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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 22, 1908)
TIIE SUNDAY OREGOMAX, PORTLAND, NOVEMBER 22, I90S. Hammerstein Imports Opera Singers Great European Artists Will Appear at Manhattan Opera-House This Season. ' its ' -'" t w" "fco . -A. :.Y i'. -- s, -vv ; ' ;. fr -..'- '.-J I ,- --V' ' :' It- :rr-V4 " . V . ' ' - Vs. ( ' : .. .; a f ' . I'- - 'A ::'::v.'S s.r : 4 . ""! , ; -; ' ,v V . 1 1 jvj7M7 zo&M. .cowrjzALro or the ir . Art . , . i . W :- - y:-":- m . r - - . ' : : , '"-v.-, ' h vf . V - .. ;r m ,r- ; '- - ' -"V. " : . ' v ' 1 , -ft - -v- . V' . ,. ' 1 ' h; : -; :::: ' '' V'iv ' NEW YORK, Nov. ir-. (Spetial Cor respondence.) Tifsd are the smiling tares of ome of Ms slnscrs wlilrh greeted Oscar Hammrrstpln when he met "I.a Lorraine" recently. Do the !ng-era love Mr. Hammerstein? They certainly do. They all kissed him on one cheek or the other, and- voiced their affection for lilni In unmistak able term. Why do the singers love Uior Hammerstein so? Because he has revolutionised opera In New York and made It possible for so many of them to obtain contracts to appear in this country at top salaries, because he has shaken the mu&u-al worid out of the tut Into which It had fallen and caused a, complete reorganization of the older opera-house. Because he Is Oscar: and Oacar stands for enterprise and daring and taste and Judgment. To understand why the singers love Oscar one must go back a little in the history of opera. When the Manhattan Opera-House was planned, the Metro politan was under the management of Helnrlch t'onrted. ilr. Conned was a narrow-minded man. whose ciiief am bition was to force the expenses of the Metropolitan opera-House down and Its receipts up. He had a splendid subscription list, whose permanence waa almost assured by the soi-lal pres tige attaching to the ownership of sea son tickets to "the opera." So he had little to. fear from his ratrons. So he et about dealing with the songbirds on a cold business basis. He announced to each that .lis or her pay would be reduced so much -If not the a:nount paid for each appearance, at least the tiumber of appearances during a sea son. -In this way he proposed to keep feafor tdm subscribers the same long m ( ( . ' I . s : je s ' . . V. ; r1 JJy, fc pa aS list of of renowned singers, but to give them about half as many appearances of efceh. The singers objected strenuously. Some of them quarreled with Conried and went on concert tour, refusing to appear in ..ew York opera at all. Oth ers fought as hard as they could up to the last minute and succumbed to the new conditions, still protesting. When Oscar Hammerstein announced his plans for the Manhattan operahouse, Mr. Conried had his establishment on an economic basis unknown to recent years of operatic management. - He did not take Mr. Hammerstein very ser iously, especially when he found that the new impressario was planning tb rely on perfection of ensemble rather than great individual singers for his success. Mr. Hammerstein tried good ensemble opera and learned that ha had mis judged the taste of the American peo jjlo. They wanted stars ths old con ditions against which every manager of the Metropolitan naa ioubih vmnij for years. So Mr. Hammerstein de cided to give them stars, dui ue na another card up his sleeve. He had discovered In his first season that there were many good voices in Kurope un known to the American public He had "discovered" Boncl. one of the greatest lviHn tennra of modern times. He had brought him to America and Mr. Con ried had bought mm away ium Manhattan at the end of the first sea- ii ti..r.iin went to Europe and' haunted the operahouses on the search for other voices. luu.m them. He brought to New York the i tt. v, i.nnr tcaw York had ever heard Charles Dalmores. The Metro politan tried to get him away last season and failed. He discovered Mary Garden, the darling of the Opera Com lque In Paris. He discovered Tetrazzlnl the "second Pattl" over whom London was going wild. And he discovered new oDeras "Louise.' inais, iva Contes d'Hoffman." With these he made a season of opera which toon new York by storm and in the face of the Kn.lnaa. .-rtTl fl i 1 1 0T1 In 15 VOarS and of powerful opposition. Mr. Ham merstein scored a Dig nnucwi " c" as artistic success. This year he has more singers, chief among them that vnnrierfni harltone. Sammaroo, Mary Garden. Melba, Tettraziinl all the peo ple who made his season auccesstui usi year and new ones, too. Mm, nifio whn him Inlned Hammer stein, is a Boston girl who went abroad a dozen years ago on the recommenda tion of Philip Male ana maao utr u but In Brussels six years ago as "Brangaene" in "Tristan und Isolde." Dalmores sang the part of "Tristan." Mme. Dorla will sing "Amneris" and nth.. iMdinff enntrAlto roles. She brings a great reputation from Europe. The jaDia, wno aiso comes w jum Oscar Hammersteln's forces is a real "Contessa." She la unmarried and the youngest of four daughters of the Count Labia. Her oldest sister Is a successful singer: the other two are a Dlanlst and a violinist, respectively. Labia's mother accompanies her wherever she goes. She has made a great reputation in Stockholm and at h Onera Comiaue. in Berlin. One of her favorite roles is "Tosca" and as Hammerstein has procured the right to all the Puccini operas this year, she opened in mat opera. P. dl Segurdla is one of the new bass singers. He Is from Barcelona and has sung with success in South Amer ica.. Charles Dalmores blew a cornet be fore he discovered that he had a fine tenor voice. He was one of Hammer steln's discoveries. He has sung both seasons at the Manhattan and helped Mary Garden last year to make a suc cess of "Louise" and "Thais." Benefit Concert for St. Agnes Baby Home A PROGRAMME which appealed be cause of Its diversified beauty was the reward of the large audience that crowded the Heillg Theater Friday night on the occasion of a concert toward the funds of the St. Agnes Baby Home, and the event was In every way a pleasant success. Never did the Heillg stage look more daintily pretty. The scenery was exceed ingly well selected, the background be ing a woodland view and a hint of a fountain. Rugs and flowers helped out the artistic picture, and the four lady singers and the accompanist were gowned in white. To help the cause Mr. Heillg gave the use of the theater, only charging the net cost of operating. Other friends were equally kind. The Lakme quartet, composed of Mrs. May Dearborn-Schwab, Mrs. Ethel Lytle Boothe, Miss Petronella G. Connelly and Mrs. A. T. Bushong, gave the concert, assisted by Miss Cornelia Barker, violin ist. Miss Delia Bradley, reader, Stuart McGulre, baritone, and Mrs. Arvilla Mc Guire Stolte, accompanist. I found the programme Just of sufficient length, the last number concluding exactly at 9:30 o'clock P. M. This is a good hint for future occasions. The Lakme quartet Is making marked advances in art, and is a real credit to musical Portland. Its work Is serious and dignified, and the ensemble work of the singers has now that finish and ease which marks the first-class musical or ganization. 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