The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-11-10


RE-opESNe OF THE OrERA-It is officially
announced that the Academy will open this,
evening under the La Grange management, for
an operate season of six weeks. 1t is further
stated that Max Maretzek-the quarrel with
the stockholders not having been compromised
will not conduct the orchestra but that the place
he has go long and SO well filed will be tempora-
rily occupied by Mr.. Kreutzer. This affair is the
result of some lively skirmishing in the papers
and elsewhere, in which Maretzek aud the Direc-
tors have made some jokes about each other, much
to the amusement Of the public. This fun was
all very well during the recess of the Opera, but
now that it will apparently be very serious
deprivation to the public. it becomes a matter Of
grave consequence. There can be no question
that the proper course to pursue uuder such cir
cumstances would be to cast all these old matters
aside-to leave joking andpoking fun-and go to-
work at something more practical and business like.
Sensible men always do So but nincompoops
generally pick up such jokes, twist them and
turn them, and re-hash them, drawing interences
and deducing conclusions never dreamed Of
before, until the result of light word or Two, is
important and disastrous to all parties.
The coup detat of Max Maretzek in securing
lease of the Academy Of Music and then for
sundry weghty reasons, throwing it back upon
the owners in his celebrated speech before the
curtain, has reached this point in its natural
history The farce at which the town laughed
has become serious drama, over which the
town is sad. Sensible peepeswant the Opera
with all its excellencies-wth its ablest expo
nents in every department and without any Of
the humbug quarrels engendered behind the
scenes, and fostered by haJitues of the oyster
cellars In the progress of the ridiculous imbro-
Clio between Max Maretzek and the stockholders
we have reached the point where the public de-
mands good Opera in every sense of the word,
with no further nonsense about negotiations,
quarrels, apologies, speeches and personal allu-
sions, on either side. Mr.. Phalen is very sensi-
BILE, discreet business man, but he made a mis-
take when he condescended to reply to the i'm
pertinent nonsense of number of small musical
critics. If Maretzek is man of sense, and has
also made mistake, he will not decline to make
a suitable acknowledgment Of his error. Ii the
proprietors and managers Of the Academy Of
Music are men of sense, they never will ask for
any apology for hasty remark made under ex-
citing circumstances. Both Maretzek and the
managers may rest assured that no one cares for
their personal quarrels; and as such matters are
only Of consequence when they excite public in
terest or win public sympathy for one side or
the other, we presume that the present
matter will be settled. At any rate all that
we desire is a good Opera, without any more
nonsense from anybody. and we hope that all
parties will come to the conclusion to bury the
Ratchet, and work together for the consummation
Of this desirable result The man who has been
the greatest sufferer by the whole affair is poor
Mr.. Ullman, who has been assailed and beaten by
some cowardly fiend, who should be at once Gagged
and punished to the full extent of the law.