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NATIONAL OPERA AT LAST.
\ 1 7 H A T to do with our American sing-
* " ers abroad has been magnificently
solved by Maurice Grau of the Maurice
Grau Opera Co. and Henry W. Savage of
the Castle Square companies by their ar-
rangements to give grand opera in Eng-
lish at the Metropolitan Opera House.
The company will be known as the Met-
ropolitan English Grand Opera Company,
Albertieri will have direction of the ballet.
The orchestra, under direction of Messrs.
A. Seppilli and Richard Eckhold, will num-
ber forty-six and will upon occasions be
augumented to seventy.
The stage direction will be in the skilful
hands of Edward P. Temple, who staged
the first productions in this country of La
Boheme and A Basso Porto.
The following list of singers contains
the names of some strangers, but the
greater portion are well known:
SOPRANOS: Zelie de Lussan, Rita Elandi,
Minnie Tracey, Fanchon Thompson, Grace
Golden, Frieda Stender, Josephine Lud-
wig, Phoebe Strakosch, Ingeborg Ball-
strom, Selma Kronold.
CONTRALTOS: Delia Niven, Katherine
Miss Minnie Tracey, soprano, is the
daughter of Col. John Tracey, of New York
and Washington.
Miss Tracey's first opera engagement was
for seven months at Geneva, after which
she sang in Nice, Marseilles, Cairo, Monte
JOSEl'H SHEEHAN, TENOR.
HOMER LIND, BARITONE.
LLOYD D AUBIGNE, TENOR.
and will play in New York from October
i, until December 15, inclusive, after
which it will make a tour of the large
cities, returning here for the spring season.
The principals number thirty-one,
twenty-one of which are Americans, most of
whom have had great success abroad.
HARRY 1)A\ [ES, TENOR.
The chorus, eighty-five strong, are all, so
to speak, young, fresh, selected American
voices, while the ballet will consist of
thirty-six dancers most of whom were with
the Grau Opera Co. last season. Mr.
Condon, Ragna Linne, Mae Cressy, Louise
Meisslinger, Elsa Marney.
TENORS: Lloyd d'Aubigne, Joseph Shee-
han, Harry Davies, Philip Brozel.
BARITONES: Homer
Lind, Chauncey
Moore, F r a n c i s R o g e r s ,
William Paull, Winifred Goff.
BASSES: Clarence Whitehill,
Forrest Carr, Francis J. Boyle,
Harry H anlin, Lempriere
Pringle, Leslie Walker.
Carlo and Bordeaux. She was then invited
by Sonzogno, the Italian publisher, to sing
in Milan and Genoa.
Miss Tracey made her American operatic
debut in Philadelphia, as Brunnhilde, in
Reyer's " Sigurd,"in November, 1895, and
was Mr. Gustav Hinrich's leading dramatic
soprano during that season at the Philadel-
phia Academy of Music.
CONDUCTORS: Armando Sep-
pilli, Richard Eckhold.
The singers not yet heard in
opera in New York are: So-
prano,
Miss Elandi, Miss
Tracey, Miss Strakosch, Miss
Ballstrom, Miss Thompson,
Miss Stender and Miss Ludwig.
Contralto: Miss Cressy and
Miss Marney.
Tenor: Mr.
Brozel. Baritone: Mr. Moore,
Mr. Rogers, Mr. Paull and Mr.
Goff. Basses: Mr. Whitehill
and Mr. Walker. Miss Elandi,
whose name is taken from
Cleveland, the city of her birth,
studied in Paris with Mme.
Marchesi. Her operatic debut
was made in Rome in Bizet's
Pearl Fishers. After a tour
through Italy, Spain and Ger-
many, she gave the first English
presentation of the role of
Santuzza in Paris. She has
played many roles under the
batons of the different compos-
ers.
ELSA MARNEY.