PER HISTORY PAST AN PRESENTi
less to attend the opera in its fashion¬ fortune to a monastery, much against able home than it. does not to enjoy Cost of Production in the the hopes of his relatives, who had j the moat modest, theatrical entertain¬ Opera gathered around his deathbed. Schicchi ments.barring tho moving picture German Period «ays there is one remedy only; he can shows. the of Music impersonate the dead dan -whose de¬ When Academy 1887-'89. 1888-'89. was in Max Maretzek rented l»886-'87. mise has not yet been announced and When both parties in the course of the new, 18f>4, Serge Prokofieff, the latest because he had lost his temper. By H. E. Krehbiel strug¬ Salaries of artist«.$121,000 $10S,132.82 $135,498.32 dictate a new will, assuring tho reía- gle between the Metropolitan the house for a space to Mr, Hackett, j musical apparition from Russia, who "Japan is full of Russians and As a to the of history Company Orchestra . 40,000 42,408.75 46,206.00 lives that each of them will get just; Amer¬ sequel chapter and Mr. Hammerstein when the then manager of an opera company will appear as pianist, conductor and icans, and so I heard almost concerned with the increase in prices rivalry headed Grisi and 23,962.75 26,295.00 what he wants. The relativos arc de¬ noting between the Metropolitan and Manhat¬ by Mme. Signor Mario, Chorus. 25,000 composer at the concerts of the Russian hut Russian and English spoken in ol admission in 1911, I purpose now to two of the most refulgent stara that 17,869.00 lighted at this idea, and send for a y, tan houses was at its When Bullet. 19,000 16,567.33 Symphony Society next Tuesday and j streets," continued the young conduct an limited in scope height. ever blazed in tho firmament. notary. The notary comes, and Gianni Ruggf,,, inquiry, Mr. Hammerstein attempted to reëstab- operatic Conductors, stage managers, ballet Wednesday, was planning his trip to as he went on with his Japanese «not because of unwillingness on on their power of attraction, Schicchi, in Buoso Donati's sick bed,: America and the ad' any lish that rivalry in defiance of an Counting masters, etc._ 13,000 24,067.33 13,176.00 discussing delicate ventures. "I gave several avenues of in¬ agree- with of dictates hi:' but, after I concern my part, but because the ment to remain out of the coupled that the iiew house, Front of the house. 16,423.76- I will; bequeath- question of passports with three suc¬ there and found the native operatic field (20,000 a few to audiencei formation are few and narrow") into for ten Mr. Hackett charged $3 for the par¬ | ing minor cessive governments, he found one and I years, it became a loud note in Advertising . 16,000 11,176.47 12,781.13 the heniece3^_"propertyleaves the bulk of intelligent appreciative. amused the cost of opera-giving in New York, the quet (orchestra) stalls, and from $12 relatives, thing conveniently common to a!l on one occasion, legal proceedings successfully Transportation._ 11,000 8,317,82 10,4.81.56 Donati's fortune to himself. The rela- myself, by trying y, which was alleged to be the reason for! to $40 for the boxes. These prices the j three, the Czar's. Kerensky's and ent with a prosecuted to enjoin him from carrying Stagehands. 9,500 9,244.51 10,174.62 tives not dare of experin programme. I ¿^ the advance. This increase was effected out public thought exorbitant, and showed do protest for fear the Bolshevikian .respect for the voted one-half to his purpose. Public sympathy and Wardrobe - tho law. Chopin's music and by means of the devious device of first its resentment by from department.... 6,900 3,994.96 The young lovers, however, of artists as in judicial decree were asked on the staying away j person expressed the other to my own compositions. The the rebate allowed to sub¬ tho on the first Property department. 4,506 4,427.42 9,280.17 are made happy, for Schicchi's portion abolishing ground that the public good, not private performance night. exemption from military ervice udience pparently did not object to thus the who made record of tho Royalties . 