San Carlo Grand Opera Company

              1914
POPULAR
GRAND OPERA
SEASON 1914–15
ODEON
AUSPICES
SAINT LOUIS GRAND OPERA COMMITTEE

An Unprecedented Opportunity to hear High Class Grand Opera at popular prices, 50c, $1.00, $1.50, $2.00


FIRST WEEK

Monday Evening, November 9th, at 8:00 o'clock
AT ODEON
RIGOLETTO
OPERA IN THREE ACTS BY VERDI



RIGOLETTO
ANGELO ANTOLA


THE DUKE
FLORENCIO CONSTANTINO


GILDA
EDVIGE VACCARI


SPARAFUCILE
PIETRO SESONA


MADDALENA
CAROLINA ZAWNER


COUNT MONTERONE
NATALE CERVI


COUNT CEPRANO
ANTONIO CETTI


GEN. MUS. DIR.
GIUSEPPE ANGELINI





Tuesday Evening, November 10th
Odeon Reserved for Another Event — No Performance



Wednesday Evening, November 11th, at 8:00 o'clock
AT ODEON — DOUBLE BILL
CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA
OPERA IN ONE ACT BY MASCAGNI



SANTUZZA
ESTER ADABERTO


LOLA
CAROLINA ZAWNER


TURIDDU
GIUSEPPE AGOSTINI


ALFIO
ANGELO ANTOLA


LUCIA
AMELIA SEDELMAYER


GEN. MUS. DIR.
GIUSEPPE ANGELINI



FOLLOWED BY
I PAGLIACCI
OPERA IN ONE ACT BY LEONCAVALLO



NEDDA
ESTER ADABERTO


CANIO
FAUSTO CASTELLANI


TONIO
ANGELO ANTOLA


SILVIO
L. DELLEMOLLE


GEN. MUS. DIR.
GIUSEPPE ANGELINI





Thursday Afternoon, November 12th, at 2:00 o'clock
AT ODEON
BARBER OF SEVILLE
OPERA IN TWO ACTS BY ROSSINI



COUNT ALMAVIVA
SALVATORE SCIARETTI


BARTOLO
NATALE CERVI


ROSINA
EDVIGE VACCARI


BASILIO
EMILIO SESONA


MARCELLINA
A. SEDELMAYER


FIGARO
ANGELO ANTOLA


FIORELLO
L. ROSSINI


GEN. MUS. DIR.
GIUSEPPE ANGELINI





Thursday Evening, November 12th, at 8:00 o'clock
AT ODEON
LA TRAVIATA (Camille)
OPERA IN THREE ACTS BY VERDI



VIOLETTA VALERY
REGINA VICARINO


FLORA
AMELIA SEDELMAYER


ANNINA
ANNETTE CHABOT


ALFREDO GERMONT
GIUSEPPE AGOSTINI


GIORGIO GERMONT
A. MODESTI


GASTONE
LUCIANO ROSSINI


BARON DOUPHOL
D. DELLEMOLLE


DOCTOR GRENVIL
NATALE CERVI


GEN. MUS. DIR.
GIUSEPPE ANGELINI





Friday Evening, November 13th, at 8:00 o'clock
AT ODEON
AIDA
OPERA IN FOUR ACTS BY VERDI



AIDA
ESTER ADABERTO


THE KING OF EGYPT
NATALE CERVI


AMNERIS
CAROLINA ZAWNER


RHADAMES
FLORENCIO CONSTANTINO


AMONASRO
ANGELO ANTOLA


RAMFIS
EMILIO SESONA


A MESSENGER
LUCIANO ROSSINI


GEN. MUS. DIR.
GIUSEPPE ANGELINI






Friday Evening, November 13th, at 8:00 o'clock
AT ODEON
AIDA
OPERA IN FOUR ACTS BY VERDI



AIDA
ESTER ADABERTO


THE KING OF EGYPT
NATALE CERVI


AMNERIS
CAROLINA ZAWNER


RHADAMES
FLORENCIO CONSTANTINO


AMONASRO
ANGELO ANTOLA


RAMFIS
EMILIO SEASONA


A MESSENGER
LUCIANO ROSSINI


GEN. MUS. DIR.
GIUSEPPE ANGELINI





Saturday Afternoon, November 14th, at 2:00 o'clock
AT ODEON
TALES OF HOFFMAN
An Operatic Fantasy in Prologue, Three Acts and Epilogue, by Offenbach



HOFFMAN
SALVATORE SCIARETTI


OLYMPIA




EDVIGE VACCARI


ANTONIA



JULIETTA
MARY KAESTNER


A VOICE



NICLAUSSE



COPPELIUS




ANGELO ANTOLA


DAPETERTE



MIRACLE



CRESPEL
NATALE CERVI


NATHANIEL



COCHENILLE
LUCIANO ROSSINI


FRANZ



SPALANCANI
L. DELLEMOLLE


GEN. MUS. DIR.
GIUSEPPE ANGELINI





Saturday Evening, November 14th
Odeon Reserved for Another Event See Newspapers for Announcement of Special Performance



PRESS COMMENTS

Nothing more fortunate for our musical culture at this juncture can be imagined than the plan of the St. Louis Grand Opera Committee.  Opera for the People has the right ring.  Music must be brought to the masses if it is to endure as the first of the cultural arts.—
Richard Spamer, Globe-Democrat.


