The evening world. Newspaper, December 16, 1911, Page 8

- Wagner’ 8s Works Need New Setting; ' Metropolitan Behind the Times Mew York Gets the Great Singere, Saye Mme. Or- ridge, the New English Contralte, Because of Ite Wealth, but Artisti- cally It le Far Inferior to Germany. Why Not Cut the Inter- missions Instead of the Operas? She Aske-- Fashionable Folk Arrive i Late and Depart Early, She Says, So What Mat- ter to Them? BY SYLVESTER RAWLING. 66 Nam fa the real centre Of operatic understanding iF and appreciation,” said ‘ Mme. Theodora Orridge, the new Bagtich messo-soprane of the Metro eetitan Opera Company, to the writer, Getting in her apartment at the “You Americans are #0 complacent in the beltet | e-all and the endall of be found in your Metro Howee that !t is amuse @ then she added, whimal- New York America? You ve never been here before.” Orridge was singing in Prague iy rp F i s 3 er iytt Ht H i i i a i A t her for @ series of perform: t mi the Metropolitan Opera House the indieposition of Mme. Louise Bhe hee been heard hore as La “Giaconda,” Asucena in “Tro- Her through January, which she will return to Prague See Gwenty performances at the National Ceastre, when she will cing tn Itadian, the rem of the cast will sing in man baritones, for instance—there te a Dig reserve of eingera from which to choose for any part, and the singers alone seen to satiety your public, I have seen perform on here of Wag- ner operas that would not be tolerated in any German town, Much of the ecenery i» antiquated, In ‘Lohengrin,’ for instance, the supposedly solid trees @hake when the ohorus moves, ‘Gov terdaemmerung’ needa to be rehabiil- tuted, The ehip act of ‘Triata tol- erable, but the last act ts far better in Germany. Not only tmes but 4. Viennese would not tolerate anything lve. WEALTH ENABLES ENGAGE. MENT OF iT GINGERS. “The pride of jetropolitan Opera House is that it presente all operas in the language to which they are com- Posed, Hut that len't strictly true, ts it? How about ‘The Bartered Bride? The great Ith of the directors of ‘ain Now York does, however, en- them to engage the greatest ain era in the world. Practically, there ar two distinct companios at the Metro- Dolitan, the Itallan and the German. Except in one or ¢ partioulare Core will learn the language, fg two yeare of etudy Julia Marlowe’s Warning to Stage-Struck Girls A Judges’ Story of A Daring Girl Forger ' A 16-PAGE JOKE ALL THE NEWS came down the Rhine on his also bore Brunnhlide’s he arrived at the Hall is accompanied by a atable! ere did the fanrieas one find I asked of Mr. Herts, ‘iad he e unacorched through the fire, oF was he picked up on the voyage” It renily wae mort orieinal and amusing. “Then such cute as are made here the Wagner operas, Aven’: they alwa bse Use and sometimes atrocious “Hut, dear Madam,” the writer Inter- poned, “what would you have? Ifere 1a ‘Goetterdnemmerung’ starting to-night at 7.30 o'clock that won't be over much before midnight, Would you iinve us sit up until 2 o'clock In the morning” “Not No!" Mme. Orridge responded “Shorten your interminable intermin- sions and give the operan tn full. With. out the Waltraute econe “Gortterdaem- meruns’ Is not understandable and in Germany the opening scone of the Fates in considered musically the dent in the opera “The voxholders and the mmhecribers want the time for social chatting, you ay. But, my dear air, they come late and go away early, don't they? 80, what matter? "One Now York trait has impressed me very much—you? loyalty to old fripnda and cruelty to naw comers. Any finger who has established himself, of herself, with you can commit the moat unpardonable sine without reproach. Hut woe betide the atranger who makes the amatienst mistake! You eritics pounce upon him or her most unmercifully, HER GREAT AUNT A PHILHAR-| MONIC FOUNDER. tolligent she ta beautiful. was @ suspicion of molature about he: eyes. Tho writer, his conactence amiting | to change the con- and finally auc: Jontal remark that Warlter in the tak} Jyo had dwelled upon the ceeded by proved “But you know Mr. Krehbtel pointed out only a few days ago that the Now York onic Society ta ae old @ Phitharmonte Soclety. Indeed 1 do know it,” Mme, Orridge said. “Just walt @ minute until I find a letter from mother that I received only recen She produced It and read from It to the effect that her great aunt, the wife of Charles Horn, was one of the found- ers of the New York Phitharmonte So- clety. This led on to more intimate talk mut herself. . 