2,500 9,606.52 7,376.59 will fall to Lauretta. The scribers, leading speculators gain, was the aim of the generous gen¬ Maretzek, fact, other day Mr Prokofieff to'd this unusual combination. Rhythm to announce nn in of said that the The casts of the three operas will advance prices tlemen, who are an audience numbered only us this with pride and intimated means a great deal to the maintaining institu¬ ! be as follows: Japanese from $5 to $6, then, proclaiming the 1,500. Hackett promptly reduced his that such a state of affairs was an evi¬ and musical sound tion which is unquestionably an elegant "IL TABARRO pure almost noth¬ latter sum to be the standard, and re¬ prices one-half for the second i (THE CLOAK) dence of an advanced form of civiliza¬ and lordly ornament of our civic and night, ! (Jioritotta .Claudia Muzio ing." the rebate to the agents, but and this was still further re¬ Cost of in One Season of Grau I tion. When the storing social life. To review some of the Re¬ price Operas Luiid.Giulio Crimi cauldron of Russian Mr. Prokofieff is tall, slight and bbnd. not to patrons who made their sub¬ duced to $1, and kept there till Mr. Michèle. ..Lulgi Montesanto dissension began to boil so fiercely that tails of the administration of the in¬ and One of Conried IlTinca. .Giordano Paltrinieri A disciple of dissonance ;-.r.d the u tra through the box office. Maretzek up enough courage music was for a time f:'om scriptions stitution, which has thus been pro¬ plucked II Talpn.Adamo Didur banished modern school, his hair and dress are or not this to the fortifi¬ to raise it to was the Vendito re di Canzoni.Pietro Whether led claimed as a beautiful and beneficial $1.50. This price, 1902-'03. 1904-"05. Audisio daily life, the young man too'; his old normal His manner ¡3 neither cation of the of I when the cost of La Frugola.Alice Gent!« mother rapt nor system speculation, public trust, can therefore be looked believe, high living Artists and staff.$522,315.13 $544,153.11 L'Innamorata.Marie Tiffany by the hand, and a bundle of soulful, but intelligent and wide awnke. which is become an almost intolerable the Civil War affected also the L'lnnamorato.Albert Reis scores under his arm and upon as a proper privilege and laudable during Chorus, ballet and supers. 41,386.89 66,212.13 fled to the Thus: he makes no attempt to make I leave to the of the cost of to the but it. re¬ SUOR ANGELICA the south'ands evil, judgment purpose, to which even an altruistic aim going opera; Orchestra and stage band. 85,569.29 95,083.40 Ukraine, of Russia, where capital out of his personality. His readers of the history, who are willing mained at $3 until the advent of the Suor Angelica.Geraldine Farrar there were no Bolsheviks and where might be attributed if I were to choose Steamship transportation. 16,799.60 20,656.07 La I'iincipessa.Flora Perini first recital here some weeks ago te read in the of the facts dis- House, I believe. on a light to claim it. Metropolitan Opera. Railroad transfer and La Zélatrice.Marie Sundeliua charming country estate he spent iroused conside able discussion, but he ciosed the scandal which followed If it was advanced to $5 for the first transportation, scenery I La Badessa.Rita Forma a year in solitude by During the last two generations the etc. La Maestra Delle Novizie.Cecil Arden devot;ng many refrains from taking himself too seri¬ hard on the heels of the as, season of Italian about which baggage, hotels, 36,209.52 72,687.30 hours each to advance, price of admission to the opera ha.? opera, Una Conversa.Marie Tiffany day composition. óla y, even with a contract from related in the of these memoirs been I have no time to at this Costumes, wardrobe department and wigs 18,110.59 15,953.83 Altra Conversa.Ven i Warwick Diag- chapter increased from 400 to 600 per inquire junct-. Suor Osmina.Marguerite Bellen After twelve months of sec'usion the hileff t' produce one of his ballets in printed a ure, it was reduced to and remained Music and royalties. .. 