Review of reviews and world's work . ut unfortunately severalof these works are as yet uncompleted,and none is scheduled for immediate pro-duction. So we shall have to content our-selves, so far as the Metropolitan is con-cerned, with the best that Laparra, Converse,Goldmark, Humperdinck, Tschaikowsky,—the inferior Tschaikowsky of the operas,—Bruneau, Leroux, Franchetti, Wolf-Ferrari,Blech, Pair, and Lehar can give us. Mr, Hammersteins promises contain morestimulating matter. He has, to begin with,captured the operatic sensation of the year,Strauss portentous Elektra, which is fair-ly certain
Review of reviews and world's work . ut unfortunately severalof these works are as yet uncompleted,and none is scheduled for immediate pro-duction. So we shall have to content our-selves, so far as the Metropolitan is con-cerned, with the best that Laparra, Converse,Goldmark, Humperdinck, Tschaikowsky,—the inferior Tschaikowsky of the operas,—Bruneau, Leroux, Franchetti, Wolf-Ferrari,Blech, Pair, and Lehar can give us. Mr, Hammersteins promises contain morestimulating matter. He has, to begin with,captured the operatic sensation of the year,Strauss portentous Elektra, which is fair-ly certain to provoke a wider and keener in-terest than any other new work on the localoperatic horizon. He has secured alsoStrauss earlier and delightful , who appears to be the patron saintand tutelary angel of Mr. Hammersteinsestablishment, is represented by four worksunfamiliar to New York: Herodiade (inwhich Massenet anticipated Strauss as a del-ver in Salome-lore), Sapho, Cendril-lon, and Griselidis. Mr. Hammerstein.
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