Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 September 1916 — BOSTON GRAND OPERA COMPANY IN CENTENNIAL FESTIVAL [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

BOSTON GRAND OPERA COMPANY IN CENTENNIAL FESTIVAL

(Photos of Boston Grandopera Artists—Top Row, left to right:. Phyllis Peralta, Giovanni Zenatello, Thomas Chalmers, Riccardo Martin, Dorothy Fol!is. Center row, left to right: Mabel Riegelman, Tamaki Miura, Maria Gay, Luisa Villani. Lower row, left to right: Elvira Leveroni, Giorgio Puliti, Max Rabinoff, director; Paolo Ananian, Fely Clement.) Big Company With Ballet and Orchestra at Indianapolis, Oct 13-15.

The great musical festival of the Indiana centennial year is to be given by the Boston Grand Opera Co. in connection with the two weeks’ statehood jubilee .that is to be held in Indianapolis, beginning Oct. 2. The Boston company, with twenty or more of the world’s great singing stars, a chorus and ballet of 100 dnd an orchestra of 60, together with full equipment of costumes and scenery, is to give three operas—“ Andrea Chenier” Giordano’s

opera of the French revolution; Mascagni’s nrilliant Japanese opera, “Iris,” and “Faust,” with the wonderful Walpurgis night ballet. On Oct. 15, the grand finale of all the Hoosier centennial celebrations, close when the entire Boston Co. and the combined singing societies •of Indianapolis, making a chorus of 800 voices, will sing Y r erdi’s oratorio, “Requiem” at the state colliseum, giving the “Requiem” on the greatest scale that has ever marked it

in America. The three operas will be given in very sumptuous manner, the complete ballet Russe appearing in each. In “Iris” the title role will be taken by Tamaki Miura, the celebrated Japanese prima donna. The operas are to be given Oct. 13 arid 14, with matrnee, at Murat theater. All the artists in the photograph will be under the direction of the Centennial Celebration Committee, which has headquarters at 40 South Pennsylvania street.