MUSIC.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1800, 12 July 1913, Page 9

MUSIC.

ruv TnEBLE CLEF.I The Quinlan Repertoire. Tho interest being taken in tho forthcoming visit of the Quinlan Opera. Company, which opens at Her Majesty's, Melbourne, 011 Saturday, August 10, is indicated by tho fact that the J. C. Williamson management has already received a number of applications for seats. Attractive ns tho repertoire was when tho company last appeared in Australia, it will be even more no during tho coming season, for additions havo been made to the list, some of these comprising operas which havo not yet been produced in Australia. These include "The Meister-singc-rs," which will be the opera for tho opening night. Charpentier s "Louise" and "Ring of tho Nibelungen" wilL bo presented for the first time in its entirety in Australia. Hero is tho .repertoire:— "Tho Meistersingers," "Lohengrin," "Tristan and Isolde," l'lie Flying Dutchman," "Manon Lescant," "Madame Butterfly," "La Tosca," "La Bolieine," "Tho Girl of tho Goldsn West/ "Aida," "La Traviatn," "Rigoletto," "II Trovatore," "Samson and Delilah," "Carmen," "Faust," "Louise," "Tho Marriage of Figaro," "The Prodigal Son," "Tales of Hoffmann," nnd "The Ring- of tho Nibelung," comprising "Rhinegold," "Valkyrie," ."Siegfried," and "Gotterdajnmerung." At Covent Garden. . At tho end of a great week at Covent Garden, a revival last week of "Aida," with Caruso as.Rad.mies, Miss Emmy Destinn in the tiUo role, Madams Kirkby Lunn as Amneris, and Scotti as Amonnsro, .sot the seal upon a series of memorable performances. . AH the artists named are singers of greit distinction; and th:? London "Daily ' Telegraph," commenting upon this circumstance, points out that tho evening's performance took the memory back through tho years to tho day ( when such brilliancy was no unusual (thing. "But times have changed," the writer continues.- '"Where are the singers of thoso days that are gone? Many of them are no longer singing, but their places still remain to be filled, for till? world does not produce Melbas and Carusos to follow automatically an their predecessors' footsteps. Wo have heard on this occasion a cast that could hardly have been equalltd a decade ago, and even then only by those singers who now took part in the revival." Tho new conductor at' Covent Garden, Signor Polacco, from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York, seems to b? a very fine man, possessing a. strong sense of rhythm and a masterful control of singers and orchestra.