'T played the ip I took tb the plano 1 1 a voice which ghould be cul- I went back to London to con- Manuel Gureta. He heard ao back to Germany,’ he 1 tivated. sult that “1 did. When I returned he said, ‘Ohild, you ai a right. Just go on sin: y ing eongs. One day, In Vienna, Gustav Mahler by chance heard me singing Brahms. ‘Come to the opera house,’ naid he, ‘and sing for me.’ I aid. ‘You utter inexpert to mak | Gris him for something he had written about |" “| requiem to celebrat Don't bother | 2 THE _BVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 16, & most astonishing thing, When Me; fried vn h ce was fortunate enough a sucess then have «ung in many but on in Austeian towns it Prague, In the National Thea- | tre, IT was permitted to wing Ortrud In ‘Lohengrin’ In English, while the others in the sang in Bohemian. The aud- fence awfully good to and, , 6 | ime, and as his pan forces are 80 strong [ suppose I shall not have a chance here.” And then the telephone rang and Mme. Ortidge graciously excused her- felt to meet other visitors. “QOETTERDAEMMERUNG” AT THE METROPOLITAN. Another fine performance of “Goetter- daommerung” was given at the Metro- politan Opera House last night befors durrian as Slegtried Hermann Weil as Gunther, Putnam Id as Hagen, Otto Gorite as Aioerich, Rita Fornia as Gutrune and Lenora Sparkes and Bella Alten as the other two Rhine maidens made a great cast. Herts conducted with fine fervor VERDI" MANZON! REQUIEM BY COLUMBIA'S FESTIVAL CHORU: The Columbia University Festtv Chorus of four hundred volees will give {te annual concert in Carnegie H Monday evening and sing Verdi's zont” requiem, with tho asaistance of Alma Gluck, soprano, and Herbert | Witherspoon, basso, of the Metropolitan Opera Company; Mildred Potter, con- tralte, and Charlies Hackett, tenor, under the direction of Walter Henry Hall, who has been appointed by the niveraity conductor of music of ti ‘arious societies, The chorus is co: posed of the Morningside Heights Chorus, the Yonkers and New Rochelle Choral Societies and the Brooklyn Ori torlo fo: ‘There will be a mi Cellaneous programme given befo he fiftieth birt y | al 19117 ——— ‘The Halevy Otnging Society wil! assiat. Catherine Dupont, assisted Sy diss Thursday evening and Friday afternoon | years with Jean de Resske before she Mr. Stransky has planned @ TAsst cen- | diectosed her lovely voice and art to us tenary programme, with Arthur Fried-| last year, will give @ recital in Recital heim, the pianist, soloist. The Dante | Hall next Wednesday afternoon. Her) Hauser at the plano, and Miss ‘Arts, symphony will ®¢ performed with the| programme includes compositions by) harpist, will produce “Idle Hours in the aid of & women's choir from the Mc-| Georges Hue, Debussy, Rachmaninoff,|Far Bast’—recitations tn costume—at Dowell Chorus, Techaikowsky and Echlebert-Nevin. the Plaza Hotel on Tuesday afternoon. The Murical Art Soc Nina Dimitrieff, Ruesian soprano, will) Mr. and Mra. id Mannes will give York's mom admirable give an all-Russian recital at Carnegle'the second of their delightful sonata WII give Ite fir | Lyceum to-morrow afternoon, Bugene|recitale for violin and piano at the season at Carnegie Hall mext Tuesday | Bernatein will be her accompanist at panes Theatre to-morrow night, evening. Dr. Frank Damrosch, the con- | the plano, ductor, has selected a programme mostly of @ capella compositions, that y, one of New == prot @amuct A. Baldwin will give hie The Commonwealth Syeaphony Society, | usual free organ rec! a dates back through four centuries, Leon M. Kramer con: to-morrow and W — fourth concert in the 4 o'clock. who studied some Educational Alliance jed_until Jan. 9. 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