October 15, 1929
PRESTO-TIMES
Mason will have the part of Iris in Mascagni's opera
and Antonio Cortis will sing the leading tenor role,
with other important assignments going to Giacomo
Rimini and Virgilio Lazzari. Rosa Raisa will sing
the part of Conchita in the third novelty of the reper-
toire, Antonio Cortis will be the Don Mateo and
Maria Claessens the mother.
Announcement of Novelties and Revivals in
Of the four works which are being revived, "Don
Quichotte" was last sung during the 1913-14 season
the Repertoire of the Artists to Be Heard
when the title role was taken by Vanni-Marcoux, who
in Chicago's New Civic Opera House
has again been entrusted with this important interpre-
Arousing Keenest Interest.
tation. Singing with him this season will be Hallie
The following announcements and data concerning Stiles as La Belle Dulcinee and Desire Defrere as
the forthcoming Chicago Civic Opera's presentation Sancho. The cast for Die Goetterdaemmerung was
of forty operas during the season are well worth re- announced to include Frida Leider, Maria Olszewska,
Theodore Strack, Richard Bonelli and Alexander Kip-
cording here:
Three novelties and four revivals have been in- nis, with Egon Pollak conducting.
cluded in the repertoire for the 1929-30 season of the
Claudia Muzio will sing the role of Donna Leonora
Chicago Civic Opera first season in the new Civic in "La Forza del Destino," last given in Chicago dur-
Opera House, Wacker Drive at Madison street.
ing the 1923-24 season. The cast for "II Tabarro,"
The novelties are "Camille," by the young Chicago last sung here during the 1919-20 season, has not yet
composer, Hamilton Forrest, to be sung in French, been announced.
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Of the standard repertoire, "Falstaff," "Gianni
Schicchi." "Le Jongleur de Notre Dame," "Louise,"
"La Gioconda," "Martha," "Tannhaueser" and "La
Traviata" return after one year's absence, while
"Tristan und Isolde" has been absent for two years.
Europeans Coming In.
Emil Cooper, the Russian conductor who is joining
the Civic Opera Company this season, has arrived in
Chicago. Maestro Robert Moranzoni sailed aboard
the He de France on October 9 and will be in
Chicago this week. A letter received from Madame
Maria Olszewska from Vienna announces that she
will sail on the SS. Bremen from Cherbourg October
17 and will come to Chicago directly from New
York. She should be in the city by October 25.
Alexander Kipnis has also announced his sailing
with Madame Kipnis on the same boat. The Olym-
pic, which sails from Cherbourg October 23, will
bring Theodore Strack and Madame Frida Leider.
Egon Pollak, who is returning to the company after
an absence of twelve years, will sail on the bS. Maure-
tania, leaving Cherbourg October 26 and arriving in
New York November 1.
Richard Bonelli, who has been engaged with a
concert tour, arrived in Chicago recently by motor
from New York city. Rosa Raisa and Giacomo
Rimini are at the Congress hotel, Chicago, where
they will remain, except for a brief absence this
In Different Languages.
month, until the end of the season.
The complete repertoire, including novelties, re-
Claudia Muzio will be leaving Chicago this week
vivals and the standard works, numbers forty operas, for her concert tour. She and her young husband,
of which twenty-four are to be sung in Italian, ten in Renato Liberati, Italian newspaperman, have been
French and six in German.
occupying the bungalow on the roof of the Morrison
Mary Garden will create the role of Camille in the Hotel, Chicago.
opera of that name, included with her in the cast
Edith Mason has taken an apartment at the Belden-
being Charles Hackett and Chase Baromeo. Edith
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and "Iris," by Pietro Mascagni and "Conchita" by
Riccardo Zandonai, to be sung in Italian.
The revivals are "Don Quichotte" by Massenet, to
be sung in French; "Die Goetterdaemmerung" by
Richard Wagner, to be sung in German, and "II
Tabarro" by Giacomo Puccini and "La Forza del
Destino" by Giuseppe Verdi, to be sung in Italian.
The standard repertoire will be chosen from the
following works:
"Aida," "Falstaff," "Otello,"
"Rigoletto," "La Traviata" and "II Trovatore" by
Giuseppe Verdi; "Gianni Schicchi," "La Boheme,"
"Madame Butterfly" and "La Tosca" by Giacomo
Puccini; "Don Giovanni" and "The Marriage of Fig-
aro" by Mozart; "Norma" by Bellini; "Don Pas-
quale" and "Lucia di Lammermoor" by Donizetti;
"The Barber of Seville" by Rossini, "Martha" by
Flotow," "The Jewess" by Halvey, "La Gioconda"
by Ponchielli and "L'Amore dei Tre Re" by Monte-
mczzi, all to be sung in Italian; "Carmen" by Bizet,
"Faust" and "Romeo and Juliet" by Gounod, "Sam-
son and Delilah" by Saint-Saens, "Louise" by Char-
pentier, "Le Jongleur de Notre Dame" and "Thais"
by Massenet and "Pelleas and Melisande" by De-
bussy, to be sung in French; and "Lohengrin," "Tann-
haeuser," "Tristan und Isolde" and "Die Walkuere"
by Richard Wagner and "Der Rosenkavalier by Rich-
ard Strauss to be sung in German.
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