| Show lit II II GRA GRAND DOTER A AL SUCCESS SUCCESS IN THE UNITED NIT D STATES II U 1 I 00 I 4 t i f i t tS I tI S 44 L 1 S I 1 I r t J i l j I CARASA CARMA TENOR I the th country countr Is t on nn the evo I or of grand opera Hong birds tAIN lock In the tho tall rail They aro at best beet lIt when tho the snow Is ls Ison lson on the tle ground or when there are arc eager I and aud nipping airs In fl tho long winter I 5 nights flights I The story atory of ot opera In the 1110 United States Sl begins at New York city Null because that was wan the first a ac c iLIa landing plate place In the liis country countr for or the liis songsters after afler tho the S few tow seasons In iii the metropolis the country grew grow and other localities also alMo got In turn tune And AttI now there are sea eca seasons S sons of ot opera OP tI and havo hao been for tor many years In Boston Philadelphia Balti Baltimore Baltimore more mor Washington and In Inthe Inthe Inthe the cast ast Cincinnati and Chicago In tho tha middle and San Ban Francisco on the Pacific coast with Intermediate clUes cities for or short hort seasons In New Orleans I there Is an nn opera house houlle the only ont one of ot the kind hind In tho United States where French opera Olera Is ls given exclusively In French It U has IMS be been n In existence for tor tormore more than a halt century The public Is hI tolerably conversant I with wit the tho vicissitudes and tribulations that encompass a II season Sia on of ot opera and follow tollow In Its Ita wako wake The path poth of ot the Impresario has been more cactus lined S than thun strewn with rosebuds nut hut tho the public Is music mud mad and has been ever cerInce since Ince a 1 lot of ot the tho Florentine nobility jot got ot together at the end ond of ot o tho the sixteenth century and ami resolved re to free dramatic music mu lo from Us liB An appreciation of ot the growth and spread ot of grand opera In this thia country can an be lie Imd had only by a hurried review of ot Its Initiative In New York city Tho The first home of ot Italian opera In the metropolis was tho tim lark Park theater In J I H O After Arter a I few fluctuating seasons another place was wall selected th the Rich mond HIli theater In 2522 The Th hail b ten en on transformed from a private residence that had been occupied by Aaron Hurr Burr The under Man Manager ager Du flu Ponte lont faIled but notwithstanding standing he persuaded led n a number of ot rich men man to r It the lb Italian Opera Opra Ope House HOllie specially constructed with a n I w of ot presenting opera of ot the tIM Italian The house hou WAS at the of ot Church Chunh mid Leonard struts streets I s It 11 Iti Itt i t and Willi In tn No N I ember fm r 15 1 ISM It two managers I and for tor some earn time utter tUr the failures I I Italian Hallan op opera opra ra m m ed d doomed In this I There was I n a caterer In 1814 named AmeI taimo He lie had hal made 1001 A ft fortune feed feeding t tn feeding ing n New Yorkers Ills place laco Is la still r T by b octogenarians It Jt stood tood on the tho corner comer of ot ansi and Duane Dunno street He lie built an nn opera op m house houe houseIn In III Chambers street In the same Mme block blk nil Ca tho the new now hall hAil tit ot t records H It was wall tim tho th theater In the United l States Stul that had n II tier of or private boxes Its ra cc rapacity parity was ns BOO Opera In this house hou and the man who put tit up UI tho the building died 1111 an nn object of ot charity Still the tho public cried for tor opera pera In 1847 1841 tho the Astor Aster Place Ilac Opera House was W S opened It vas built by Now GE REACHE R cos 0 sr WV Yorkers and opera was waa produced there I Ifor for five live years Mrs Tho The house held 1800 people Tho Tue management had spirited rivalry from tram the Castle Garden Ir IP flat Bat Battery flatten tery ten park and from Garden On one occasion while the tho Astor Allor Place I was WWI closed Its rivals rIvIs got possession of ofU It U anti and utilized P I for a dog dolt show The Tue scheme schema worked It H I killed tho the house for opera So o It was n a log dog straw how that led to the tha building of or the Academy of or Music In I which the Prince of ot Wales Vales once danced d The structure cost It opened In October 1864 18 and Norma was the tho opera Her for tor a generation opera seemed to have a II permanent 1 she he New French and Italian Schools Have I II I Supplanted the Classical Favorites Growth of the Art In This Country tee roe In its I New Vork tork city ItS It remained for tor song HOUR for tor thirty r 1 rs Hut lint the drift of ot population was wan wasI u I I m Thie led to the Metropolitan MetropolitanS S My Ity fell In III with the tho fur for many man mann n 5 t wins tOOn otto One on of nr whIch wes 11 tint that It w private ansi the thoi the theold theold old Academy never Imd hlll Any mention of the th old Academy that failed to ro romall oil mall It was Willi that lattI merle her lier Unit Hll In grand opera In Inthis Inthis this country would be fatal to n a writer rIter She bhe Imd hod h previously sung Bung In concert In hall bali In Birth of the I ITh Tire The Th Metropolitans first director tor as star Ear find brut Abbey ht had Imd Christ Inn I IAB I II I AB Aa showing how the th demand for tor grand Brand olom wn was In New NewYork Ne NewYork York and In tim the It Is ls only I to state hat the tho cost 01 of ot the house home the Including I the reni