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PLAN SEASON OF GERMAN GRAND OPERA Announced a brilliant season of German Grand Opéra for Philadelphia was made on Thursday of last wee at a luncheon in the Benjamin Fr Hotel, attended by music lovers and so cial leaders when 8. Hurock, the noted impresario and managing director of the German Opera Company of Amer ica, described his plans for bringing here the finest voices and dramatic talent that can be gathered for Wag nerian and other music dramas. The season will begin on January 11 with a matinee performance at the Metropolitania House which will be the home of the company. “Flying pitagene: ” will be presented that ni ne scenery for all these operas has been ordered from Theatre Kunstener behaus, Berlin, the first of its kind in Europe. All stage lighting apparatus comes from Berlin, while new costumes are being made there, too of ees is the engagement of Kurt Albrecht as stage director, who for many years was —— of Berlin, as of the former Royal Ope well as other operas in G cement. Mr. Hurock has just returned from abroad, where he made contracts for the appearance of a notable group of artists, and the following: Jo hanna Gadski, Juliette Lipps, Sonia Sharnova, Hildegard Bartz, were Reader, Edna Zahm, Karl E demar Henke. She ae” wi eee ee ee eats Taste Me Me orn, Ira bel Ritch and Ruth Mel Tivain.
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Philadelphia Jewish Exponent
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US
Fri, Oct 18, 1929
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