The New York herald., 1873-10-12
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC NOTES.

Mrs. Oates as the "Grand Duchesse,n will WELD
that parental saDre at the Olympic during the
present week, aud the fair, dckle and irollcsome
ruler OF Gerolsten Will nave a good representa-
ti0n.
"Barwise's BOOkn will continue open at Wal
lacks for another week, and then the idosic Dun
dreary will close 1t.
The marked features OF Mr. Strakoschs Italian
opera company are the individual merit OF its
members and the general evenncss and excellence
OF the troupe All the new members OF his COM
pany have now been heard, and not one OF them
has tailed. SO far all the efforts of the impresarlo
have tended to show the strength OF his company,
and lor this purpose he has produced number OF
DID, but iavorite, operas In rapid succession. We
nave already heard the company in
La Traviatan "Lucretia BorgIa," Faust"
"Lucia di Lammermoor'' and III Trovatore.n
This week "Mlgnonn is TO be produced
with Nilsson Torlanl and Cary in the
cast Other operas Will follow but what We
now want are the new works. Lately we have
heard nothing about the proposed production of
"Lohengrin," and the time for the production of
"AIda" has not yet been announced We know
that Mr.. StraKOschs company Is capable OF per-
forming them, and there is q general desire that
they should be put upon the stage as soon as pos
sble.
Signor Tamberlik's great power as an artist may
be Illustrated by very simple comparison. We
have already mad In this city, this season, Italian
French and English opera. The music in the
mouths Of most OF the artists has been simply the
notes OF the composer the ornamentation OF the
singers. In most cases 1t has been impossible
to distinguish the language of the llbretto. Signor
Tamber2 utters eacn word so distinctly that even
English can distinguish every Italian syllable.
1hls completeness Is lesson so important TO the
lyric artists Of later day that it is not to be over
looked, nor must we fail to do honor to great
master admirable in his method and SO artistic
III everything he attempts.
The story that the members of the Evangelical
Alliance have contributed to swell the audiences
at the ''Back Crook" is believed to be a SANDER
But some very pious people must go to the play
for there are certainly not wicked folks enough to
Ill the house night alter night A little sermon
might be preached this subject, but II is scarcely
worth while to preach it long the effect is the
opposite oil what is intended.
1t Is noteworthy fact that every opera pro-
duced at the Grand opera House last week was by
Donizetti-namely, "n Poliuto." LA Sonnambula,"
''Lucla di Lammermoor' and LA Favorlta." 1t is
even more noteworthy that there were fourteen
Italian performances in this city during the week
ten OF opera and four OF drama.
Signor Salvini will give only four more perform
ances this city for the present. AS the result OF
the six different parts in which he has appeared,
we recognize In him great actor Of the melo.
dramatic and vigorous school, but we find him
deficient In those nice shades OF the intel
lectual in art which are the chief distinc.
tion between tragedy and melodrama.
The dictionaries give no clear def nj
ton of the meaning Of the word melodrama; but
II were to call it the failure Of o dramatist or
an actor TO attain the sublime height OF tragedy
while producing complete, consistent and homo
geneous picture in the tragic form we would get
very near It's modern meaning. And Salvin
more Ihan anybody else, has taught US that melo-
drama is just one step below tragedy.
The Kellogg English opera company began their
season in Philadelphia last week. producing
"Faust, "Marltana,n .'Fra Dlavoon and Martha"
Miss Kellogg as Marguerite made great success,
and Mr.. Habelmann, the tenor, was well received.
The company is spoken OF by the press as one OF
lair average merit.
The variability of tune was scarcely we'll Illus
trated until Mr.. Emmett began his performances
at the Broadway Theatre. One air is tortured into
about fifteen shapes but through all OF them comes
the plaintlye tone or the request, 'Oh, Dear Mo-
ther, Can 60 Swims"
"America's greatest ilusionist, will becloud the
understanding OF New Workers every night for two
weeks, beginning tomorrow night, at Ferrero's
new Assembly Rooms. Hartz Is the 'ilusionist''
meant He has got something which he calls an
"Aerostat Spirituel," and he challenges all balloon
lists to initiate 1t. He insinuates that they may
find an easy way to "go up" by violating his copy
light Of the title 'Aerostat Splrituel.n
1t is said that the "Kng of the Scots" which is !
soon to be produced at the Lyceum Theatre, with |
Mr.. George Belmore In the leading part, will be |
one OF the most spendidly mounted dramas ever |
seen on the New York stage.
During one of the recalls in Friday nights per- |
formance OF Faust" at the Academy OF Music |
bouquet was 1ung from one OF the upper prosce- |
mum boxes to Nine. Nilsson. 1t came whirling |
through the air like bombshell, and caused the |
diva to start with look Of alarm. NJ Victor
Capoul, who had led out the cantatrice caught the
flowers ION the nyn with his left hand. The round
Of applause which greeted this feat suggested to .
cynic that good fielder had been lost the world
OF base bah when M. Capoul became q singer.
peculiar exhibition, with which not all New |
Workers are acquainted, is that now being pre-
sented at Robinson Hal, on Sixteenth street, near
Broadway. The very popularity Of the perform
ance forbids its assignment to definite place in |
the picture gallery OF public entertainment. Its
is such, that it commands place for
itself. The "Marionnettes" simply manufactured
humanity, muscles set to music, histriOnic art |
brought down to the mathematics of mechanism.
There is pleasant deception to eye ana
ear from the opening to the end OF the
play, . comminglng OF the real and the
that makes one almost wonder
where q dividing line shall be established,
and when at the fall OF the curtain the audience
depart it is only to marvel that art on the stage
could have been closely allied to puppet lie as
to exact SO much OF genuine praise. When mere
figures do SO much better in dialogue and action
ha h,,,r
be silent.
The company from the Grand Opera House an |
pear In Providence this week in Ground the !
nock" and "A Midsummer Nights Dream,u and |
yoes thence to Albany under the business manage
nent Of Mr.. James W. Morrissey. We understand |
hat "Round the Clock" will be revived at the
irand Opera House after the Italian nnera season