the tho Green The revenues revenue of ot the Wagner fatally family are arc equal oqual to lo an nil Income of ot a ay afar y year far ar In III this country H lI It Is 19 safe to ay say 18 that Wagner Walmer 1 Is the tho be of ot the tho present Lohengrin la is I performed oftener In fn Europe than Ihan nay other opera and ane Wagners far outnumber those of o any all other matter master HI Ills name namo and fame tame were pro In III more nimo than Ihan one scare onse a 1 pre precious clous cious heritage tb Iii his hll family Nothing succeeds like sensationalism Strauss Salute Salome Is III to 10 be pro produced this season reason even oen In III Italy at the Praia In Milan oman under the he direction of ot The manager of ot the Scala Casazza ua h heard urd the work at Att Cologne t and promptly secured Cured the per performing performIng forming rights He lie thinks the Ihl opera Is not so 10 as It t him hiss been h n described Nineteen rehearsals 1 in three throe weeks sufficed fur for Cologne Frederick Chapin the composer tr of or The fht Storks find and The Forbidden Land lm ho tine secured Jc the dramatic right to III Mark Twains story tor The Prince and the Pauper It Is Mr Intention to produce the piece In mu ferns torm and lint he already h hI has r written many of the Iho numbers number An n eastern lern manager ha hn has accepted the walk and preparations are under way a for the Ihl Initial production at a Broad day da theater Writing Killing about SaInt In UW Hi Hans von on Bulon Bulo said raid he ho Willi most moM as ns nay touched to 10 hear him reproduce the Schuman symphonies nn on the Ih Plano piano with such nuth an nn amount of facility and Rne exactitude tulle tude that he remained dumbfounded In this prodigious memory with his own on which wax was thought KO so much of ot In talking with hint him he continues I 1 saw paw that nothing was wan un unknown unknown known to 10 him and Rn what made him appear still till greater In Ip my mr eyes eu was AI the Iho sincerity of his enthusiasm and his great modesty modest Salome will be produced at the Metropolitan Opera House next season This means that Olive Olle Fremstad will return In the full tull flush fluth nu h of prima donna dom doin Salome Salomo Is I by b Richard Strauss Strains and in its music and Its lis drama Irama Is le au BU audaciously I and startlingly original Miss will play piny pill Salome the tho agree agreeable agreeable fee able and Idyllic da morel who requested th the severance of ot John the Baptists head front from his hili body bod chiefly because she he loved lod him hint Inasmuch aa as Salome KM hM been the universal theme of ot musical discussion dl Mr Ir willingness to risk a Io production Is In all senses com corn Charles tho the French ten len tenor lenor tenor or who has hu been engaged for the Met Metropolitan Metropolitan Iet Opera House next season is h the tho youngest as well M as one of ot th the tho most successful of ot the tenors of the French operatic stage He was as born horn bornat hornat at St Rt the son of ot a II blacksmith bl and end was nas brought up to that trade Ills His voice olce attracted 1 attention and he was sent to Paris farts J to study at tho the Center Conser Conservatoire he was as graduated In 1891 at the age of ot IS 43 3 and engaged for tor forthe forthe the opera He made ids his debut hero thero heroIn heroin In St Samson Samon et ct Delilah Ho Hohas hohas has sung ung only once outside the Opera and this was wan In Brussels where he went to create the part of Prometheus The London Times begins A I notice of ot ofA otI ofa A I new ne work by b the young joung Russian Hun Ian com composer composer composer poser H n with this characterization ton tion of ot the tho composer In general A new symphony and one which neither re represents presents the tho composers disgust with life lite at nt the ago o of ot K fL the philosophy of ot Nietzsche nor moonlight on the Mediterranean deserves a IL care careful ful rul hearing because an untilled sym lIm symphony phony phon Is II rather ral eT a II rare production at present M J was wan aa born In 1574 1874 and studied like most mOlt of the th young roun Russians who ho have made a name for tor themselves at the Moscow Conserva Conservatory O conservatory tory tor under Mr Ir who Is now the director of ot the tho national conserva conservator tor tor In New York where he hp Is I likely to 10 achieve notable results for tor music In n America Thousands of ot American girls girU who are studying music will feel eel encouraged by bythe bythe the marvellous success of vf Miss Geral Geraldine Geraldine Geraldine dine Farar ar the girl from South Paris a village In Maine who la IN the musical t of or Europe She Sho mu must t be wonderful Indeed Ind If It half of ot what the critics say nay M of or her IS U true nd there h is no dissenting voice olee Like Ilko Leh h mann mane she he seems seem to be b equally quail satisfactory tory lor In the music of ot composers who Iho dif differ fer ter er u as a widely aa M and Wagner her Elizabeth In Tann lann hauler heuser r which she sang fang un at the Wag Wagner Wagner nl ner n r festival In Munich the remarks remark that the tha th prayer was wa sung lIun more beautifully and with Ith more feeling thaw than by h any an other soprano In Inears ears The critic congratulates her on having personal beauty as RS well as lIS a 1 lovely IO voice olle and remarkable talent u ILl uan ILla asan an a n actress act ns I |
