Chapter CLXIX: Act III: Crispino, overbearing since his good fortune, has built a

fine house. He ignores former friends and even is unkind to _Annetta_. He even berates the _Fairy_. Suddenly he is in a cavern. The _Fairy's_ head has turned into a skull. She has become Death. Humbled, he begs for another glimpse of _Annetta_ and the children. He awakes to find himself with them and to hear a joyous song from _Annetta_.

LORELEY

Alfred Catalani's "Loreley" was presented by the Chicago Opera Company for the first time in New York, at the Lexington Theatre, on Thursday evening, February 13, 1919, with Anna Fitziu, Florence Macbeth, Virgilio Lazzari, Alessandro Dolci, and Giacomo Rimini. The librettists are Messrs. D'Ormeville and Zanardini.

The legendary siren who sits combing her hair on a rock in the traditional manner, is in this opera the reincarnated spirit of a young orphan, who has been jilted by her fiancé, _Walter_, Lord of Oberwessel. When the faithless young man is about to marry another beautiful maiden, _Anna_, _Loreley_ casts her spell upon him, and _Anna_, too, is thrown over. _Walter_ follows _Loreley_ to a watery grave, and _Anna_ dies of grief.

FEDORA

Opera in three acts, by Umberto Giordano; text, after the
Sardou drama, by Colautti. Produced, Milan, 1898.

CHARACTERS

PRINCESS FEDORA _Soprano_
COUNT LORIS _Tenor_
COUNTESS OLGA _Soprano_
DE SIRIEX, a diplomat _Baritone_
GRECH, a police officer _Bass_
DMITRI, a groom _Contralto_
CYRIL, a coachman _Baritone_
BOROV, a doctor _Baritone_
BARON ROUVEL _Baritone_

_Time_--Present.

_Place_--Paris and Switzerland.

Act I. Home of _Count Vladimir_, St. Petersburg. While the beautiful _Princess Fedora_ awaits the coming of her betrothed, _Count Vladimir_, he is brought in, by _De Siriex_, mortally wounded. Suspicion for the murder falls upon _Count Loris_. _Fedora_ takes a Byzantine jewelled cross from her breast and swears by it to avenge her betrothed.

Act II. Salon of _Fedora_ in Paris. _Loris_ is entertained by her. She uses all her arts of fascination in hope of securing proof of his guilt. He falls desperately in love with her, and she succeeds in drawing from him a confession of the murder. _Grech_, a police officer, plans to take _Loris_ after all the guests have left. Then, however, _Loris_ tells her further that he killed the _Count_ because he betrayed his young wife and brought about her untimely death. _Fedora_, who herself has fallen in love with _Loris_, now takes him into her arms. But the trap is ready to be sprung. She is, however, able to escape with him.