ARRANGEMENTS FOR "SIEGFRIED"

Arrangements have been completed for the staging of the production of Wagner's "Siegfried" which is to be presented by an all-star cast in the Stadium on Friday evening, June 4. The plans have been prepared by Mr. Loomis Taylor of the Metropolitan Opera House, New York, who is the general stage director for the production, and by Mr. Samuel Kronberg, the general manager of the festival. The exterior work at the Stadium, such as the wiring and other general preparations, will be started within a week, and the building of the stage will begin immediately after the presentation of the Greek plays on May 18 and 19.

In order to build the stage it will be necessary to eliminate 10 sections of the Stadium or the equivalent of 6,000 seats. This distance is 175 feet in length and will be taken from the open end of the Stadium. The stage itself will be over 150 feet long with a depth of 75 feet, a proscenium opening of 100 feet, and an apron of 5 feet.

The building of the sounding boards in order to obtain the perfect and correct acoustics of the open air stage has been planned under the direction of skilled engineers. The boards will be made of a compressed licorice root which is imported form Turkey. The larger board will cover the entire front of the stage and will be 20 feet inside the stage lines with a five foot front extension. A smaller board for orchestral effects will cover half the orchestra pit, which will be 85 feet long by 20 feet wide. In order to protect these boards and the other permanent stage fixtures a large water-proof and fireproof awning has been devised in addition to the regular roof of the stage.

The stage elevation will be 6 1-2 feet from the ground, and the boxes will have a grade of 6 feet from the front rows to the last. Each box will have its own private entrance. There will be a promenade all the way around the Stadium of 25 feet, and in the rear of the boxes there will be a rendezvous of area 150 feet long by 100 feet wide.

In order to provide for the large number of out-of-town guests who will be present, it has been decided to serve a supper in the Baseball Cage on the evening of the performance. Arrangements have been completed with a large catering concern in Boston for looking after this end. There will also be an intermission of thirty minutes for refreshments between the second and third acts.

The entire seating capacity, exclusive of the boxes, and inclusive of some seats in the colonnade will be about 20,000. Of this large number of seats over two-thirds have already been sold, bringing in a total return of nearly $40,000, and many of these orders have come from distant parts of the country. The remaining seats may be obtained at prices ranging from $3.00 to $1.50 upon application to M. Steinert and Sons Co., 162 Boylston street, Boston.