The Portland daily press., 1864-05-13

Portland Is to be favored on Monday and
Tuesday evening next with an entertainment
Of the rarest and most recherche charac ter.
II we are not misnforned no full Opera Com
pany has ever yet visited the city; no popular
opera has ever been brought out here in its
full proportions, unabridge, and with its char
acters, costumes and incidents all preserved
But the Company to appear here next week
is the same, in all respects, that has appeared
In New York, and commanded the attention
and appreciation Of the friends of dramatic
art aud musical talent not only In that city
but more recently Ia Boston. This Company
appeared at the Boston Theatre last week
precisely as they win appear here, except that
they will have narrower stage and inferior
scenery here-and the special Dramatic Critic
of the Boston Courier thus speaks Of the pei
Torrance:
The German Company, on Wednesday last, went
through with Faust to full and nthusiastic no use
iadeed there little too much admit ia ion for
the business OF the piece; Tor owing TO repeated
encores. a whole scene had 10 be left out There
seemed to bs general satisfaction Mt the very
that the German element was to have opportuni-
~ Of interpreting German sentiment; and as
FAUST had been rendered told style, sbnQ) by the
lf2uen Company, Tor one, Jumped with eagerness
NJ the chance of getting iuto the very arcana OF
topography, costume, manners, feelings dresses and
all that thing OF the place. the time and the people
Of Goeths's poem. Unpiea.ant il Is ever 10 MAKE
comparisons. there Is right inherent to lair judy
nent. aud claim it, and with all respect to the high
theologians of the operate theories must be al.
lowed 10 say, even here, that prefer the German
performance VI Faust to that of the Italian. The
part OF Margherta, for instance. almost sacred now
and exclusively, IL would SEEM appropriate to Miss
kellogg. was in the hands of M'dile Frederic a
role into which she had apparently to enter but
was Ia fact, II herself. The whole thing came with
such naturalness of nativity and homo neouspess
of sympathy, that SO far Is thu acting OF the
role Of Margherita involved, she was the Young
woman herself of Goethe's brain-the carnai en-
bodiment In look and dress, and plain ways and
peighborly manners, simple and brusque a first
but aflerward just like the present women OF her
race, when won and married, passionate, obedient
seifsacrifcing; indeed, while ! am thinking about
It, might as well say IL at oaca phlegmate as they
are supposed to be, there no hoier bound wo-
men In all this world THAI these same old country
Flemiugs and Holanders, & c. &c., and am par
tisAn or eountryman of theirs either.
Taere was great difference between Miss KEEL
loGg's manner of singing the Spinning Wheel song
and IL die Fredericis. Offensive from intention TO
no conviction OF these who admire the beautiful and
refined American, still this Judgment of mine found
in the style of Frederic a vague and dreamy copdi
ton going aiar of into the childhood song of the
King OF Thule. an inexpiicabie intimacy and con-
uprising and dim ming des tiny that despite the
rather stupid information of the yrow muse melody,
struck upon tbs listener with the potency Of an
tually existent fact
1t Is queer charge to make against an actress
to say that she ~ too grac f1 and yet la comparing
these two Prima Donnas. have TO say 1t against
Niss Kellogg Looking ut Margherita in the light
of her social position she is no better than those
common people-women Ia big caps that were her
gossps; and consequently that studied grace Of the