The Grand Opera Committee's announcement of the repertoire and casts for the Odeon season constitutes a dependable promise of genuinely worthy opera worthily presented.  The list of guest stars and principals of the San Carlo Company is undeniably attractive.  This is an inviting prospect.—
Ripley D. Saunders, Post-Dispatch.


A big city is measured by its population; a great city by its influence.  St. Louis is already a big city.  It is destined to be a great city, and its greatness will be founded upon its culture.  The art of music is one of the highest achievements of the human soul and no city or country can claim to be even with the world without it.
The Grand Opera Committee is in the arena as the champion of this great art.  It believes it represents the hope and ambition of this city and its fervent desire to become a great musical center.—

Homer Moore, Republic.


The St. Louis Times congratulates the Grand Opera Committee on the fine prospects for a tremendously successful opera season.
The Opera Committee has succeeded in bringing together a great organization that will give the best of grand opera at reasonable prices.  St. Louis followers of grand opera will secure a first class article at a much lower price than usual.—

Times.


The project of giving the best grand opera at reasonable prices with every indication of success, is likely to have value in the direction of placing St. Louis on the musical map right next to New York.—
Star.


We venture to predict that the opera season inaugurated at the Odeon, November 9th, will do more to popularize grand opera in our city than any of its predecessors.  A well balanced company of even merit will render a repertoire comprising some of the greatest music dramas ever written at a scale of prices enabling thousands to attend who heretofore had to deny themselves this pleasure.—
Westliche Post.


The selection by the Grand Opera Committee of a number of the older operas for production in St. Louis, in preference to some of the later compositions, is to be commended.  Many of the older works have stood the test of time and objective criticism, while their successors have, in many instances, not yet been subjected to other tests than that of transient popularity.—
Amerika.




SECOND WEEK

Monday Evening, November 16th, at 8:00 o'clock
AT ODEON
CARMEN
OPERA IN FOUR ACTS BY BIZET



CARMEN
GERVILLE-REACHE


DON JOSE
GIUSEPPE AGOSTINI


ESCAMILLO
ANGELO ANTOLA


DANCAIRO
NATALE CERVI


REMENDADO
LUCIANO ROSSINI


ZUNIGA
E. SESONA


MORALES
L. DELLEMOLLE


MICAELA
EDVIGE VACCARI


FRASQUITA
AMELIA SEDELMAYER


MERCEDES
CLARA HAASE


GEN. MUS. DIR.
GIUSEPPE ANGELINI





Tuesday Evening, November 17th, at 8:00 o'clock
AT ODEON
MASKED BALL
OPERA IN THREE ACTS BY VERDI



RICHARD
FAUSTO CASTELLANI


REINHART
A. MODESTI


AMELIA
ESTER ADABERTO


ULRICA
CAROLINA ZAWNER


OSCAR
EDVIGE VACCARI


SAMUEL
E. SESONA


TOM
NATALE CERVI


GEN. MUS. DIR.
GIUSEPPE ANGELINI





Tuesday Evening, November 17th, at 8:00 o'clock
AT ODEON
MASKED BALL
OPERA IN THREE ACTS BY VERDI



RICHARD
FAUSTO CASTELLANI


REINHART
A. MODESTI


AMELIA
ESTER ADABERTO


ULRICA
CAROLINA ZAWNER


OSCAR
EDVIGE VACCARI


SAMUEL
E. SESONA


TOM
NATALE CERVI


GEN. MUS. DIR.
GIUSEPPE ANGELINI





Wednesday Afternoon, November 18th, at 2:00 o'clock
AT ODEON
LA TRAVIATA (Camille)
OPERA IN THREE ACTS BY VERDI



VIOLETTA VALERY
REGINA VICARINO


FLORA
AMELIA SEDELMAYER


ANNINA
ANNETTE CHABOT


ALFREDO GERMONT
GIUSEPPE AGOSTINI


GIORGIO GERMONT
A. MODESTI


GASTONE
LUCIANO ROSSINI


BARON DOUPHOL
D. DELLEMOLLE


DOCTOR GRENVIL
NATALE CERVI


GEN. MUS. DIR.
GIUSEPPE ANGELINI





Wednesday Evening, November 18th, at 8:00 o'clock
AT ODEON
LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR
OPERA IN THREE ACTS BY DONIZETTI



