Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-10-15


Iiegens has abandoned the idea Of taking
part IN any OF the English operas 10 be pro-
duced during the winter season The DIM
culties that the Viennese donna meets With ,.
IN ner attempts TO acquire the English Ian
guhge' Is the cause assigned. st-
Patti is said TO receive $500 n lnonth
Ior her services in the Strakoscb and Ull-
man Company. Mareizek gets $3.50 week
as conductor; Tamberlik was 10 have
received $4,000 for twenty-five nights
mat at least, is the rumor, and rumors
never are false.
: "A correct list of the members of Oh
Cooper.s American Opera Troupe is as fol-
lows; Annie Milner, Miss H. Payne Miss
Annie Kemp, Miss Maria Barton, Brookhouse
Bowler, +. b. Boudinot, Ainsley Cook, J. II.
Collins and Messrs. Arnold, Wsrrie. HurIev'
Mikens, Mrs. Boudinot, Mrs. Gillespie and
Miss Vaudeville. The orchestra Is under
the direction of II. o. Cooper. Business
agent, 7. Allston Brown. -.
Among new operas is II Folefto di Gred
by Petrella, recently produced at Naples
with such success, that the composer was
called twenty times before the curtain; les
EVdnts des LGndes by the Russian COM
poser Rubenstein, to be produced at Vienna
IN Noyemberi Faust, played at Berlin on the
18th OF August lGoethe's birthday, with
music partly. by. Lindpainter and partly by
NIL
is now writing in Paris for Borghi-Mamo, TO
be produced at Milan; and Muzios Sconesse,
to be produced shortly in New York.
The numerous admirers of the eminent
prirad donna, Anna de la Grange, will be in
terested to hear that she is still in South
America, and at latest dates was playing at
the Colon Theater in Buenos Ayres, with a
Signor Leimi as first tenor. Among the
operas in which she is to appear this season
are Beatrice Gi Tendd NdbHco, Pitritani, EIi-
SIR dAmoTe and SG6o; also, a new opera
called Gismonda, composed for her by one
Alexander Maratta. La Grange is doing SO
well in South America that there does not
seem to be any prospect of her speedy return
TO the United States.
The Home Journal saws "Mr. KELLOGG
informs us that his daughter is to appear IN
public in the coming season. Her friends
have urged it as the destiny for one who is
too gifted for private life, and her studies
have been, for year past, preparatory to
this. She is delicate, and it is a marvel with
what power she sings; but the quality of her
voice, and the intensity of expression with
which her music is laden, constitute charm
which seems to us wholly peculiar. With
her intensity and impassioned force the
physical powers will undoubtedly be per-
tected, but the enchantment will be in the
genius of which it is the utterance. We
shall look forward with exceeding interest
to the. interpreting of her music by the
world"
GRIsr SINGING TO THE SoMBER MOUNTAINS
OF observation-disclosures Grisi has been maxi
ing short tour in Ireland. A local paper
speaks thus of her at Glendalough: "Al-
though skylark may never have warbled
over the gloomy shores of Glendalough, the
strains which princes have listened to with
rapture might one day last week have been
nord ~ o1n1 = h.
kevin's Bed. A small party was made up
with view of exhibiting to Madame Grisi
the grand and peculiar beauties of the City
of st. Kevin.' The lady was greatly pleased
with her visit, and being taken in a boat, as
in duty bound, to the bed where young st.
kevin stole to sleep the Queen of Song
poured forth, unsolicited, a melody, which
re-echoed with bewitching effect from the
somber side of the frowning Lugduff A
favored few of the country people, and the
party III the boat, formed the only audience.
We can imagine the crowds who would have
lined the silent shores of the dark lake, had
the least notice been given of the excur-
sion."
SALARIES OF TRACE Ola Ns.--The opera sing
ers must look to their laurels--or what thev
probably value more highly-their purses.
Prima donnas and tenors have generally
been supposed to be the most extrayapantIv
not often get higher wages than two
tragedians are just now receiving in New
York and Boston Mr.. Forrest Is paid bV
Mr.. Nixon $3.50 night (not $500, as has
been stated or $4,000 for 200 nights; and
Edwin Booth has just received So, 900 as his
share of the profits of four weeks playing at
the Howard Athenaum, in Boston. Prob
ably it would be difficult to persuade either
of these performers of the decline of the
legitimate drama. The Bostonians have not
only paid their favorite in money, but in
criticisms of the most elaborate and Iaud-
atory character, and in social civilities from
the most distinguished people. When the
President of Harvard College gives dinner
to an actor, and invites men like ARassiz to
meet him, DR.. Bellows may congratulate
himself that the good time" of the theater
is coming fast.
DRAMATIC STUPID1TIEs AT THE PARIS
ATERs.-Fairy pieces are decidedly the
rage at the Paris Theaters. The good Paris
ians seem to have even grown tired of the
perennial vaudeville; and high tragedy and
comedy are long since, to all intents and
purposes, defunct. But manager no sooner
brings out one of those nonsensical show
pieces, without head or tail, full of gandy
scenery, astonishing transformations and
lightly clad ballerines, called fairy extrava-
ganza, than the rush commences, and every
evening witnesses the gathering Of a fornid-
able queue at the doors of the establishment
a large portion of which is doomed to dis.
appointment after waiting patiently in the
street for hours together. Two spectacles Of
this kind which were very popular in their
day, but had been shelved for the last fifteen
years, have been revived, in an improved
form, at the Cirque, Ia sort of Partisan
"Bowery,") and the Porte Saint Martin q
Theater. Since the days when these pieces
first excited the wonder and admiration Of
the bddduds, immense progress has been
made in the mechanical accessories of the
stage; and, as the principal attraction of fairy
plays is in the cleyerness with which the
tricks are accomplished the Hen that Idys
the Golden Egg, and the Sleeps F6sL
may be considered as good as new. Both
these favorites of a foruer generation have
been gotten up, as the bills say, Regardless
of expense" and it is not an idle boast,
The Sleeps Foot, in this particular, Is
the most splendid production, of its kind, I
have ever seen. To add to its claims to
public patronage, the management has
brought over, from London, complete En-
glish corps de ballet, belonging to the CoVent
Garden Theater. 1t sounds strangely TO
hear of stiff and awkward English ballet,
in the city of daHseuses par ereekeRes; but
1t must be remembered that the Parisians
are tired Of what they have seen every day
for years, and the novelty Of the English
corps would be enough to insure its success,
even if coupled with an Indifferent air OF
merit. and these flfr-haired nymDhs Of