D'Alverez Irene. . . . . . . . . . . . . M. Dufranne Cesaire Gaussin. M. Huberdeau La Borderie. M. Leroux Innkeeper. M. Villa Musical Director M. Henriquez de la Fuente.
New operas succeed one another in the lyric theatres of New York almost as the night the day.
It was the third opera of Massenet to be performed in New York within ten days, two of which were new to this country, and the third, almost the same as new. Massenet's name has been found a good one to conjure with in the new state that has been brought about lately in operatic affairs. It did not seem, however, as if the spell was likely to be exerted by this latest specimen of the adept French master's handicraft, although the opera had the advantage of Miss Garden's popularity in the heroine's part, and the cast was otherwise a good one, with Mr. Dalmores and Mr. Dufranne in the chief men's parts. Massenet's muse, as there has been recent occasion to remark, is docile and tractable. She goes wherever he finds it advisable to lead her.