The Funeral of Luca Botta.

In Panel on Left: Giulio Gatti-Casazza and Alfred Seligsberg; in Large Panel (Entering the Church), from Left to Right: F. C. Coppicus, Giuseppe De Luca, Dr. H. H. Curtis, Léon Rothier, Fernando Carpi, Giulio Setti, Alfred Seligsberg, Francesco Romei, Giulio Crimi and Gianni Viafora.

Deeply impressive were the funeral services of Luca Botta, late tenor the Metropolitan Opera Company, on Wednesday morning, October 3, in the funeral Church at Broadway and Sixtyth Street. After the service at the eneral Church a second service was |d at St. Patrick's Cathedral. The |ly was taken to Woodlawn Cemetery | temporary keeping until it can be |it to Italy for interment. Sing “Mors et Vita.” Representatives of the directors of the Metropolitan Company, Mr. Botta's associates among the singers, and many acquaintances crowded the , Funeral urch for the initial service, which con|ted chiefly of singing by the chorus of opera company. The pieces, under L. direction of Giulio Setti, master of Metropolitan chorus, consisted of rts of Gounod's oratorio, “Mors et ta.” Pasquale Amato, the noted Metropolitan baritone, paid a personal tribute to the singer on behalf of his assotes. Numerous floral offerings were _hked about the coffin. - At the Cathedral solemn high mass of _{uiem was sung, with the Rev. John M. Quinn as celebrant, the Rev. Bernard £ as deacon, the Rev. Henry F. l"mmer as sub-deacon and the Rev. William B. Martin as master of ceremonies. #: cathedral choir, under the direction J. C. Ungerer, organist and choirster, sang Father Perosi's Requiem. The pallbearers were Messrs. Amato, £pg: De Luca, Léon Rothier, Antonio Scotti, Francesco Romei, Giulio. New Yorkers held the gifted lyric tenor was seen at the Funeral Chapel. An aged man, seated near the bier, was visibly affected by the services. He later remarked to his neighbor, Miss Dillia dramatic soprano who had sung frequently with Botta in Italy — that he has attended the Metropolitan regularly for twenty-five years and in all that period Botta's voice was one of the most appealing tenors that he had heard on the great stage. Grateful for the pleasure that the tenor's singing had afforded him, this operatic devotee was impelled to pay his tribute at the artist’s bier.

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