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= WINNETKA WEEKLY TALK, SATURDAY, MAY 30, 1925 17 RAVINIA OPERA OPENS JUNE 27 Entire Repertoire Completed for Current Season of Operas and Concerts MANY STARS RETURN Unusual Variety Promised in Season's Program Preparations are now well under way for what gives promise of being the greatest season of Ravinia opera and concerts over presented at that north shore music shrine. After months of preliminary work, Louis Eckstein has engaged his artists for the com- ing season, which is to open June 27, and has outlined a repertoire of operas which could not be surpassed at any of the world's great opera houses. Ra- vinia has long held rank as one of the three great opera houses of Ameri- ca, and it has focused the attention of the entire musical world on the north shore. There is every indica- tion that this year it will attract larger crowds, not of north shore people alone, but from the entire Chicago district, than in any season past, and as in other years, there will likewise be hundreds of visitors from all the music centers of the United States. Many Artists Reengaged Most of the artists who helped to make the season of 1924 memorable have been reengaged for the present season, and in addition to these, Mr. Eckstein has placed under contract a number of artists who, although they have been heard at Ravinia in seasons past, have not appeared there for sev- eral years, and others who will sing at Ravinia for the first time. The com- plete list of artists follows: in alpha- betical arrangement: Sopranos: Lucrezia Bori, Helen Freund, Margery Maxwell, Rosa Raisa, Marie Sundelius. Mczzo-;opranos and contraltos: Merle Alcock, Ina Bourskaya, Anna Correnti, Philine Falco, Ada Paggi. Tenors: Mario Chamlee, Giovanni Martinelli, Giordano Paltrinieri, Tito Schipa, Armand Tokatyan. Baritones: Mario Basiola, D'Angelo, Giuseppe Danise, Defrere, Giacomo Rimini. Bassos : Paolo Ananian, Virgilio Laz- zari, [Leon Rothier, Vittorio Trevisan. 'Notable Conductors Conductors : Louis Hasselmans, Gen- naro Papi, Wilfrid Pelletier, Giacomo Spadoni. Eric Del.aMarter, concert conductor; Armando Agnini, stage di- rector. The repertoire will be unusually broad including not only those stand- ard works, which form the back bone of every opera season, but also some notable revivals of works which have not been given for several years past and the presentation of other works which are entirely new to the Ravinia list. Some of these, although popular in Europe, are seldom brought to per- formance in this country. The entire repertoire follows: *Martha", *La leria Rusticana", Louis Desire Traviata", = "Caval- "Rigoletto", "Aida", "Mignon", "Lucia", "Tales of Hoff- man", "Carmen", "I Pagliacci", "Ma- dame Butterfly", "Faust", "La Tosca", "The Jewels of the Madonna", "La Boheme", "The Secret of Suzanne", "Manon" (Massenet), "Romeo and Juliet", "Il Trovatore", "The Barber of Seville", "Fedora", "L'Amico Fritz", "I.e Chemineau", "Samson and Delila", "Fra Diavolo", "Andrea Chenier", "Manon Lescaut" (Puccini), "Masked Ball" and "The Jewess." Promise Wide Variety In choosing his artists this year, Mr. Eckstein kept in mind the policy in- augurated several seasons ago of hav- ing several artists on the roster capable of singing the same role. This gives the opportunity for variety in the cast- ing of repeat performances, a matter which is highly pleasing to all dis- criminating opera patrons who know that the same opera may take on many different shades of meaning when sung by different artists. Since all the principals engaged for Ravinia are art- ists of world-wide reputation, they will offer splendid studies in interpreta- tive technique as they are heard in the various parts assigned them. Elect Fred G. Harbaugh to College Honor Frat Alpha Zota, honorary agricultural fraternity at Iowa State college, has elected Fred G. Harbaugh of Wilmette and 17 junior and senior students to membership at a recent meeting. Mem- bership in this organization is limited to those who are in the upper two- fifths of the class in scholarship, and consideration is also taken of activ- ities, leadership and personality. Kenilworth Children in Annual Field Contests Pupils of the Joseph C. Sears school at Kenilworth held their annual field day last Friday afternoon, under the direction of Robert Townley, director of physical training at the school. More than 200 prizes in the form of ribbons and .badges were awarded winners of various events. The boys and the girls each were divided into two teams--the Blues and the Reds-- which held a tug-of-war as the final event of the program. The winners were the boys' Blue team and the girls' Red team. According to Mr. | Townley, individual stars of the meet were Margery Thorsen, Eunice Wil- son, Marguerite Kerr and Jane Ly- tell, and Albert Richards, George Saxon, Robert Hutchens and George Scott. Richards broke the shot-put record for the school by throwing a distance of 32 feet, six inches. Hut- chens and Scott broke the high jump record. : The Northmoor Gelf Club is formal- ly opening its summer social season with a dinner-dance on the evening of Decoration day. 726 Elm St. "The Home of the Well Groomed Car" WASH~-- --~DAY Is not a pieasant day if you have to do it your- self, but if you have us do it for you, it will be pleasant to you to see what can be done in a garage especially equipped to do a first- class job. Of course, we refer to your Auto- mobile. 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