Show l 0 D'ALBERT'S ALBERTS OPERA OPENS IN I. I h Pleasingly Depicts Spanish i Peasant Life With Wagnerian Wagner- Wagner t ian Flavor i ITALIANS ITALIAN'S WORK WORK IS HEAVY Sicilian Players Not Expected I to Make Long Run in inI I Melia I I II p I I p I BV J. JU U S GRANT New e York Nov SO 28 Tho Tho season seaon of or grand opera opeN up to 10 this date has bas bee bce I Ia u a L and 11 I and thoro 1 I Is er e every ery reason leason to belle bello belloe c e that neither th the Metropolitan Ope 1 house nor the n will bo be turned into hotel or building In th th- I near loar future The t feature aturo of tho week weel In opera a wae vS I the first in Lof i L of ot D' D opera j Is t a Ii typical al verSion of or Malta of hc I lowlands which Was T presented D ts ts tlC dramatic form last year scar by Bertha I I AlIch th groat reat Yiddish h actress The Tho primitive story of these theca Spanish I peasants e ants is 18 told b by lbert D' with moro more grace than L Leoncavallo onca or s It bavo shown shou In their tIer treatment of at Italian HalI ItalIa Ital Hal I Ia ian I peasantry Ills His treatment of ot the ho he r opera Is 18 frankly Tho I ro th the moods of ot the char Chili f involved tho In-tho In tho drama with in infinite In ill ill- finite charm In lU Its Us Interpretation Miss JEmmy proved herself again to 10 boa a lyric and dramatic tic artist of ut ex extraordinary x- x quality It 0 a aThe The Tho nationality of ot Eugene tho the COI composer poser Is la a a. puzzle which It would ta tai taZ the ingenuity of the historic Philadelphia lawyer to 0 puzzle pu out He Ito I ha baa hai a 0 French numo namo am and rU was born In Ir Scotland Ills his moth mother r was English and j bl father w t well known cnown dancing lancing master mas A ter and composer of oC dance tunes wa wari was wal walI I ri 11 the tho son on of ot t a t captain of ot fir artillery 1 f y and or of a 11 m mother whose an- an Ince ce hll'S were Hus t Kut Though edu educated du- du UI U- U I ante In III England whore where Sullivan Prout P and were among 7 j t v his bis teachers he ic LL adopted Get Germany many UH ts I t bis country countr ant and wrote savage a remarks about the British barbarians Ils Liszt t esteemed him hini ono of or his best Lest pupils an and subsequently lt Includes the thc United St Slat tell OR repeatedly la In his conert con coa- ert tours Deeming the honors of ot an 11 I Itinerant pianist p too he lie beti lJean be- be an to ti works and chamber chambor music and in 1893 his nis firs a opera Dor Der was produced a at al This was followed by other onor operas Ij Gernot Die A In brel else e Solo KaIn 1 Der t tor r. r S S SI I One mark marJ of tho co cosmopolitan characters char char- r acter cers of or r. r New ow York orl Is the tho fact that I pta pla of or orall all nationalities come hero to exhibit bit their art tart and always alway with satisfactory results to themselves Vo 0 o have hare ha had Russian companies s. s French I companion companies German companies and anti so soon son on n down own tho list and anti now MC e tc ha c an nfl lt Italian compall Tho Vho Uro t wa theater opened It its 0 doors for the appearance of or orlI lI ni and her company of or Si Sicilian SI- SI I- I cilian players Enchantment 1 a l Sicilian irant Irama In I three hr e acts h by lV was s the play that tho the company corn com pany pani interpreted 1 fo for oi the first time be before before be- be fore tore the public of or orew New ew York Tho The development of the tho first act tak lakes place In an un enclosed arl o of ofa a n faun farm under tho the shadow o of Mount etna Aetna and all the fire fhe and fervor of ofa a a. volcano s emed to be infused et Into the thella lla Climax follo followed ll climax in ic quick ton and at the end of each act ael u oyen curtain calls call were award award- lit r a suitors actors tor i IF i F tt a a. lc arUs the Sicilian Players They lie a I. I lIt bl for forthe the thc aM rage Arn American rican going ta te That they iv will III attract attraL big houses for or awhile is certain JIlt but that th they will make maize a R place lace on the American stage I 1 ver very inu imi-h imi h doubt are arc bela being completed for laying the corner stone slone of the w Na-w ew l ater Tills This will nill be dono done lh the c eiter on 0 of or r Decem December hl 1 15 16 It was vas oriGInally to have tho the corner cornel cornerstone stone atone or of or thc eu endowed owe pla put III in place December 3 3 but tho directors decided to to postpone I ho llao c ceremony It IB is Ol d many ninny ell v oe known kno public men inca will ill bo lc present Including Including- Governor Gov Gov- Hughes ant and other officials as well wen a as Mayor flavor or McClellan and arid others There Thure will be he an elaborate musical program which will Include tho the ino- ino iii 11 of a a. a. a by members of ot tho the n Opera company and aud hll hU an an orchestra wilt will play pla under tho the direction of or Mr h Nahun lt It 1 la Is planned to have Q several se patriotic eons eon 8 and Miss Farrar will sing Tho Star J Banner I Miss Misa Bertha ottha G Galland will win make o her hor return to the tho stage in Philadelphia Christmas week lu in u lL play pIny pIn entitled a Tho The of ot Eve Ew written by 1 L. L V. Do Dol Dodd It Is described l as 08 a comedy of or too today 0 a it boy and gIrt 11 brou brought hl up in tho the wilderness by an old retainer and introduced for the first time Ume Into modern society as us adults o S lr dr William Collier r. r ion long a n. favorite In Now Xe York returned this week to tho G theater In a now new play called 1 The rIte Patriot of which ho he in Is pa part author collaborating with Mr Ir Hartley Manners Tho Thc pia play Is a farce which depends for HH ItH humor on tho sharp contrasts of 1 r life lire In a 3 0 evada a mining camp and In fashionable London Tho The pla play abounds in those quick scintillating speeches for or which Mr Collier is famous Tim nw vIa pla PlaY the tho ox- ox supporting v company and th tho j 2 star himself were i with genuine |