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Show WmWmhm'i TO HAVE A QRAND opera festival. BHB Wi f 3 Salt Lake is to enjoy its first rqal grand opera BBttKfl ill ' festival in years beginning Monday, March 37th, Hnfffln lit ' when the Savage English Grand Opera company HBJB iMff! 1 t and orcue8tra arrives on its special train from HB PRfli !' I California. The operas of "Lohengrin," "Gar- WM mil I II men," "Tannhauser" and Puccini's unrivaled "La HI m I i'1 K f "l ' Boheme," selected for the four performances hero will attract music lovers from all principal cities in Utah. This company that began its notable career nine years ago in Boston, followed by an unprecedented unpre-cedented success in New York, has long since won a position at the very top of American operatic enterprises. Prom a modest beginning with few principals and a chorus of mixed voices, giving a limited repertoire of lighter operas, Mr. Savage Sav-age has developed his original venture until he can now truthfully claim the largest and best English opera company ever formed to present grand opera in the vernacular. In nine years he has produced no less than eighty-one operas In English. The growth and extent of his present organization may be well conceived when it is recalled that the repertory each year includes at least a dozen of the greatest works of the master composers, all provided with special scenery, costumes, properties and electrical electri-cal effects. For these is required a triple cast of principals, including prima donnas, tenors, baritones bar-itones and basses, in addition to a great choral body of youthful, well schooled voices, many of whom are able to step out of the ranks and assume as-sume a leading role at an hour's notice. Then there Is the grand opera orchestra under un-der the Chevalier N. B. Emanuel and Elliott Schenck. Chevalier Emanuel, who has been decorated dec-orated by royalty both in Austria and Russia, has held the baton over the largest orchestras and all the great European artists during the past thirty years. Mr. Schenck, formerly leader of the New York Symphony Orchestra, has wielded the baton bat-on for all the great German opera singers in America Am-erica in recent years, and Is counted one of tho leading Wagnerian authorities. The operas In which this superb organization will be hoard here will be given with all completeness com-pleteness of detail. The engagement opens with Wagner's "Lohengrin," "Lohen-grin," famous for its beautiful "Wedding March" and poetic "Swan Song," to be given here for the first time, making the occasion one of the Important Im-portant musical events in recent years. "Carmen" "Car-men" will have a complete production Tuesday night with "Tannhauser" and its immortal overture, over-ture, "Pilgrims' Chorus" and other sonorous harmonies har-monies for a Wednesday matinee. Another choice offering will be Puccini's entrancing "La Boheme," with its picturesque story of Latin Quarter life as the closing performance. No such repertory has ever been offered opera lovers in Utah and with the English singing artists art-ists who have achieved pronounced triumphs in the east and south to sing the great roles, Salt Lake is promised an operatic treat that will bo memorable |