Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-04-14

EsGLIsa OPERA AT THE NArIoNAL.-Weneed
not remind our readers that tonight the Pyne
and Harrison Troupe commence their operate
season with Bellini's La Somnam5uia. From
our exchanges we clip some notices of the
powers and success Of different members of
this unrivalled troupe. An English critic,
speaking of the first appearance at Boulogne
of Miss Louisa Pyne as Am,ma in La Som.
asam6ufa, (the part she appears in tonight
says:
. Z" Her finished delineation drew down such
repeated rounds of applause, and such a tu-
mutt Of admiration, as almost to oyerpnwer
her The press teemed with her praises; and
it was echoed from every heart that Amin
could never die whilst Louisa Pyne lived
After this she was successfully engaged in
London, at the Princess's, Haymarket, and
Drury Lane theatres, and as the prima donna
OF English opera was everywhere and always
enthusiastically received. Nor must it be
forgotten that during the season of 1851 she,
on one occasion, with only a few hours no.
tiee, sang with unprecedented success the
scientific music of the g. Zauberfoat,' at the
Royal Italian Opera, in the presence of the
Queen and Prince Albert. In opera, in mis-
cellaneous concerts, and particularly at Wind
sor Castle and Buckingham Palace, where
royalty delighted to honor the meritorious,
Louisa Pyne is equally brilliant, equally sue
cit would be a long but not difficult task
to analyze those qualities which have insured
to their fair possessor the sovereignty Of the
vocal sphere. Her charming voice its won
drous fexibility, its sweetness, its warbling
purity, its rich and varied linton alton. and
the eonsummate mastery and skill with which
all these are employed, would suffice to work
an enduring fascination "
Mr.. Harrison comes to US with the credit Of
being, since the noontide of Brahsm' g glory,
the most successful of English tenors The
writer already quoted says:
He IS fairly entitled to lay claim to rare
union OF many striking essentials His enun-
citation Is perfect. A judicious writer re-
marked some years ago that he throws ex-
preston into each word he utters and while
his voice Is sufficiently flexible to achieve with
ease any ornamental cadences with which he
might choose to invest his songs, he prudently
relinquishes all this affectation for the far
more pleasing qualities Of grace and sweet
ness
As an actor we find him everywhere spoken
of as having acquired high reputation. He
was the original Thaddeus, in Balfe's popular
opera, {" The Bohemian Girl" in reference to
which the same critic says:
He contributed largely to the success of
the opera and to the composers fame. Balfe
may thank him for much Of the popularity of
When the Fair Land Of Poland and You'll
Remember Me- They are Harrison's songs.
No one but be ever sings them as they should
be sung.
"In 1851 be had a long and successful en-
gagement at the Hsymarket; after which he
returned to Drury Lane, where, as Elvino in
'Somnambula,' he more than justified the
warmest concentrations of his warmest
friends"
We have equally laudatory accounts of Mr.
stretton, the basso Of this troupe, not only in
the published critiques of the best writer's for
the press, but in private letters from the most
reliable Judges In his theatrical career he
mas been associated with Mrs Wood, Adelaide
himnle, Clara NovellO, Miss Romer, Miss
snirln' NJ me Garcia, &c, Wilson, Templeton,
Phillips, Staudgl, and other notable singer,