New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-11-27
ACADEMY OF Music.
LA JUIVE.


lance, that ia the next season. lending enchanment to
the view be recommts himself TO parchment in liquid
Italian whereon the singers swear notes and he swears
cash. Notwithstanding The fu successes of last season,
and the pedominance Of defeats, Mr.. Uman has come
to the rescue of the musical world He is of opinion
that a city of million Of inhabitants including its CO.
tengents via the ferres-with an opera-house costing
some $iOO,O 600, and where musicians abound, should
not be without lyrical drama. Accordingly, the
wrecks Of the departed season stand the manure for
this and the manager boldly began last night with an
expen-iyey mounted and illustrated work, La JHiDe.
Tie house was crowded with the customary elegance
and criticism Of similar ovatons; and there were the
life and esgerness Of fresh actors and auditors.
Madame Fabbr is identified here with the character OF
the Jeres orup to this time no one else has performed
it, The number of times she gave 1t at the
Winter Garden was sufficient to interpret the
composer to the popular ear and to create wish with
amateurs to hear the work again. And the came may
he sad Of Mr. Sgelli the strongminded and strong
voiced Jew-certainy the most vigorous and truthful
of his delineations 1.-THE Jewess accordingly being
borne on the wings of the applause it gained at Mr.
Stuars theater has settled in the Academy. The
character of the Princess in this second edition, was
done by the favorte soprano, Madame Bishop, and
thst of the Cardinal by no less person than Formes
The Jewess" was if we recollect right, prom
ised for last at the Academy. Much was
said Of the rayshng costumes, transcendant ar
NOR, heroic tsbleaax and PROFESSIONS, and all the
acce ssories such as the French grand opera house
at Paris, delights to display 1t may safely be assumed
shat Mr. Ullman has been long while in making his
multitudnous and brilliant preparations importing the
chivalrc suits-as they not manufactured here
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French Academy, studying " the business the sc
ton and groupings called heariealy and perfect
ing the limitations of the Partisan performance, such as
Hslevy and Scribe, composer and author, approved Of
Mr.. Ulman is not seant in his premOnOry advertise
ments and the descriptions of theOlogans, dgnitaries
and acoytes-knghts, soldiers horses and grandeurs
of the -miltannot forgetting the holiday suits
of 4i4' Of the great unwashed were soul-subdu-
ing az the catalogue Of the Versailles Palace, which
the verdant American traveller studies previous to
doing that miraculous offspring of taste and taxes.
A subject well worthy the attention of the traveller
il the prodgious invention displayed in the stageilus-
tratons of Paris Whether of the minute and private,
or vast and public character the merit is equal. The
only time we ever Jaw Macbeth put the stage in
manner worthy the author, or indicative of cOmpre-
tension of the wierd ftastic and terrible character
ton being given. The Witches were not like ragged
Tombs revolyers but imperative, volant, Fates,
messengers of deceit and perdon. The apparition of
Banquos ghost not piece offarcical materalism
the actor all alive with daub of red paint on bis
face-but the bruised blood-staned corpse rs-
ing into his chair among company in
tent on the feast, and 80 CHASTITY and sublime
in his spiritual sorow that the genius and culture of
/ I'D - hi and tha
supremacy of Shakespeare. So, too in the ingenious
combinations and verismilitudes due the opera Take,
for example the ceveness of the end of the first act
Of the piece given last night: great Christian fete-
day-car,linals bishops magnates rabble process
sion az though dug up of five hundred years decay,
and rendered beautifully VITAL passes before the eye.
But this ia simply brilliant. 1t is sunlight
without shadow. And 80 the keen-eyed dramatist
introduces his dark tints. Society like Noah Clsypoe
always requires somebody to kick, especially
in ito patriotic and theological moods. Most
truthfuy does the intellectual Jew and bis lovely
daughter-iwho turned out to be somebody elses)-
appear az the articles kicked in this moving scene and
what capital lyrical medium ii becomes. For, amid
the tread Of the multitude and sparkling of the gala
day and the ecsacy of triumphant faith, is heardthe
voice Of paernal love- and of ghsstly fear of his
igious foes and prosecutors, narrowing that the
dience. enjoying bis misery, cannot restrain them
selves and the claque is stihed in universal approba
tion This bit of music was written for Duprez, who
loved the part 1t deals in the highest range of the
voice in which he produced his most notable effects,
and which broke his tenor premsturely. Musico-
dramatic effect on the stage may be produced
al too great a cost, as worn voices show. But Mr..
Stigei il in the funess of strength; and however
dramatic may be to make the character of an old man
10 yocay clear and good, it is indispensable, for the
heezy dryness of age allowed in the circle Of
Apollo In this intense dramatic finale it must not be
forgotten that Madame Fabbri shares his honors In this
scene. Another fine dramatic novelty is the secret
celebration Of the Feast of the Passover, most beauti-
fully rendered, musically-nd exciting the universal
religious sentiment making the audience sympathize
with the oppressed.
The stately robes and stately voice of Formes lends
grandeur to the scenes in which he engaged Mr..
Fornes has the most expressive Of any Of the r-eass
bassyoces heard here. Remarkable is his power of
tone his ability to diminish his volume, 30 "a to be
heard with effect in drawing room is still more worthy
| Of mention.
The stage display last night was the ambitious
and successful of any of the operas yet presented
Nothing public exeites wonder affection reminseence,
| or gratitude in the City Of NewYork: extemporized
and passing in ia populations, there is no local, no
intra-murl pride and glory, as in Paris and other
cities to evoke and sustain any foundation or enter
prise appealing TO national tastes and municipal self
satisfaction. The Louvre il French institution,
though eclectic; so, too, the Academy of Music, OF
| Medicine and of Sciences in Paris. But here the
divisions and distractions of nationaltes prevent con-
eentrations. Crystal Palace burns down and Is for
gotten. The splendid of opera houses is put up
and the success and fidelity Of its illustrations are no