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From Maestro Pietro Mascagni, the "one-opera-man" (TIME, July 28), now in Vienna, the Opera Comique has ordered a lyric drama based on the successful Plus Que Reine, by Henri Caën. Under the title More Than Queen, it was produced in the U. S. in 1899, with Julia Arthur playing the regal part. It is a dramatization of the career of the unfortunate Empress Josephine, willowy victim of Europe's "man of destiny." Mascagni has already set himself to work transcribing her sighs into pathetic whisperings of violins and flutes...
...shaped auditorium seating 10,000, opera, grand or comic, has been given nightly. The principal singers and comedians are imported; the choruses are local talent - St. Louis boys and maidens, trained throughout the Winter months. Velvet Summer twilights in St. Louis thrill to the strains of Verdi, Mascagni, Gilbert and Sullivan; the moon, that vision of still music in the sky, looks down upon declamatory stars in tinsel and brocade...
...Pietro Mascagni, due to arrive in the U. S. in a few days, together with the score of his new opera, II Piccolo Marat, and a company of Italian singers (TIME, July 28) is not coming, after all. Something very unfortunate has undoubtedly occurred. Said Mascagni, according to a Budapest despatch: "I had a contract to go to New York, but I am not going. New Yorkers don't know anything about Art. They have money, but no conception of artistic things. I know what I am saying; I am saying what is in my heart. I sent...
...Mascagni has said that he would not come to America because it is a dollar country, empty of Art. His music is not good enough for Americans. American audiences are the best in the world. New York is the greatest centre of music in the world...
...this as it may, Maestro Mascagni remains discussed abroad. Inundated under wreaths, well-nigh buried in bouquets, he last week responded 100 times to the frenetic applause of a Vienna audience which heard him conduct Verdi's Aida. The performance was given in the huge amphitheatre, scene of numerous sporting events. On the stage were 2,000 musicians, singers, dancers-Italians; in the audience were 20,000 listeners-Austrians. Without imposing a defeat, the former scored a victory, orderly, harmonious. In this azione, were cast the finest singers of a honey-throated nation. Signora Poli-Randaccio was Aida, brought...