Show emma abbotts hoped for grand opera detroit free pree preas 1 in n re response rea 3 po na 0 to td a r request e u e e t fo for a interview ter v view le w emma E m m a abbot b 0 t after arter the change of a few formal greetings reverted to her new play the night before leaving paris miss emma abbott signed a contract wit with edmund audran the compo computer com poter Eer of the maacotte Mae Mat cotte the cigale etc c engaging a g a ghim him t to 0 7 write lie for her a completely alte ly beff g grand r d opera which she will arc produce y with ilia magnificent magnificent stage effects in america in the season of 1893 1803 miss abbotts present contracts in the united states terminate nate in may 1891 daring during the period intervening between that date and the production of her new opera she is engaged to sing in concert opera and oratorio in english french avera german erman and italian in the principal ps european capitals the direction of this tour will be in the hands of mr vert the well known london I 1 impresario yea yes said miss abbott with a flush ush of enthusiasm in hr h r face and eyes that grand opera of mine will bejes ejes be so one such much as the opera world orl d has never seen before 1 mean it for years I 1 have been carrai carrying the theme in my mind al I 1 have pondered over it hours t together og ether and have long cast about me for the man who has genius and anth enthusiasm u siram for the work and I 1 think too that in edmund audran I 1 have found him for whom I 1 searched I 1 regard edmond audran as the greatest musical and dramatic genius alive niters perhaps are his equal in aubic al I 1 ability but but be he by the possession of youth genius and enthusiasm is in finitely the superior eu of any of his big eon contreres freres 11 what is the theme of your grand opera 11 oh sir air that is a secret a profound fo and secret ill I 1 but I 1 am so 80 A afraid fraid some one will find it out here the prImi primly donna donn a la laughed gleefully in her own peculiar rip rippling I 1 fashion at the very idea lea of a woman with a it secret safe from the we world id the theme she added almost in the he same breath is from a very famous lamous novel the situations are EO so dramatic the lines so rom romantic tender antle strong oh ob I 1 wonder it that at no one hai has not seen the of this novel long ago AL addran is to deliver the manuscript to me in time tor for my european tour in 93 until then well it Is a it profound secret 11 1 |