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The Grau Company for a Season of Eleven Nights. A Grand Galaxy of Singers to be Heard. The Famous Voices of the World at the Auditorium for a Two Weeks Season. The farewell season in Chicago of the Maurice Grau Opera company from the Metropolitan opera house, New York, will include thirteen per formances beginning Tuesday evening, April 7. There will be eleven even ings and two matinees on Saturday, April 11 and 18. Mr. Gray has given the entire charge of the Chicago opera season to Mr. G. H. Wilson of Pittsburg, manager of the Pittsburg orchestra. Mr. Wilson ar ranges for this Chicago season six months ago and has devoted almost the entire time since the first of the year to the perfection of the arrange ments. The prospectus received sure ly carries out the promises of the most brilliant season of opera known in Chicago The company this year has as its principal artists Mmes, Sembrich, Nor dicn, Gadseki, Scheff, Levgard, Reuss- Rehe, Bauermeister, Marilly, Van Cau tere, Schumann-Heink, Bridewell, Ho mer; the more important men artists are, tenors: Albert Alvarez, from the Paris Grand opera house; Alois Burgs taller, his first appearance in Chicago, direct from Bayreuth and Madame Wagner; George Anthes, long the favorite of the Dresden Royal opera and a great Wagner singer; Carlo Dani, the matinee favorite this year in New York; Emilio DeMarchi, the best dramatic Italian tenor now before the public: Thomas Salignac, Jacques Bars and Robert Vanni. The baritone and bass list is superb: David Bispham, G. Campanari, Charles Gilbert, Adolphe Muhlmann, Antonio Scotti, Anton Van Rooy, Robert Plass, John Elmblad, Marcel Journet and Edouard DeReszke. There is a new German conductor this year, Alfred Kertz, who is said to be the best Wagner conductor since Anton Seidl. The other conductors are Luigi Mancinelli and Philippe Flon, well known through their participa tion in previous Chicago seasons. Mr. Wilson promises a more com plete ensemble during the Chicago sea son than has ever been the case. All the operas will be staged with the scenery used in New York; there will be a chorus of a hundred, a corps of dancers numbering forty and an aug mented orchestra, about seventy-five players. The thirteen performances include no repetitions and the works are so chosen as to give opera lovers of all schools a most interesting anticipation. The performances are scheduled as fol lows: April 7th at 8 p. m.—Double bill: “Daughter of the Regiment” and “Pag liacci.’ April 8th, at 7:30 p. m.—*“Die Walk ure.” April 9th, at 7:45 p. m.—‘ “Die Meis tersinger.” April 10th, at § p. m.—*Faust.” April 11th, at 1:45 p. m.—(After noon), “Tristan and Isolde.” April 11th, at 8 p. m.—(Evening), ‘Aida.” April 138th, at 8 p. m.—‘‘Don Gio vanni.”’ April 14th, at 8 p. m.—‘The Masked Ball.” April 15th, at 8 p. m.—‘Siegfried.” April 16th, at § p. m.—Double bill: “Don Pasquale” and “Cavalleria Rus ticana.”’ April 17th, at SS p. m—*‘The Prophet.” April 18th, at 2 p. m.—(Afternoon), “The Magic Flute.” April 18th, at 7:30 p. m.—‘Gotter dammerung.” Specially interesting to music lovers in this vicinity will be the announce ment of the two afternoon operas and the evening operas following them. It will be noted that on Saturday, April 11th, there is a splendid performance of “Tristan and Isolde’ in the after noon, with Madame Nordica, Madame Schumann-Heink, Mr. Anthes, Mr. Van Rooy and Mr. Edouard DeReszke. Such a cast as this could not be equalled the world over. On the even ing of April 11th “Aida” will be given with Madame Gadski, Miss Merilly, Madames Homer, Mr. DeMarchi, Mr. Scotti and Mr. Journet. The opera for Friday evening, April 10th, is “Faust”? with a cast entirely new to Chicago: Madame Fritzi Scheff as Marguerite, Mr. Alvarez as Faust, Mr. Campanari as Valentin and Mr. Edouard De Reszke as Mephisto. Probably the greatest opera day of the season is Saturday, April 18th. In the afternoon Mozart’s “Magic Flute” with a cast as wonderful as was the case last year when it will be remem bered the receipts of the opera at one performance were $14,000. The cast in cludes Madame Sembrich, Madame Gadski, Madame Seggard, Madame Fritzi Schaff and Madames Homer, bridewell, Merilly, Van Cauteren and Mapleson. The ten singers for this performance are Mr. Edouard DeResz ke, Mr. Salignac, Mr. Campanari, Mr. Derriche, Mr. Reiss, Mr. Muhimann and Mr. Vanni. The “Magic Flute’ will be given a magnificent staging in cluding the entire menagerie and all the panoramic effects. It was only last week that the New York Tribune in speaking of a “Magic Flute” perform ance in that city asked the question as to who could succeed Madame Sem brich in the part of the Queen of the Night in this opera, and the question cannot be answered. The closing opera of this season on Saturday evening, April 18th, is Wag ner’s “Gotterdammerung” with Mmes. Nordica, Fritzi Scheff, Miss Bridewell, Mr. Burgstalter, the best Siegfried heard in New York in twenty years, Mr. Blass, Mr. Muhlmann and Mr. David Bispham. The season ticket sale for the entire thirteen performances begins at the box office of the Auditorium theater, Chicago, on Monday, March 23. The Auditorium seats 4,200 people and it is acoustically the best opera house in the world. The season's prices are $39, $32.50, $26, $19.50, $13. Boxes seating six, $30 per performance. Mr. Wilson will give particular at tention to mail orders from this vicin ity; they should be sent at once ac companied by cheque and the tickets will be mailed. The single seat sale for the first six performances, April 7th to 11th inclus ive, begins Monday, March 30th, and for the second week—April 15th to 18th inclusive—on Thursday, April 9th. The prices are $3.50, $3, $2.50, $2, $1.50 and $1. Mail orders, if accompanied by cheque, will be answered and tickets selected after the sales on March 30th and April 9th respectively begins. No more than five tickets will be sold on a single order for the same performance. Mr. Wilson, who man ages the season, was a leading candi date to succeed, Mr. Gray at the Met ropolitan opera house beginning next season; he was formerly secretary of the Bureau of Music of the world’s fair, Chicago, and has been prominent in the development of music in Pitts burg since 1895, when Andrew Carne gie asked him to come there.
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Burlington Evening Gazette
Burlington, Iowa, US
Tue, Mar 24, 1903
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