Season of Grand Opera April 2, 3 and 4, 1914 . CHICAGO GRAND OPERA COMPANY CLEOFONTE CAMPANINI General Director  BERNHARD ULRICH Business Manager  ORPHEUM THEATRE Portland, Oregon MASON & HAMLIN PIANO USED BUSHONG & CO. PRINTERS IN APPRECIATION We take this means of publicly thanking our guarantors, the men and women of Portland, who unselfishly came forward with no expectation of private reward, and generously advanced the thousands of dollars that were necessary to guarantee the performance of the Chicago Company and give to Portland this season of Grand Opera. Fred. W. Vincent, E. S. Lister. GUARANTORS Maud Ainsworlh W. C. Bristol J. Bowerman Jonathan Bourne, Jr. Benson Hotel John H. Burgard E. R. Corbel! I lenry L. Corbett William A. Carter Edward Cookingham Franklin T. Griffith Rodney L. Glisan Josephine Hirsch G. H. Kaufmann James B. Kerr L. A. Lewis Roderick L. Macleay Gus C. Moser Dr. K. A. J. MacKenzie lohn Manning Meier & Frank Milton A. Miller Adam Mueller J. P. O'Brien J. 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Privacy in selecting your Victrola and listening to the records you wish to hear, courtesy and intelligence in your service, promptness and a most complete stock of all Victor products. Victrolas $15.00 to $200.00 Terms if desired The Wiley B. Allen co. ESTABLISHED 1873 Morrison Street at Broadway OTHER STORES: San Francisco, Oakland, Sacramento, San Jose, Fresno, Los Angeles, San Diego, Cal.;  Reno, Nevada;  Phoenix, Ariz., and other western cities. Thursday Evening, April 2, at 8 P. M. CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA (In Italian) Opera in One Act by Mascagni Santuzza.......................................Rosa Raisa Lola..........................................Ruby Heyl Turiddu.................................Aristodemo Giorgini Alfio....................................Francesco Federici Lucia....................................... .Louise Berat Conductor..................................Giuseppe Sturani SYNOPSIS OF SCENERY This scene represents a village in Sicily. On the left the inn, and dwelling of Lucia; on the right a church; Easter Morning. Followed by PAGLIACCI (In Italian) Opera in Two Acts by Leoncavallo Nedda.................................Jane Osborn-Hannah Canio.......................................Amedeo Bassi Tonio.........................................Titta Ruffo Silvio......................................Armand Crabbe Beppe.....................................Emilio Venturini Conductor...............................Cleofonte Campanini SYNOPSIS OF SCENERY A village in Calabria, showing a small theatre that has been erected for a band of strolling players. Friday Evening, April 3, beginning at 7 p. m. PARSIFAL (In German) Richard Wagner's Consecrational Festival Play Amfortas.................................Clarence Whitehill Titurel........................................Henri Scott Gurnemanz..................................Allen Hinckley Parsifal.......................................Otto Marak Klingsor...................................Hector Dufranne Kundry..............................Minnie Saltzman-Stevens A Voice.......................................Ruby Heyl First Knight of the Grail.........................Desire Defrere Second Knight of the Grail....................Constantin Nicolay First Esquire................................Beatrice Wheeler Second Esquire..................................Ruby Heyl Third Esquire..............................Edmond Warnery Fourth Esquire...........................Stanislaus Grundgand Klingsor's Flower Maidens...................Minnie Egener Helen Warrum Amy Evans Rosa Raisa Lillian Gresham Beatrice Wheeler And a chorus of 24 other flower maidens, the brotherhood of the Knights of the Grail and Esquires Conductor...............................Cleofonte Campanini SYNOPSIS OF SCENERY ACT     I.    Scene 1—A Forest near a Lake. Transformation. Scene 2—The Temple of the Grail. ACT   II.    Scene 1—Klingsor's Enchanted Castle. Scene 2—Klingsor's Gardens. ACT III.    Scene 1—A Landscape near the Temple of the Grail. Transformation. Scene 2—Temple of the Grail. There will be an intermission from 8:30 to 9 o'clock to accommodate late arrivals. Saturday Afternoon, April 4, at 2 P. M. AIDA (In Italian) Opera in Four Acts by Verdi The King................................Gustave Huberdeau Amneris .....................................Julia Claussen Aida......................................Carolina White Radames.....................................Amedeo Bassi Ramfis ........................................Henri Scott Amonasro ..................................Giovanni Polese Messenger..................................Emilio Venturini Priestess ..................................Mabel Riegelman Incidental Dances by Rosina Galli and the Corps de Ballet Conductor...............................Cleofonte Campanini SYNOPSIS OF SCENERY ACT     I.    Scene 1—The King's Palace at Memphis. Scene 2—The Temple of Vulcan at Memphis. ACT   II.    Scene 1—A Hall in the Apartments of Amneris. Scene 2—Before a Gate of the City of Thebes. ACT III.    On the Banks of the Nile, with Temple of Isis. ACT IV.    Scene 1 —Hall in the King's Palace. Scene 2—Temple of Vulcan; the Crypt. Saturday Evening, April 4, at 8 P. M. TOSCA (In Italian) Opera in Three Acts by Puccini Floria Tosca..................................Mary Garden Mario Cavaradossi...........................Leon Campagnola Barone Scarpia...............................Giovanni Polese Cesare Angelotti............................Constantin Nicolay II Sagrestano................................Vittorio Trevisan Spoletta....................................Emilio Venturini Sciarrone....................................Nicolo Fossetta Un Carceriere.................................Frank Preisch Un Pastore..................................Minnie Egener Conductor...............................Cleofonte Campanini SYNOPSIS OF SCENERY ACT     I.—Interior of the Church of St. Andrea Delia Valle, Rome. ACT   II.—Scarpia's Room in the Palazzo Farnese, Rome. ACT III.—Platform of the Castle of St. Angelo, Rome. 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