HENRY ASHTON
ANGELO ANTOLA


LUCY
EDVIGE VACCARI


SIR EDGAR
SALVATORE SCIARETTI


LORD ARTHUR BUCKLAW
LUCIANO ROSSINI


RAYMOND
E. SESONA


ALICE
AMELIA SEDELMAYER


NORMAN
ANTONIO CETTI


GEN. MUS. DIR.
GIUSEPPE ANGELINI





Thursday Evening, November 19th
Odeon Reserved for Another Event—No Performance



Friday Evening, November 20th, at 8:00 o'clock
AT ODEON
IL TROVATORE
OPERA IN FOUR ACTS BY VERDI



LEONORA
ESTER ADABERTO


AZUCENA
GERVILLE-REACHE


INEZ
AMELIA SEDELMAYER


MANRICO
FAUSTO CASTELLANI


COUNT DI LUNA
ALESSANDRO MODESTI


FERRANDO
E. SESONA


RUIZ
L. ROSSINI


GEN. MUS. DIR.
GIUSEPPE ANGELINI





Saturday Afternoon, November 21st, at 2:00 o'clock
AT ODEON
MARTHA
OPERA IN FOUR ACTS BY FLOTOW



LADY HARRIET
EDVIGE VACCARI


NANCY
CAROLINA ZAWNER


LIONEL
SALVATORE SCIARETTI


PLUNKETT
ANGELO ANTOLA


SIR TRISTAN
NATALE CERVI


SHERIFF
PIETRO CANOVA


GEN. MUS. DIR.
GIUSEPPE ANGELINI



HARDMAN PIANO USED



Saturday Evening, November 21st, at 8:00 o'clock
Odeon Reserved for Another Event See Newspapers for Announcement of Special Performance



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MAIL ORDER FORM—SINGLE PERFORMANCES

ST. LOUIS GRAND OPERA COMMITTEE,
Care of National Bank of Commerce.

(SALE OPENS
MONDAY, NOV. 2)



Enclosed find check for $
for which reserve seats as follows:





No. of Seats

Write in Name of One or More Operas You Wish to Attend
Date of Performance



Seats at $2.00, for

Nov.



Seats at 1.50, for

Nov.



Seats at 1.00, for

Nov.



Seats at .50, for
(All Sold at Season Sale)
Nov.



Name

Address






SIGNOR FLORENCIO CONSTANTINO



MME. GERVILLE-REACHE



CHEVALIER GIUSEPPE ANGELINI



FIRST WEEK


MME. EDVIGE VACCARI



SIGNOR FAUSTO CASTELLANI



MME. REGINA VICARINO




SIGNOR ANGELO ANTOLA



MME. ESTER ADABERTO



SIGNOR ALESSANDRO MODESTI




MME. CAROLINA ZAWNER



SIGNOR SALVATORE SCIARETTI



MME. AMELIA SEDELMAYER





The Artists

SIGNOR FLORENCIO CONSTANTINO, Dramatic Tenor.
Formerly of Metropolitan and Boston Opera Companies; famed as Caruso's Only Rival.

MME. GERVILLE-REACHE, Contralto.
Formerly of Metropolitan and Boston Opera Companies.  The Singing Duse.

MME. EDVIGE VACCARI, Coloratura Soprano.
For two seasons leading prima donna National Grand Opera Company, Mexico City.  Termed by eminent critics The Second Tetrazzini.

MME. ESTER ADABERTO, Dramatic Soprano.
Formerly of Metropolitan and Covent Garden (London) Operas.

MME. REGINA VICARINO, Coloratura Soprano.
Acclaimed throughout Europe and America as one of the most capable artists in the world of song.  She performs wonderful gyrations in the third octave.

MME. CAROLINA ZAWNER, Mezzo Soprano.
One of Russia's fair queens of song from the Imperial Operas of Moscow and Petrograd.

SIGNOR SALVATORE SCIARETTI, Lyric Tenor.
Late of the Metropolitan Opera.  A young artist now standing in the operatic limelight as a singing actor of sensational attainments.

SIGNOR GIUSEPPE AGOSTINI, Dramatic Tenor.
Acknowledged one of the most versatile artists upon the opera stage.  Appeared with notable distinction at La Scala, Milan, and San Carlo, Naples.

SIGNOR FAUSTO CASTELLANI, Dramatic Tenor.
Famous throughout the opera world for his great impersonations of Canio, Manrico and Rhadames.  Prime favorite at the famous Theatre Colon, Buenos Ayres, and co-star of Battistini.

SIGNOR ALESSANDRO MODESTI, Baritone.
An artist who has covered himself with glory wherever he has sung.  Last season leading baritone with the Leoncavallo Grand Opera Company under the personal direction of the composer.

SIGNOR ANGELO ANTOLA, Baritone.
Distinguished throughout the domain of opera for his incomparable singing of the Pagliacci prologue and impersonation of the Tonio character.

CHEVALIER GIUSEPPE ANGELINI, General Musical Director.
Italy's celebrated Scoreless Maestro.  Famous throughout the world for his ability to conduct the masterworks of song without the aid of the score.  Former director Melba Opera Company.

MME. AMELIA SEDELMAYER, Dramatic Soprano
Favorite of Mascagni, and noted for her sweet, sympathetic voice and exquisite art of singing.




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