, 1873-01-26
a. the successor Of NJ. Wieniawski, at the Opera
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a. the SUCCESSOR Of NJ. Wieniawsk, at the oper
House, St. Petersburg.
4 negro violinist, H. Claudia Drindis. la
| lately played with success in concert at Saint
Quentin.
Pau1us, the leader of the band Of the Frencl
Garde Repub1icaine, will visit America with .
new musical organization.
Mrs. Charles Moultonts physicians hay,
warned hor not to attempt to sing for some time
and have advised her to pass tho remainder O.
| the winter in Havana.
Carl Wolfsohn is giving orchestral matinecs il
Philadelphia with some success. One Of tht
papers OF that city calls him q the keystone
Thomas," whatever that may mean.
Donizetti's grand hve-act opera, "Don Sebas
tian," has just been revived with great splendo1
at the new Opera House Vienna.
A piece by Prince George Of Prussia, under the
nn1ne Of G. Conrad, entitled " Christina ot
National Theatre. The overture and several
moroequr were composed by Theodore Bradsky.
The whole was well received.
| A new opera, 's Harold or, The Last King ot
the Sa4ons," +" has just attained great success at
k@nigsberg, in Prussia. It il tho first attempt
Of young composer, Gustaye Dullo, who has
the system Of Richard Wagner. :,
The Mondo Artisico, of Milan, speaks in the
highest terms Of q new tonor, now appearing in
Italy under the namo Of Ugo Talbo. He wa,
long known in the best London amateur circles
| as Mr. Hugh Brennan,
| De Vivo, the business manager Of the Aimee
Opera Doutfe Company, ia in HavAn~, arranging
with Tamberlick for bringing the Havana Com
| pany to tho Academy OF Music in april and
taking the Aimee Company to the Tacon at the
Hame TINA
The late Emperor Of Austria, when List had
played before him, went up to compliment him.
IT have heard List, and Thalberg, aud
Chopin" ho said, grayely " but haro never
seen any one perspire Like you" )
Madame Adelina Patti, having recovered from
| severe throat attack, appeared at st. Peters
burg On the 9th IN Meyerbeer'a Dinorah." :"
Nilsson -Rouzaud is at Moscow.
than eight of his compositions will be perform
cd for tho first timo, including d pater noster, a
requiem, chorus, "Omnipotont Lord" bex
sides secular works.
III. Charles Lecocq, whoae =" Cent Viergcs"
has gone the round OF musical Europe, eave
England, has had another decided SUCCESS in
Brussels with his comic opera, !" La File do
Madame Angot," produced st the Fantasies
Parisiennes.
The Lioderluanz received during the last year
S49, ,805.47, and lived up to it right royalty, ox-
pending $40, 656.48, leaving balance Of 9148.77,
scarcely sufficient to pay 3 thirty minutesf
comnaers. The officers for 1873, Just elected,
dents, Theodore Heidenfeld. and. Dr.. H. Bno:-
zendorff Treasurer, II. Uhl Secretaries. H.
Mosenthal. and 4. D. Goepel librarians, Julius
Meyer, and F. Eisenmann ;; and Musical Leader,
The London Times Of Dec. "a says that the
Teatro Massmo, /" as Ean Carlo is called by the
ePosded wae auaeneo 4e wss aa
rush to hear " Don Carlos" Verdi. too, was
there to superintond the performance, md as he
had been unremitting in his exertiors for
month or moro, everything went of in q
ID G's hs hsst''aste ba and 4hs Fers5 s4s
applauded, all but one unfortunate whose
voice was not equal to the MasBi1no,"
and tho popular maestro was loaded with bonors.
Thirty times he WAS called for by IN audience
enthusiastic almost to madness, and on his re-
turn to his hotel crowds accompanied him, while
the road was in q blaze Of Light.
Piccolonaini WAS the greatest imrostor that
ever presumed to present herself before an in
telligent musical audience 81 q prima DONNA
She had not an idea Of the meaning Of singing.
She could no more sing scale than she could
cult to common sense, whenever she came in
contact with a difficulty, the manner Of her
shaking her ltt]e head, making dash ut it, and
then ecrampllug holtor-ske1ter through it,
would haye been amusing. There was one
thing, however very much to her credit-that
she never dented her incapacity, but rather
honestly and conscientiously admitted the fact.
On one occasion Was sLe known indeed to have
said, "They call me little impostor, and they
give me bouquets, and applauses, and money!;
why not be d little impostor 2"
The Gazette dci Teatri Of Milan has tue fol-
lowing pleasant paragraph concernin: bliss Bon
son, eistez-in-law Of A. II. Griswolo, OF Cincin-
natl: "Rosa Benson is the na1ne sf q young
deb7ltdnte who came to us from America to study
singing in Milan, under Professor Sangioyanni,
known to be one Of the few masters Of unsur-
passed reputation. Hiss Benson vii make her
first appearance at Lorce Italy. in tbs opera 'La
6onnambu1a, and there is no doubt but that eho |
will have such success as her merits deserve,
and Of merits she has rnany. Beautiful ia per-
son, blonde as Febo, with sympathetic voice,
fine education, intelligence, She has everything
to arrive at that goal to which all aspire and few |
OBTAIN"
The birthday of the Crown Princess OF Russia |
was commemorated two weeks since IN Moscow.
On which occasion it Was announced that Nile. |
Grand Opera, Moscow, and the theatre was
brilliantly Illuminated for the occasion. Before |
the performance commenced ali the Russian and |
Italian artists including Mile Patti, came for.
ward IN full dress to sing the - Russian hymn,
which Was encored-: Tho heroine Of the evening |
then appeared as Amina, in ia sonnambuls,n
her. entrance being the signal for perfect !
ovation. A corbeile OF flowers, containing .
casket, in which was gold circlet, orname2ted
with star df diamonds, was presented to her,
and the jewel placed upon her head. From tho /
clouds appeared to fall showers Of bouquets and
other presents, the stage being literally covered.
The finale was redemanded, and during the per-
Formance the popular prima donna had to return
nearly hundred times to bow her acknowledg-
nents. Tho nights receipts which foil to Mile.
PATHS share amounted to aboutE ,4e0. She has
aow' made her rentree in "Dinorah," at the
Opera House, ST. Petersburg.
Lord Lytton's Domestic Infclicitics.
From tho Nep Yo7k Herald
Lord Lytton's married life, like that OF several
II Ills illustrious compee1s in literature, was
:endered unhappy by the disturbing influence
which is prettily termed the incompatbility of
husband and wife in every case where the parties
ire Of high station. He WAS married in 1927,
vhen his literary life had just been tinted with
he first dush OF. appreciation: She whom he
selected for wife was also known in literature.
Che intorest excited by the uniOn Of two such