The Theatre (September 1907)

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Art Stores and Dealers supplied by HE ANDERSON PUBLISHING CO., Address PUCK, New York, 32 Union Square, New York. 299-311 Lafayette Street eS Mme. Nordica’s Plan for an American Bayreuth Copyright Aimé Dupont LILLIAN NORDICA Lillian Nordica, the well-known opera singer, recently announced her intention to erect on the banks of the Hudson an American Bayreuth. The prima donna has purchased a site of twenty acres near Croton-on-the-Hudson, and with part of her large fortune will put up a building to be known as the Lillian Nordica Festival House. The opera house, it is promised, will be ready for its formal dedication one year from next summer. The slope of the land is such as to afford a natural amphitheatre with a seating capacity for 5,000 persons. It wil! be so constructed that in fine weather the roof can be thrown back and the performance given in the open air. The theatre will be modeled on the plan of Wagner’s theatre at Bayreuth, an account of which will be found on page 244 of this issue. The prices will be low with the exception of twenty-five expensive boxes, which will be rented in the same manner as those of the Metropolitan Opera House. The production of Wagner’s operas in English and in German is but a part of the great scheme planned by the prima donna. She will erect an American institute of music where, “taught by the foremost teachers in the world, American young women and men who aspire to win operatic honors will be taught every branch of music and given a musical education as complete and excellent and with vastly less expense than they can now hope to get abroad.” “I know,” the singer admitted in an interview with the New York Herald, “that my singing days are numbered. This is my only ambition now. I want to see American girls with voices properly started. I want to save them, as far as possible, from the terrible fate that overtakes so many of them who come to Europe to study and then pass out of sight. The whole scheme is a matter of patriotism with me and the realization of an ambition I have cherished for years.” To quote further: “Call my object philanthropic or what you may, but the idea of founding here in my own country an American Bayreuth has been my life’s ambition. All the years I have been singing I have dreamed of such an institution. Now I am able financially to start this great project, which I know will be an institution which after I am dead will continue to grow and enlighten the people of this country, who are now awakening to the benefits to be derived from a musical education such as was not dreamed of ten years ago. “Here in America young women and men save their earnings and then rush to Europe to take up musical study. Thousands go every year. Some succeed, others fail. 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