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, A le andro Dolci, and Giacomo Rimini. The librettists are Me rs. 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 Oberwe el. When the faithle 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.