New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-02-13


verses sample:
o, say did you s'e, By The dawns early light,
What proudly hailed the twilghs last cleaning
Those broad stripes agd bright stars Which on Monl'r. a" night
They but ,he night o"r ss is sti there!
oer the land of The free and the home of the brave
From the shore dinly thro the mists of the deep
what IS Hat %Ish the beens eT Andersdns keep
Ms as i lt"ly bows ha!f so9cens hat @Gl9sgs , f
, It's tni goy reee4d nov shiGe @ on on ne & s'TSsn @
Oh, God, give them courage that banner TO save.
The other verses are even worse than those
quoted.
l must tell you that Miss Hinckley has made what
is called hit," although the opera season has
not been brilliant. She is a native of Albany,
daughter of physician who died recently, and left
family without dime. Miss Hinckley is now en-
deavoring to earn money enough to pay for the
education of her brothers and sisters. She is nice
singer, with fresh mezzo soprano voice, good
school, but can't act bit, and is very cold. When
Hinckley and Brignoli come together, it ia like
ceremonious visit from one iceberg to another.
However, she may warm up after while.
In order to give Colson little rest, they offered
La Signorina Elena chance at Luc7etia Borgid
last week. Elena is another instance Of the fact
that this world is awfuly given to lying. The
papers said she was gushing young thing with
splendid voice, fine dramatic style, magnificent
stage presence, and so on. She turned out to be
rather stout Irish lady, Cher name is Ellen CoWran)
Withsa loud voice, as far as it went but no school
and very little acquaintance with the music. She
really did not seem to know what she was singing
about. Her acting was pretty fair, and she ought
to go on the stage for the heavy, mother style Of
business.
The operate enthusiasm of the Brooklyn people
has already begun to decline, and one two more
performances will them up. The illustrious
Grau is making bold push with The new opera,
Gun Bao in Maschera,' with which the season is
to be wound up. This opera is Verdi's latest work.
and after hearing one or two rehearsals I have
fallen quite in love with it, The plot is the most
deiciously absurd of any in the modern drama.
Here you have the official r8sunaG:
Richard, Count of Warwick, and Governor of
Boston, America, falls in love with Amelia, the
wife of Reinhart, his secretary and intimate friend
Amelia conceives similar passion for him; but in
order to preserve her honor and virtue goes to con-
suit Ulrica, a black asrologer, in order to know
from her the means of subdung her passion. u
RIGA tells her that she knows a certain herb grow
ing in certain place near Boston, where criminals
are led forth for execution, the juice of which
causes people to forget the objects of their love ;
but she tells her that this herb must be gathered
personally, by moonlight, by those very people
who stand in need of its magic powers Amelia,
though frightened at the description of the place.
and Of the circumstances under which the magic
herb was to be gathered, still pressed by what she
thinks to be her duty, determines to 60 and fetch
the same that very night. Richard, meanwhile who
had gone at the same time to visit the asrologer
| for amusement, with party of friends, in disguise
overhears all the conversation that passed between
Amelia and Ulrica, and thereupon he secretly re-
solves to follow Amelia during the night to the
| a nj IA pIyy5
But, while conversing there with Amelia, he is
| accosted by Reinhart Amclia's husband, who had
come thither to warn him against the danger he
| was in of being assassinated by a party Of con-
sprators, headed by Samuel and Tom, who had
followed him secretly to that place, to that effect.
Reinhart having persuaded Richard to go home
alone, lest the lady, going with him, should serve
| as mark for his assailants, Richard, before going
makes Reinhart promise on his OATH to accompany
| home the lady without removing the veil from her
| face, nor attempting otherwise to discover who
she is This Reinhart promises to do But, while on
their way, they surrounded by the conspirators
| who, upon finding Reinhart instead of the Count
try to conceal their purpose by pretending to have
gone there to meet some lady. Meanwhile, Tom
insists upon seeing the lady who is with Reinhart
and, while the latter strives to defend her, gen
| eral strife ensues, during which Amelia, through
fright drops her veil, and she is consequently re.
cogniZed by all the party.
Reinhart, upon finding out the treacherous con-
duct of the Count in his regard, turns into hatred
all the affection he had previously entertained for
| him. and in revenge he Joins the conspirators in a
| plot to assassinate the Count at masked ball,
| which he was to give at his house the ensuing
| night. Lots having been drawn as 10 whom of the
conspirators to stab the victim, the task falls
upon Reinhart, who accordingly succeeds in accom-
plishing the deed. Richard, before dying, assures
Reinhart that, Notwithstanding all that has happen
ed, his wife was pure and innocent; and, for his
part, he reveals to him the determination he had
| made the day previous, to send both him and
| Amelia to England, in order to avoid every further
| pF hpr thpn vinU
| all those who were implicated in his assassination
he dies sincerely regretted by his people, who had
! loved him like father for the many benevolent
| actshe had exercised toward them.
Richard is the baritone, Reinhart the tenor
Uhicd and Amelia, sopran This very nice
plot for the modern Athens towards the end of the
| nineteenth century, isn't it? The scene was
originally placed in Italy, but it was changed by
order of the Roman authorities, who didn't fancy
some of the political illusions. I can tel
your lady readers to get ready for some choice
| piano morceauX, and particularly dashing littlt
canzonet in the first act The tenor has two air.
in the composers best vein, barcarole in the frs
act, and a romance in the third. For the bal
scene, which closes the play, the composer ha
written very brilliant get of Mazurkas. Colson
Miss Philips, Miss Hinckley, Brignoii and Ferri vii
sing in this opera.
Decidedly, you must ask NJ. BoudousQu& to give
you "Un Ballo in Maschera,'' a work which ha
been received with the greatest enthusiasm whe1
ever it has been performed.
In the theaters, the only excitement we have ha
has been the so called rivalry between Forrest an
Booth in :" Richeleu.' The play was altogether S
much better done at Nblo's than at the Winte
Garden that Booth quickly left the field and trie
"Macbeth.' have not seen it, but hear that it
an uneven, shaky performance. The Winter Ga1
den people are trying to stave off Charlotte Cusl
man, who is engaged to follow Booth, and put 0
Mrs. John Wood, who looks very well, but somt
what thinner since her European tour. Wallac
announces new five act comedy, which is, lea
the old play, " All in the Wrong," cut down an
, localized. The last scene of the ''Seven Sisters
still draws well at Keenes. She took this seer
7 from an English theater, and patented it here
Now, her English machinst is getting it up for or
l of the Philadelphia theaters. "Professorn Ande
son is fixing up the old Bowery for 'Temple
r Magic Old Wallack declares in the papers th
nobody has loaned him $4,000 wherewith to finis
. his theater; he only wishes they had hear th
the work is going on, but that the house will not
done before the middle of april, or mayhap the fir
of May.
The skating in the Central Park interferes goc
deal with the theaters. Everybody skates now,
days, ladies' and all. The other day saw MAJ