The Portland daily press., 1864-05-13

kellogg, which was so beau ifu to behold. seemed
our OF place and being so. Impaired the vfaEem-
plaucs OF the situation Now Frederick began by
being natural. almost boorsh. in her first inter-
view with that dev-made up Faust and throu ghout
her entire role she preserved peculiarly plebeian-
ism that verified The intention Of Goethe as we'll as
can make 1t out by comparing causes with effects.
AS to passionate performance, strengt ened by q
true ienton'c tone of afectionate adhesiveness to
the object of her bewi'ched love turn back to her
last scene in the prison. and stsrtle your memories
with ner glorious acting, acting unsurpassed in
It's altitude, its meaning and is music
Inc Faust of thinner was of = fine qua ity, and
Whenever he went to the upper register, see If he
could whisper to Apollo and the muses. from the
cupoia of the scientific architecture OF his art there
was at once dscoverable species oil atmospheric
tenderness, that called t. mind that queer big boy
of stubborn awkwardncss, the gifted, petted and
bellicose BTigno who sometimes could lavishly
bestow upon lis audience miracle of cadence; but
Faust. Margherita. Valentine and even the brass
band with that oyerra'ed march, all were que ched
out by old limp. flor Herman adopts tue halt of
Satanl with the glarieg eyes, the peaked nose, up
started eyebrows, white grin, and lungs moved by
earthquake OF Red Mephistopbel,s. When /
heard that ponderous ton of voice pouring from the
lips of Hermans (Mephstopheles) tcgan to wonder
il mis- father was not giant and his mother giant
IN, and amuse travellers by their proportions and
play thunder in the absences OF electricity. heard
more than once, Labache the elder and bigger, sing
over regiment of kettle drums and q brigade OF
metallic wind instruments IN the Italian Opera
House of Paris and Himmer's upper notes re-
called Brignol SO Herman's lugged over the disk
Va my hoinois Anc Soutiheutti hiZeu Nolce VI auc
"Barbiere."
really cannot find words with which to express
my feelings about Herm ans voice and his acting
in fine, am at this moment OF writing obliged to
light my pipe and smoke. no ing tbatwise TO catch
q wreath OF words of the column OF mystih in Z
vapor. He max the whole Opera blush scarlet
through aud through, with the shame of his great
snfulness; and moralists get irightenedIest Herr
Hefmans forgetting that he is a Christian German.
should, when the curtain drops, go on playing out
Mephs;opheles. in all tho varied bye-wsys of social
lite. 80 intensified Is the personidcsiion OF his
role, so grand the utterance of his devi-fun; so
beautiful the deep coloring of every incident OF his
duty.
never saw an audience so charmed with pro-
gramme; and cheer after cheer announced nearly
all they felt and though the principal performers
peared in obedience to a call, that did not &c
satisfy for they brought forward agaia, to
how the glad people looked and hear how they
could reward.
On this occasion, must allude TO the performance
on Tuesday night, when Mr.. Theodore Habbleman
made his debut in the tenor part Of George Brown
in the Opera of La Dame Blanche. have but time
to say that his entire performance Brilliant,
done; and it will not be that shall forget the
wondrous manner in which he sang that oid-fash
Toned song of Robin Adair. Will he not sing il
again for u.s. Is.