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...Wagnerian Opera Festival, German company now touring America, will continue their performances at the Lexington Theatre, leaving the Manhattan Opera House, where they...
...Wagnerian Opera Festival should teach a lesson to producers of opera: You can't go out and pick up an orchestra as you would a pair of shoes. The singers are in most respects excellent artists. One could easily call them outright a great troupe if it were not for the matter of acoustics. The Germans are playing at the Manhattan Opera House. Vocalists may have beautiful, ringing tone in that auditorium, which in another theatre they lack. But the singers of the Wagnerian Festival seem excellent, notably the baritone Schorr. By comparison they have made the orchestra...
...Indy is today one of the two foremost figures on the French musical horizon. As a youth, with the vision of youth, he recognized the genius of Wagnerian music when it was generally condemned in France. He attached himself to Cesar Franck, greatest of recent composers, and remained loyal to his master throughout his bitter struggle to reform French taste and introduce the new musical standards. His reward has come in seeing Wagner and Franck justified, France raised to a high place in the musical world, and himself made leader of one of her two greatest musical institutions. With Saint...
...cast is to include Mmes. Gadski, Schumann-Heink, Alma Gluck, and Messrs. Berger, Whitehill, Reiss, Goritz, and Ruysdael, all from the Metropolitan Opera Company, of New York. Mr. Alfred Hertz, the eminent Wagnerian conductor, will direct the Metropolitan Opera House Orchestra, augmented to 120 players. All of the singers have made memorable appearances in their roles both in the Wagner Festival at Bayreuth and in the Metropolitan Opera House...
...most interesting and valuable of the Wagner features of the number is Professor White's article "Some Sources of Richard Wagner's Ideas and Ideals," brief but suggestive account of the main forces that contributed to shape Wagner's ideas, with a historical review of pre-Wagnerian reform-movements...