Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-03-19
Inez Fabbrps Concert Last Bvspins.

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The audience at Smith 3 Nixon's Hall last
evening was very swaziland then the
hPhaidi hdndtdi were numerous-con5ider-
ing the reputation Of Madame Fabbri, and
what We should suppose would be the nat
ural desire to bear q new PTiraa donna Of 30
much note. The programme was not well
chosen nor attractive, which fact combined
with a growing and now quite general dis
taste for operate concerts, may account at
least in part, for the slenderness Of the at
tendance.
In lnez Fabbri, personally, we were agree.
ably disappointed. She is much younger
hnd better looking than we had supposed.
She is peculiarly prina. donna. like in SEM
blance; appears no more than twenty. three
or four; has dark and h~alfcoquettish eyes;
mobile face and quite a piquant expression.
Her form is round, firm, graceful and elias.
tic, and on the whole she is rather an inter-
esting woman, whom, if 1t were the will of
Fate, nc man of gallantry would find it diff
cult to love to any rational extent.
So much for Fabbri, the woman. Now
for Fabbri, the artist. Her organ is more of
a pure than a mezzo. soprano, and has neither
the range nor the power of execution we
had been led to anticipate.
She evidently belongs to what is known as
the pure Italian school; singing with little
elaboration or ornamentation, and almost
altogether in the upper register, where her
notes are clear, full and resonant, but hardly
sympathetic or in any manner emotional.
One remarkable feature Of her singing is
her complete ease and the gushing quality
of her voice, which flows as the water does,
from a fountain of nature.
Her runs, her t%rills, her roulades, seem
only half made often, because she does not
dwell on them; but skins over them so
lightly, that she appears to miss many of the
h~alf-notes, and, not u~nfrequently, whole
ones.
The "Valse di Bravura" we never heard so
plainly given and yet it was satisfactory,
for what she endeavored to do, she did
e~ffectually. Indeed, she never undertakes
any great vocal task, but manages ex~cellently
what she essays to perform.
Her style is neat, finished and easy, but
there it ends; and hence we must regard
her as a fine, though not a great vocalist.
We think she would grow upon US, for free
dom from foridity is SO prone at first to rem
der one coldly and severely critical, that
this semi. apathy may prevent a proper ap-
probation of the merits of an artistic.
Mr.. Charles R. Adams is a very agreeable
tenor; singing with som effort, but being
much freer than most tenors from falsetto
passages and unpleasant diminuendos. His
cadepzas are very sweet, are round and full,
and blended in the duetto from Masnadisri
with fine effect.
Herr Mulder is an excellent pianist, but
too much given to the De Meyer style of
compOsition-too fond of fortissimo and vio-
lent contrast. His execution is fine and his
piano passages are admirable, reminding us
of Thalberg's delicious, dreamy manner. We
should suppose he had studied List very
closely, and grown, perhaps uncoRsciously,
to initiate his compositions.
Tomorrow evening, Fabbri Will give her
second and last concert, as will be seen by
reference to the advertisement and we hope
she will then have g large audience.