Music: Gatti’s Plans

The next Metropolitan season will be brilliant, according to details of Maestro Gatti-Casazza’s present plans.

These include Debussy’s magnum opus, Pelleas et Mélisande, in which Edward Johnson and Lucrezia Bori will probably be the principals. For Jeritza, there is also a German novelty, Jenufa, by Leos Janacek, Czecho-Slovakia. This opera, first heard in Prague in 1916, has since been performed in Vienna and Berlin.

The Italian novelty will be Montemezzi’s Giovanni Gallurese, an earlier work than the popular Amore dei Tre Re. The scene is laid in romantic Sardinia during the Spanish occupation in the 17th Century. First performed in 1905, at Turin, it is said to be very melodious and effective.

Revivals include Offenbach’s Tales of Hoffmann, silent since 1914, although its Barcarolle is familiar enough; Charpentier’s Louise; Verdi’s Falstaff with Antonio Scotti; and perhaps also Mozart’s Don Giovanni. Galli-Curci will probably make her much-heralded Manhattan debut in Dinorah, in which the Shadow Song can be depended upon to raise the audience from their seats.

Wagnerites will almost certainly be given Rheingold and Götterdámmerung. Rumored “new singers” are: Ralph Errole, tenor, Joan Ruth, soprano, and Marion Talley, soprano (TIME, April 14)—Americans all, as well as Signor Enzo Bozano, basso from Trentino.