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Tuesday.--Tosca Puccini...
Operas scheduled: La Bohème, Andrea Chenier, Mefistofele, Tosca, Romeo and Juliet, I' Pagliacci, Rigoletto. Also Puccini's three new pieces, Il Tabarro, Suor Angelica, Gianni Schicchi...
Last Spring Jeritza returned after her second New York season, and Vienna greeted her with a tremendous ovation. Her feud with the tenor assumed larger proportions. The first excitement came when he refused to sing a performance of La Tosca with her in May. The composer, Puccini, had come to Vienna to direct his Manon Lescaut. He took a hand in the disturbance, effected a partial reconciliation between the angry singers. They appeared in La Tosca together...
Jeritza: " I was enthusiastically received in my native Vienna, where I am going to sing Tosca with the prices for seats 'the highest ever charged.' Reporters would not believe me, however, when I told them that in New York opera seats came as high as seven dollars...
...remaining operas will be: this afternoon, "The Snow Maiden"; tonight, "Tosca"; tomorrow evening, "Die Walkyre"; Friday, Madame Butterfly"; Saturday matinee, "Carmen"; Saturday evening, "Jewels of the Madonna...