New-York daily tribune., 1858-02-22
MUSICAL fETELL[GEKCE.
ACADEMY OF MUSIC.

having been served there ou 0r-nights 90 oTnirh.s
ard on Qg:days by candle light, rot coantiug con.
cets epd other inventions The manager, hayirc
given the Friends mucd Of sweetaes as ther orho-
dor siomachs would bear embarked one bright morn
inc-stock. flute and fiddle, prma dcnnss, laytogs.
full choristers, Anschutz, tsnors bases ani
double basses-for Baltimore and made Holiday Tsa-
ne. retcho with saocharine meiauousness-yea, even
I'D TO such sorgvs ektent that the ourIas there are
calling out for an opera-hoase They ssy, Look 81
4" Be ston there She stands look at Ney-
Z" York, there she stands and lock at PhiladeI-
delpha, there sHE stands ami then look at BALI
:" more, and there she doesn't stand, because she
has no opera-hOuse. II Is welt to cry out before
hand. But We imagine that tie building Of al opera
house in Baltimore is not imme iiately impending
The coming event, however can be expedited by not
attempting to build large lyrical edice that OF
this city. 1t is possible for Baltimore to have beau
tifu opera a-house, & little more extensive than Laura
Keenes Theatef, ard find it all the conManity ueeIa
for a long time TO come. Fas cst, etc.
1.-THE PuIitans," TO be given to-nigh, b. Le-
grange. Tberp Gas-ier and Formes, was the last
work Of Belni. II was composed about twenty years
ago for Gris Rubin. Tamburini, and Labache. Then
the most asute elegant and cosmopolitan audience OF
Paris was written for and the composer had just time
TO witness his triumph and die. lie siezsd with q
fever and his last words were: Il" q my father; my
brothers," and thinking OF his dulcet hcme in Sicily he
went to bis other home, where his music must be ap
precated Before Be,ni', death. his music had a.
ready been introduced into this country and created
uneauaed sensation. His Pirate" was brought out
about the year lxS. By the Monressor troupe, which
Mr. Duponte WHO wrote the texts for Mozart operas
fos halt a century befoiei engineered" into public
favor and private subscriptions. Against the Pirate
OF Bellni the Ote,o" OF RO-siH pitted by the
manager and failed to draw. Montres.or a
great but not entirely fresh, Italian tenor singer
and one OF the most passionate of artists. His
performance Of the starved. hunted, and wrecked
nobeman, Walter, was something the public s!ezed
hold of BY accamation and from that moment Beilins
name became household word. Subsequently, Mrs
Wood the great English soprano, introduced the Son
nambua execraby tlauslated-and it was considered
that her performance of the finale to the second act
the chamber scene--was fuller of abandonment than
even Malibrans performance Of the same in London
We imagine now that have enthu sastic audiences
in music; but twenty years ago. Mrs. Wood drew
mole tears than ever Rachel did, and excited her audi
ence to an unsurpassed degree. Then Belini became
a. well known 10 the frAaneners nf England 40 he
had been to those Of Italian opera. The passionate,
declamNory style of music, the basis for operate
pres-ion in contradstinction to the undevatingy ford
style of Rossni which reigned in Europe from 1915 to
1877 -S-the first year of Beiui-had now been estab
lshed this country and the musical taste has renamed
unchanged from the year 1882 to 1857. The beauty of
Italian melodies, and the unquestioned superiority OF
that school of singing the triumph OF the Italian
opera, despite the frequent misplaced style of music
and the often deficient Characterization which mars
~. Il,,ta audi will mar ava
thing but musical dulness, and the final solo Of Ed
gardo in "Lucia will command the achrymose adm
ration of sympathetic people of the age of youth and
love- even though there be dancing sort Of iuterrde
played by the orchestra in the teeth Of the heros de-
SPAR. Respecting musical taste in Germany, we know
that Flotow . luueful opera of Martha has enjoyed
unsu parsed not unequaled popularity in the fullest
sense of the word. We mean By popularity the ad-
miraton of the whole people, of those who dare be
pleased unconsoiously, without stopping to Inquire
whether a composer has used three chords or three
hunC ed to express his meaning, and do not look tof
earning but sensuous beauty, in music. And regard
ing the actual state OF music in Italy we Cannot do bet
ter than to copy an extract from clever American
correspondent, "TrovatOre, Of DrigM = Boston Mp1
seal journal, as follows;
FLORENCE Jan. 3-The Carnival season has fairly
commenced and all Italy Is given over to mrth music
and Verdi. The operas of this composer monopoHhe
almost all the lyric stages OF the country Ir0vatore
taking the lead Next to 'Trovatore his most pop
uIar opera is " Rigoettv, ana then comes htt'i:
Smone Boccanegra" and "Luisa Miier are oeiuS
played at Rome and his latest work, Aroiuo, al
Parma. Here in Florence we have Ernanl. At
tila and Lombard, at the different opera-houses,
ard at all public concerts MS music cheuy cohPo7e'
the programmes. ,,.,,.n
announced for performance in out-oft the-way
place the name Of which forget; and OF Donnlzeu
the "Favorita" ard Lucrezia' are the only operas
we hear Of Bellins glorious triad, Norma, " Son
nanbula" and "Puritapi,' however, still retain
post ion and are not quite echpsed by Verdi.
Now, if have a hobby, it is Verdi, and, accas-
toned have been to the sneers and hrusts OF lhe
American and Engish press in regard 10 MS worhs,
the lively ard spontane appreciation he receives IN
Italy is the more grateful to me. 1t s not my Ihen
tcn to dlate upon his merits or attempt to proseyke
into Verdism those ferocious musical cassclsts VINO
would abOminate " Don Giovanni" itself, ana eau II
brassy and Verdish,o il they thought it had enac
mated from Italia greatest living composer nstead o
Mozart; but merely wish to show, by the nnn1er
of his works now being performed, how justly 'i'.
great man is appreciated IN his native coan.s IN
this moment they playing in various theaters ~
Italy the following Of his operas: " Ernan, lIos"
tore 4" "Travata." Attila," @ Simone BoccanegTa,
" Lusa Miller lombard Nabacc! :, piA Mac'
beth "Vepres Sciliennes,' 'AroldO, Rigo,
letto." There may be Others; but regards these
am certain if the official announcements Dy tne YPe'
ratio impresaros in various towns may De reuel & ol
Probably there before an instance OF s9cn
astonishing popularity" Irovatoe oeins P''J'" -
over a dozen theaters. s
Among the operate performers in Europe, many "
the mOst noted have appeared In the nuea o.a.eo'
aid it may not be uninteresting to those "h" nov A.
oyed their musical performances there, 10 TaI a
present whereabouts Of their old operate lriehus'
Rosa DeyIes and Morell the baritone, have Just aP-
peared al La Scala Milan, in "Na0uco, Mme
desco ard Ner Beradi ltenor) are az Llsoon ,hs
hey have made great success IN " rsvotta, 'is
- Pronhete and HIucreza" Nitrate, the tenor, Is