3,517.16 3,499.67 fortnight ago. centum. In some of its features, I $4, Una Novizia.Phyllis White young man grew restless. He cast a one pocket and an invitation from make no there the German Commissions and sundries. 2,356.62 4,371.54 Suor Genovieffa.Mary Ellis Altruistic doubt, the increase in the throughout rôgimo; Sorella preliminary g'ance over the musical C eofonte Campanini to submit an Purposes that from 1884-'85 to Infermiera.Lenora Sparkes cost of opera-giving has grown in pro¬ is, 1890-'91. On Advertising. 16,566.91 25,167.42 Suor Dolcina.Marie Mattfeld situation in Russia and promptly de¬ opera for his consideration in another. In order that there may be no mis¬ the return of Messrs. and Grau Prima Sorella Cercatrice.Kitty Beale portion with the charge for its en¬ Abbey Seconda Sorella cided that the time to cross the ocean "Perhaps Mr. Campanini wi I say'You conception of the motives underlying and the auccesaive administra¬ Cercatrice. .Minnie Ebener; joyment. It would be interesting to during $743,031.71 $847,783.97 GIANNI SCHICCHI had come. Leaving his mother in have written such nonsense that I the inquiry, let me add that during the into tions from that time down to the inquire the causes of the increase 1911, Gianni Schicchi.Giuseppe De Luca safety on the tranquil estate, he set out would not dream of producing your last decade and longer there has been in cost and standard was with $2.50 as Rinuccio .'..Giulio Crimi for also to attempt to deter¬ price $5, Lauretta America, via Japan and San Fran¬ opera'," remarked the nonchalant a persistent proclamation of altruistic mine the unit at the .Florence Easton whether or not the advance in ar¬ popular Saturday nights Naciesca .Marie Sundehus cisco. In Japan he was surprised at young man as he lit a cigarette. This purposes as distinguished from selfish tistic lier" and "Parsifal," to which I am in¬ as much in the German years as any Nella .Mari«1 tho achievement bears any reason¬ The Cost of Five Seasons La Tiffany Japanese way of estimating noble was a hopeful sign, more commercialism on the part of the di- able clined to allot a measure of Ufe in the I single first conductor since the days of Vecchia.Kathleen Howard encouraging ratio to the increase in cost to Gherado .Giordano Paltrinieri birth and perfect manners. The su¬ than if he had insisted upon rectors of the Metropolitan Opera Com¬ the I am publishing .herewith tabulated Conried-Gatti list. IM r. Gatti. The royalties account is Cherardino playing givers of opera and its patrons; .Mario Malatesta preme test, it appears, is in maintain¬ over the score. His greatest source of pany. It was the burden of the song but statements touching the coat of giving smaller in the later régime than in the Marco .Louis D'Angelo this would be a more formidable Present Average Cost Betto .Paolo Ananian ing a serene and unruffled exterior, no rejoicing appeared to be derived from chanted in the newspaper interviews by task than I am to opera at the Metropolitan Opera House earlier, which would be inexplicable Simone .Adamo Didur matter what ready undertake and Ser the provocation to the con¬ the fact that a certain firm wou'd now one during five seasons, from which itwill bo The average cost of giving opera at did we not know that Mr. Stanton paid Amantio di Nicolao. .Andrea De Seguróla which the policy of reticence pur¬ Pinellino .Vincenzo Reschiglian trary. When Mr. Prokofieff remon¬ publish his music. Every work that sued the possible to see to some extent, in which the Metropolitan Opera House at pres¬ royalties not obligatory under the law Guccio strated by Metropolitan Opera Com¬ .Carl Schlegel with u native waiter spilling a comes from its press must be passed MUSICAL INSTRUCTION departments the cost of giving opera ent, I am told, is over $10,000 a