New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-04-28
1.-THE following article prepared for yesterdays Tribune vi
crowded By the California news
The Cpera.

Art in country has its memorable trumphs, which stand
in as bold relief TO mark its career as seges battles and
"golike ovations" do toward political history. Among
these trumphs place the Interpretation of Lucre'ia
Borgio in which all the parts high and low are entrusted
TO principals.
The saddest of the tunefu Nine should be the dramatic
Muse Music presupposes something besides the compost
ton And what is that The power of the artist gifted
with voce-a myseriously constructed arynx through
which the vital breath shall reverberate to produce
without iarrng a heaven breathing tone Besides this
there must be the intelligence to direct this sound and the
constitutional hea!thness undergo the atgues Of the
operate hstron AS all these subsidiary things rarely
found musico1rsmatic composition as general rule,
either mute what is worse, is caricatured The hear9
who yeans after the perfect, is constantly reminded
of the sad truth that the composer sacrificed on the
altar of medocy by those who know not what they do
Hence il Is fair TO assert that the dramatic muse is the mos
unfortunate of her fellows The painter and the sculptor
speak for themselves without intermediate agency but ns
composer Of the highest kind of music which we hold to
dramatic lin the way that we place Shaksperc above
Mlton entirely at the mercy OF the artists who render
him. This proposition is clear when we remember that a
night there were full thousand admirers Of Donzetts
genius because the whole force of excellent company
was thrown upon his music, and part sighted but the
music itself had been presented to the audience
simply read it may be questioned il half dozen presen
could have analysed il to presuppose prJphesy
the actual effect or if less ranscendental test that
singing the music badly indifeleny had been offered
we may infer that the composer would have been con
demned by almost universal accaination.
The composer-supposDg him. according to the ROches
ter knocking or H,mct theory be able to revisit tn,
earh-muS have been happy last night to find the tine
ether of his soul so ntermngd with the spirit of mun
tudc. Never have witnessed an Opera performed
a foreign language with greater enthusiasm II Is
masterpiece. From the first notes Of melancholy wabns
sliding into and joyous strains that TO hay'
been inspired by moonlight the Riato intensely l1
ian hey-to the brazen hunders where are initiated t
my ious choras of Paesrnaor the marble Commsndf
tore fMozarts Don Giovanni identifies by the waythoui
criticism has probed the factthe opera is beautia-
passionate appropriate
The performance of Madame de Vres was so much al
mred that besides paudits, she was called 'nrr
times before the curtain along with the o'her ar
lists In the magnificent trio Salyi was hrst Oh M
first The peculiarly Of modern t'his century ""
ting for the voice, makes an unDfoKeh oecI'''a"0
during the equivalent OF sixteen or more Ihes oi poeF
parallel to what Cicero calls the looming oil The Draw
This prandose art was almost OF quite unknown 10 oa
composers who cut up their dscourses IN DTS dai's
between the orchestra and ths voice 80 uaI su''h"
yolrninous periods were seldom met with. We beg ~
r Tho reader for this technical discussion, but there
- ,,ob random generalization wholesale sla'has
ZINC modern composers, who will have fnek y"
4 ~. II
,a rte Of critics that little analysis bordering on w
o.or;c NAV not be wasted now and then This coninup
!. splenddly exhibited in the trio in question lnsi
IN sc Donizetti ia Instrumentation il may be addel
,;o,,orlv ey denced in this THO Mark the groaH OF
rot.,ra while the terribly subdued dialogue OF the PnH
rals is going on We could instance five hundred ~.
lrcfestrsl beauties if the limits of our hurried nO''s
| ,,it,ed such mosaic ike particularly a,
Mini Beneyentano and the others Ill connoued~
.nocess Of ,he piece Alboni surely never was mo-
home Heaven did not design her for tragedy She lOo
like Bacchus last nght-Drydens description gUm Sd
aSan The poison operated well in the shape OF ihe D"
aean doreg with luscious beauty, and with D Hps
a's, rem 81 ch was hung the admiration OF over w
' S"o d spectators during twenty second; at
Notwithstanding according to the ordinary cc nuni.oOassI
Gro1 - ,I md Of her last strophe she WAS obliged
recuperste and 10 it over again Audience are not away
logical III
Doubtless this opera viii be repeated MSny m"" H''