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Four new operas will be added to the repertoire: Deems Taylor's Peter Ibbetson, based on the novel of George du Maurier, in which will appear Soprano Lucrezia Bori, Tenor Edward Johnson, Baritone Lawrence Tibbett; Franz von Suppé's Boccaccio, a comic opera in which Soprano Maria Jeritza will appear as a male impersonator; Mussorgsky's The Fair at Sorochinsk, also a comic opera based on a story by Gogol; Le Preziose Ridicole, based on Molière's play...
...Opera plans. A list of operas likely to be added to the repertoire was published by Edward Gushing (pseudonym: Suetonius Jr.), able critic and newsgatherer of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle. It included Massenet's Herodiade and Richard Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos, operas in which Soprano Maria Jeritza will presumably have the leading roles; Strauss's Elektra with Soprano Gertrude Kappel, Wagner's Flying Dutchman, Verdi's Otello, Rossini's William Tell and Bohemian Jaroslav Weinberger's Schwanda, Der Dudelsackpfeifer (Schwanda, the bagpipe-player), never given in the U. S. New European singers...
...Iturbi, caviar on apples . . . Horowitz, Russian cutlets . . . Stokowski, raw vegetables . . . Hutcheson, mushrooms (he grows and eats them) . . . Cortot, bread and gravy . . . Brailowsky, lump sugar . . . Professor Erskine, raw beef . . . the Leners of the Lener Quartet, orange ice . . . Melchior, green apples . . . Gabrilovitch, sardine oil . . . Gershwin, cereal and milk . . . Schumann-Heink, onions . . . Jeritza, cabbage." Most, if not all of this list is verifiable fact...
Throughout the U. S. last week, many a musical citizen trilled on the keyboards of a Chickering, of a Knabe, of a Mason & Hamlin piano, all products of American Piano Co. factories. The Knabe is the official piano of the Metropolitan Opera Company; Jeritza, Ponselle, Titta Ruffo use it. Moiseiwitsch, Bauer, Ravel endorse Mason & Hamlin. The Chickering advertises itself as "essentially a piano for the home," is the oldest in the U. S.. was the favorite of Franz Liszt.* And almost all great pianists have made music rolls for the Ampico reproducing grands, which are also an American Piano...
...When Soprano Maria Jeritza made her Metropolitan Opera debut in Erich Wolfgang Korngold's Tote Stadt, Manhattan was scoured for a "property" lute called for in the book. No lute could be found; a guitar was used instead...