Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-11-02
AMUaENfHNTs.


PIKEs orERA-HoUsE- The Cols0n Concert
Last NighL--After an absence ofnesrly two
years, during which time she has won1er-
fully improved in appearance, Madame
Colson appeared last night at the Opera
house. Her pensive eyes have grown still
more sweet, her brow and face more placid,
her mouth more deliciously humid and her
voice more rich since then; but her mRnner
is still the same, and her piquancy just as
charming, as when she appeared here first in
opera.
In point ofquality, the audience was ex-
cellent; in point of numbers, fair, although
not so large as we anticipated or wished 1t
was ike most Cincinnati audiences, cold and
critical; but was thawed into enthusiasm by
the French thansonstts sung by Madame
Coson, which was tapturously and per-
emptorily encored.
Our memories of this song are extremely
vivid, but it is inseparsbly associated with
ColEon, who renders it in the most artistic
manner and with grace and finish that we
have never heard excelled and rarely
equaled. Her laugh is like the voice of q
bird, which seems to have made her delicate
throat its home and sings there a music that
1t learned before Heaven was begun.
Miss Kellogg, an American pTiai6 donna,
made her deb9t in this city in the aria Luce
di Ctnest Anima, from linda az CidmouniI.
Her voice is very small but sweet and clear;
her execution evinces culture without much
natural capacity. Donzetti's delicate aria
did not receive any new beauty from her
rendering, yet she nevertheless filled place
in the company with certain degree of
agreeableness.
Susini was introduced rs a basso, but sang
a baritone aria from LUcresid Borgid. His
voice is full, round, clear and mellow, and
altogether one of the most agreeable we re-
member to have heard. He sings in good
taste, and, although the Liberty duett from
Puriia7H lacked spirit, his portion OF II was
rendered with full appreciation of the
musical idea, and he evinced capacity TO
make it a thrilling performance if combined
with the orchestral accompaniment, and the
scenic and dramatic effect
Ferri we like still less than when we heard
him some months ago. He can not, by any
possibility sing sosteRuto passage, and the
tTemOr of his voice is, at times, positively
disagreeable. In the quaTtette from Lucia
| lie sang very cleverly, but the Largo al
| FaCtotum" lacked that round tone and
| rollieking style which render it SO acceptable
from the lips of Formes.
Briguoi sang "Come Gentil in exquisite
| style, as also its counterpart, from baUOr5td,
"Spirto Gentil, both of which were encored.
| Brignoli is cor ct pTetereG nihH. If he could
| take few lessons from a dancing master,
and learn to walk with grace we could refer
| TO him with some degree of patience; but his
exit spoils the effect of his singing, and the
listener must shut his eyes if he would not
| descend in an instant fromthe sublime to the
ridiculous.
The Concert company, as a whole, is quite
| good, and eminently deserves the patronage
of every lover of art We have been fam
ished so long fer classical music that we feel
under some obligation to Mons. Grau and
Mr.. Pike, and we earnestly hope the Opera
house tonight may be filed.
The programme has been carefully selected,
and contains an aria and a duett from Don
Giovanai, in both of which Madame Colson
will sing, and those who remember her ex-
quisite impersonatiOn of "Zerlina," upon her
first appearance in this city, will not miss
this opportunity of hearing her this evening