night. for the use of the Wagnerian dramas. Spineloccio.Pompilio Malatesta pany concerning its financial affairs (a Conductor, Robert Moranzoni bowl of soup over his white suit, he upon by three severe judges. Medtner, which is their has grown abnormal and enormous. In 1886-'87 it was $4,302; in 1887-'88, Tho increase in wardrobe and proper- was policy unqualified right) The other operas of the week are greatly irritated to behold the Kussewitsky and Rachmaninoff. The makes Comparisons between the different, 84,432; in 188-'89, $5,224; in 1889-'90, ties is inconsiderable, a fact partly due impossible to one not con¬ as follows: man's continuous and sunny smile. last of these to return a faiorable cerned in it. The years cannot be made definitely except S5.386; in 1890-'91, $«V180. In all these to the natural accumulation of such as- When he only basis which we "Madama on had further expressed himseii verdict was Rachmaninoff, and as the A. TORRENS us regards certain details, for the rea¬ it must be borne in mind, the I sets, but in Butterfly," Monday L. years, transportation prodigious, on have for such a the comparative study is evening; on subject a.-, a Russian and ar older man, the representative of an¬ son that the operatic seasons differed cost, of an orchestra seat was $4, as due, of course, to the policy of "Trovatore," Wednesday Teacher of provided by the reports which were giving "Elisir artist, the still countenance other of musical expression Singing in length, and in the years of Mr. against the present price of $6. Else¬ performances outside of New York evening; D'Amore," on Thurs¬ beaming generation placed at my disposal for public use of the servant was all the more had hitherto shown to Grau's management (1902-'03) and Mr. where I the tables referred to, City. day evening; "Boris Godunoff," on Fri- myste¬ unwillingness Dean of Vocal Faculty during several years when the owners print day and "The rious. Later on he heard the waitei recognize the worth of Prokofieff's COSMOPOLITAN SCHOOL OF MCSIC, of the Conried's (1904-'05) the cost of giving given out by Mr. Conried in March, The Increase Justified evening, Daughter of the Metropolitan Opera House were at the telling a comrade that the Russiar compositions, the was the more CHICAGO, ILL. also opera outside of New York is included. 1900, and three tables showing the cost It is in Regiment," Saturday matinee. victory the purveyors of the entertain¬ tho light reflected by these A was evidently a very common fellow joyful. K. W. Will teuch In Nctt York, January. Feb¬ It is equally impossible accurately to of opera in as many seasons during that special Verdi-Puccini programma I ment, and a report concerning two sea¬ figures tho statements made live will be at ruary and March, 1910. appraise past and present artistic re¬ the German régime. It will requir«! given to-night's concert, un- sons, which for a purpose still incom¬ years ago to justify the increase in the der the of Address sults, for the reason that while, tho some to lind points for direction Gennaro Papi. The AMUSEMENTS prehensible to me, Mr. Conned made speculation price of admission must bo read. These who will _AMUSEMENTS Mr». J. S. WATSON, Jr., Sec. German seasons developed a standard comparison in some departments, but ¡artists take part will be: York in the spring of 1906. These, and these statements were that the cost of pro¬ Mines, 6 Washington Sq., North, New list of which has remained cur¬ in others there are some that are h'aston, Romaine, Sparkes and I ¦ B Telephone Connection. only, arc open to us for analysis. operas duction had grown so high above the £ B H B B fl B B 3 H SB B S B B 9 K H & B B £ rent for years the list has obvious and Braslau and Messrs. Diaz, LKXJXUTON THEATRE 51ST ST. AND MADISON A\lr. M twenty-five pretty equally significant. receipts as to become a burden on the Kingston,! Fluctuating Prices been the cost the Chalmers and Mardones. 