The Russian Opera Company, reorganized and augmented both in personnel and in repertory, will come to the Casino Theatre, formerly the Earl Carroll, on Thursday night, February 1, for an extended scason of popular priced Russian opera.
This organization, which has recently returned from a tour of middle western and southern cities, now has two hundred members. There will be an orchestra of fifty-two musicians conducted by Eugene Plotnikoff, and a Russian ballet. A special feature of the company will be a chorus of sixty voices. The settings and costumes were made by Russian designers and craftsmen, including Yasha Anchutin and Vladimir Ivanov.
Among the prnicipal singers to appear with the company are Max Pantcleieff, Thalia Sabaneeva, soprano of the Metropolitan Opera Company; Ivan Ivantzoff, Edwina Eustis, Lola Monti-Gorsey, Oevora Nadvorny, Nadina Fedora, Michail Schvetz, Alexis Tcherkassky, Stefan Kozakevich, and Dimitri Criona.
The operas to be given during the season will include “Boris Godunoff” and “Khovanschina” by Moussorgsky, “Le Coq d’Or” and “Snegourotchka” by Rimsky-Korsakoff, the first performance in New York of “Iolanthe”, the last opera Tschaikowsky wrote. Also the same composer’s “Mazeppa”, “Pique Dame”, “Eugene Onegin”, and “Demon”.
The company is under the management of Alexander Basy. All productions will be sung in Russian and the whole staging and mise-en-scene will be carried out in the traditional Russian manner.
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