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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1108, 22 April 1911, Page 13

Puccini's "Madame Butterfly" had moro performances than any'opera m Germany during the season ending with September, 1910. It was sung 4.3 times. Bizet's "Carmen" came second, with 428, and D'.Albert's "Tiefland (which led last year) was third with 409. Strauss's "Elektra," which liaa 105 performances the preceding year, fell to Ga last year, while Salome tumbled from 85 to only 37. No wonder Strauss wanted to mako those managers who wanted his new opera sign a contract to repeat "Elektra and "Salome" each four times for ten years, and that the managers refused. Laurence Irving has just received a notification from the Lord Chamberlain's office that permission for the production of his version of Bneux s Les Trois Filles do M. Dupont" cannot bo granted save on his making certain changes, which, in his judgment, would utterly destroy its value. On the conclusion of the run of "The Unwritten Law" ho will, therefore, produce at tho Kingsway Bclasco's adaptation of Pierre Wolff and Gaston Leroux's "The Lily. Tho three princinal parts will bo played by Laurence Irving, Mabel Hackney, _and Geraldine Oliffe..