mor Carpi and the Italian Compan Reponsibility and Great Assemblage of Artists and Properties company 19 fame of Opera singers at Home seasons; during the sea-large sume, but they have their slack periods," and often an engagement which means solid sud continuous work for a act reception given in Ronour of priceipe: l members of the Italian Gpers Company now playing at Lyceum Theatre, in his private lat at No, 1 Canton Road. Several of the star singers were unable to a! tend, owing to the call of rehears-could be obtained, The Call of the Kast period at a rather less amount th they might get from their various engagements and free periods, is a attraction, two Great Singers Among the players who have performed in Shangnai this season perhaps the most outstanding is Signor Reali, whose performance rigoletto" and Inter of the fathe "La Traviata," will not soon be forgotten. Signor Reali sed of a magnificent. voi He is only @_ years of age and has 3
The success which has greeted company while they have ber Shanghai, and fron all in Manila also, is due to the fact that an exceptionally strony list singers, many of them with repute tions over Burope aad seme Armeriea, have been engaged. The majority of these singers would not have found it worth while to sur-various, theatres fand other parts ut Europe were it not for a desire, Sommonls expressed, (0. see what the last couple of Vigg apace on the front pages of Home newspapers appealed to most of the players, and they signed their contracts for the tour of these r2- zion with enthusiasm, "From what ould be gathered in' conversat they hive had little time to see the real sights of this cits, Lut as soon ay the pressure of work permits, they will investigate tha native city, the various curio shop: and other parts of the town whicn have become famous to tourists without the least delay, To bring such a company out to Shanghai entails a capital outlay of about, $300,000, according to Mr.
arp, 'The scenery, which must ba Varied and suited' tothe ved, costs fees, While in addition the return nil the players, umbering fares to ly have to be paid for this instance, including the urehestea, About 75, and totalling in money about §100,000, presentative of the *North-China, Daily News" yesterday he stated that the part of Rigoletto was his favourite one. But he has played parts {1 nearly all of Verdi's operas and can fill a handsome role in any one of them. Signor Reali he heard of in -many different ions before his operatic career Mile, Bodini, whose part in "Aida" on Tuesday created something of a sensation in music-lov circles, confided tous that hoe favourites were among the modern operas. She has been singing crand opera for seven years oF more, And knows two of the older operas well enough to feel she can do the parts and herself fall justice, One of the two is "Aida," in which all who heard her will agree that hee claims are too modest.
Some of the adventures of the: [company when they first arrived—lute for the first night, but fully aware of the importance of the Impression to be created both on. cities and the general public by their initial performance, were explained to us, The tension of got Ung late off the boat from Manila, having (0 experience the bustle and worry of scenery being pat up haphazard, places on and elf the stage ound, and the general business of Preparing to deliver to a critical andignes an opera like "Il Trova tore" wrought hard on the actors singers. The artist in every tone of them, however, rose to the Art and the Risk 'a flaw, as the yeoney ths investing the suet nieces of the company is a serious financial speutation, anid the man ho takes the risk must Lo prepared to face some considerable loss, On'y desire to show re: lat stage. irre provide a sulla the Speculation, the fan with such c has face the chances of an unapprec tive public, the risks of hist cammections" from one port to. other failing and leaving hint fan engaged theatre, for which he whether he is playing it of not, In addition there ars ieknesses in his company: to a count for, The public are not pacified by the plea that a tenor a soprano who Is best suited to art has been sudden!
they want the they do not get it, they Angle with a Silver Hook Teet to an almost undreamt Hogree is necessary for the successful impresario to bring a, company reaction afterwards was territi, AMD of the felt at the ame time that theft stork had suf fered on the wer Europe, and has sung operas as sorite of the jercatest rraone la the world of muse: aso, for instance. Of the operas the' Hist be present company his Aida," and he ix able to self meet heartily into his there, He has had the dist to the conducting of ini, ove of the greatest Iie. conductors, before 75,000 people ie in Rome. soprano, is a singer with a remark. able range of voice, being capable king on slramatie soprano parts as well og those in her own ranks. Her object in joining the company is to see and understand the Orient, and her chiot i hae his agents and friends in Holy who inform him of promising sini ers. To the singers he has to present a certain amount of guarantee and security; why should they. lea its and come and sing in t—with all its mythical Gangers of typhoid, plague, cholera, eie=when they might be having erugagements in local theatres. One ducement is, of course, the retation of the company they have ateen asked to join al years Mr, Carpi has red the Ensty his rood and paid t0 the iainute, comtin wimployiment for 18 another is the prospect of al as an Italian artiste, toured Spain singing as Carmen—to do which one must have the utmost of skill and technique. While on her tour sit Portugal she was presented to King Alphonso in Lisbi and to the Infante Isabella.
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