91 BERNARD M. O'NEILL pr ¡j¡ «Conductor.Coaeh.Accompanist at least temporarily disarranged Inside of fifteen years of stockholders of the company, because There was a STUDIO HALLl period, not an ignoble by a change of policy caused by the orchestra, for instance, has been doub¬ the taste of the to de- 220 Madlion Avenu? one either, when public hadxcome New York the public paid much war. led, while that of the combined chorus more Vladimir 1'hone 4^7 Murray HiU mand not costly solo singers, but Resnikoff CAROL ERB however, thai German and ballet has remained practically un¬ ¡PEACE CONCERT: Assuming, more eminent conductors, a better and Vladimir Resnikoff, a some young Russian P Sunday Eve, Dec. 22, at 8:15 m operas will day be restored to the altered. larger orchestra (though the orchestra barytone, will give three MUSICAL INSTRUCTION Metropolitan repertory in all their intimate song AMERICAN We may assume that the. cost of is only two-thirds as large now as it recitals at the Greenwich House on it- remains a re¬ :kronol::., "INFALLIBLE METHOD OF MEMORIZING" puissance, significant hase been was in a larger and better j Barrow Street, Sheridan T. ANTOINETTE principal singers largely 1910, Square, in the I PAULIST CHORISTERS : CONCERTS INSTRUCTION flection that during the seven years t>6l W. 147th St.. N. Y. Tel. Audubou 1959. increased, but we are at a loss for chorus (though that was reduced near¬ j heart of Greenwich Village. These re- :::::: PIANO III inn HARMONY when the owners of the opera house FATHER FINN CONDUCTOR » specific information, because the sal¬ ly one-half in numbers as soon as the citais will be given on Sunday even- | CONCENTRATION II II MEMORY gave opera on their own account as DEVELOPED WARDII U aries of conductors are included in the rivalry with Hammerstein came to an ings, December 15, 22 and 2'3 at 8:30 THE TRAINED additions were made "A". STEINBERG MINDS OK STUDENTS SO TRAINED THAT many permanent more c'clock. item and staff" in the latter elaborate more Besides . Ol* SINGING. THET KNOW EXACTLY WHAT TO DO AND "artists end), scenery, ef¬ j English and Italian BARITONE.TFÄCHER EXACTLY HOW Tu Do to the Metropolitan list as during the the SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA IT. RUSSIAN 25 WKVt ÍKItli HT. '!>]. Hiver. 9028. TECHNICAL, FREE¬ tables. Possibly, also, the cost of ad¬ ficient stage management Mr. songs, first programme contains DOM. SCIENTIFIC TONIC PRODUCTION. THOK- combined consulships of Conried and (though 1 Ol GDXY MUSICAL INTERPRETATION. ministration, which is surely out of Conried brought such eminent crafts¬ a group by Rachmaninoff, which will MODEST ALTSCHULER : : CONDUCTOR Gatti. I am omitting works familiar to j 1 B MME. CONCENTRATION.SIGHT all proportion now to what it once men a3 Fuchs and Lautenschläger to be in the original tongue. Studio Recita!» READING.HARMONY the before the Metropolitan 75c to $3. DANIEL H. FRIDAYS al 3. I'ubllo Invited. public was. It is saying nothing new, more¬ his aid) than used to suffice, besides | Prices, Management: MAYER a TORPADIE VAN Opera House was opened, and which Q I 1 I 'S 1 B 1 S S B B B B B B B B BBSS) ¦ VOCAL AKT. 8:it CARNEGIE HALF. g. DYCK STUDIOS over, to say that conductors, stage a large increase in the cost of material Park ¦ h. «j^ët. appear in both lists, but as to Thieatre might managers and balletmastera combined and an item which is incontesta¬ Jit the of new works labor, Gilbert and Sullivan's "The Gondo¬ League of Americ, quality compare (with men like Seidl and Walter Dam- ble. The matter of < ARNEGIE LEO BRAUN < on or croît1 "Fidelio," "Pie Meistersinger," principal singers liers," at the Park Theatre will be HALL «Ü "Tris-j rosch wielding the baton) did not cost was waived and I will not go into it. given on AT METROPOLITAN OPERA HOUSE. 1425 COLOMBÀTI tan und "Das "Die Monday, Wednesday and Fri¬ 3 Broadway Konner prima donna Metropolitan. Isolde," Rheingold," ,oTO-DAY Vole« «nd Repertoire. Operatic Ensemble Olajws]