e was waa as Never N vr I I I I I I i I I i at the tho close clos of ot ti the Ort first season coRset I Ithe the lira lomi Ieee wes was A Ieee lo In buM bu flees neM In ill grand opera 11 not within Itself mean that the public has failed to Iron Had chat shat chatI I t r I s the most liberal patronage In I spite of ot the tuft fact that II Abbey lost In tie II much to fortify frond rand opra In Inthe Inthe Inthe the United H lutes Out of or twenty 1111 I four cur promised premised operas fur for the te season m mh he h gave nineteen In New York city and ltd IM he gave I we of the Ihl ity II performances In lyn In Boston Philadelphia Chi Chicago en go I Cincinnati St tout Louis Washington and I I w 1 I U e V ill I f t N L 7 f L A I I 4 3 vf r S S S S P O a I SIgnor lanNI The Tite house houst was under tho the management of ot Henry E Ii Abbey The Tho performance was In October 1883 Mapleson was vas yet ot hanging on to the tho old Academy and the original great war of or managers occurred while Abbey and were rival man managers managers managers agers had Patti and Ocr I I I SCOTT I With the Iho losses of ot Abbey at nt tho thu Met Metropolitan th the knell of the old Academy wa Willi lung and aud another anether company com pan tho the thoI I 1 that hall hail attempted to make mako a 11 place for tor Itself went to pieces About the tho same time In the eighties Gorman German I opera got foothold fool hold In the tho Thalia the thc thoI i liter ater In tho the flowery Bowery Gustav Guslav Ambers Amberg l y jJ w WI jI put It on Its Ita feet teet for tor a 1 short hurt season caso I IThe The Tle story Mory of or grand opera at nt tho the Metropolitan since I net Abbeys A time need no 1 not trot be he here herl It Includes tho thoI I camel of ot Con ConI Conned I ned and now 1 It nil as At tt the Metropolitan too that 8 wont went In 1 noo 1100 00 with his hili l op o oDem em m which he ho organized in Boston floston He its mud Itie the tile arrangement with Gran I mid I the tho season lasted Ills led from Oat Oct 1 to j lit IS 15 ISIt 1 i It Is ls already stated slated elsewhere In III this article Urn that I of ot grand opera not Imply a n fortune to 10 the I U It Is III recalled under the tho I of or Maurice who ho was considered In III his hili time tints A master meeter m Ih lit I managerial work ha hI got t from tho the pub public lie lic 11 for tor one of ot hla most moet suc suo successful seasons lI but hits his profit was only rut Iut his liis management and that hat of ot those too who wh followed In III his steps showed that grand opera was no longer longera a ft venture ventu In this Ihla country Entry years ago It would have hn b ben n madness for tor any one olle to predict tho the time would rents come In the pres prell present ent nt generation when grand opera In III New tw York city lIy would ouM demand another house commensurate C In magnificence and In the Ihl scope of ot productions with T the tho ho Metropolitan but It occurred when Oscar erected the Man Manhattan 1 hattan In a part lart ll rt of ot the city ell that had hadI I never seen lIeen up UI to that time a II able audience by lIy night The Manhat Manhattan Manhatten ten tan cost oost It 11 opened In Do De December cember ember 1906 It was na Intimated Intimate In somo omo that lint the tha erection of or the i Manhattan Opera House was the tho out outcome I come cents of ot prejudice and some potty 1 spite The rhe success suell o of tho the Manhattan since Mince It opened la I MII In answer to that statement Prejudice und and spite aro are short hor It If It were wore otherwise there thero would havo have been no occasion for Ham to go t tr tl other cities 18 s B he be behas has to Boston Philadelphia Chicago l 0 I I II I Jt I I I I i o T Y T DALVAREZ SOPRANO and other towns lowns In which he has bunt opera bouses antI and where ha in haa has rv opera successfully tolly if it J opera Olera lera had not expanded In the S coun try It Is it a question llon In the min nf 01 I runny whether there would have b en tO two great groat oot opera houses In New Joew ew York y I city While grand opera has hils gradually In lii tho the United States K Itt iu I most mo t ret Iee nt success Is II due lue to thru tIe the ne school Tho Tue manager who product h old time classical opra oP rl now MW Joel III more for tho the purpose of ot Pl 11 III ti voice of some Bomo particular Star tIun u tt b cause nUBe of or any an demand nn on lile tI part cf ct the public to hear henr tho opera Er Eves j Wagner Is no longer rated at lit mw mo m mem ern em emIt ernIl It Il does do not detract from th Ih gior gIOT glory of or grand opera that pleated tile tI fath fatten r to say Itay that the liis new nw school bs dl mci with tho the requirements of ot this chit Ial ago age and contributed t I n the ftc en of ot present enl day dey dR E Engers man In l opera the grat jr al nit art sr re those In which are Brt heard n 11 i r rt rr as na et el t Mi M 1 I Iv Debus y Louise by I Th l and l d l I Ma ent anti md nd Samson Sameon ct ot tJ iy ily y Saint gant I In Italian opera tho th Ih I lions that draw drav sod and live tivo Ih audiences and ond add udd to th iii fur eur i of tho the management by i and box omeo receipts nn lit h nal J i I by h and TJ I I To Tosca ca and ala UIl l Madan fatte Out nUt tardy by hy Puccini I Even American opera OIlra Is m k Ing tag Its WilY way toward as alt has bets been shown i h I Sw recent 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