Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-06-20

Joe jefferson Is on fishing excursion in
Minnesota.
Maggie Mitchell will summer at Long
Branch.
When Miss Nelson, the English actress,
was in ST. Louis, several ladies and citizens
presented her handsome bouquet in which
was set a bird cage, and when it was handed
to her the bird inside of il, as if he knew
what was expected of him, commenced to
sing his sweetest.
Snare drums give tone to Kentucky
church choirs.
Two American young ladies, Miss Mar
garet Bailey, and Miss Miles, recently made
their debut on the operate stage in Naples,
in - Somnambula.'
new opera comique, entitled " Nina,
by NJ. Ambrose Thomas is in the press.
Johann Strauss new operetta, " lie Car
naval de Rome. is said 10 have won a com
plete success at Vienna.
Nine. States, who has gone to Mexico. re-
sumed her maiden name, Agatha Vaudeville,
after obtaining her divorce
The practice of kissing dramatic per-
formance was first introduced at the Thea
tre Francais on the Nth of January. 1856.
Miss Beatrice Amore, who recently made
her debut in " La Fayorita,' at Malta. j.
Mrs. Emeline Reed, formerly soprano in the
choir of the Church of the Holy Trinity,
Brooklyn.
We get no longer any good wholes in
opera We learn to be contented with a
very poor ensemble, or patiently accept il
as inevitable, if that be the condition of
our witnessing the reigning star at all. We
did get better operate whOles in our first
days of opera, when those Havana troupes
were here, and when it was entirely Italian,
| although the repertoire has been enriched
since opera became more polyglottic. But
! in the character of performance there has
been a steady process of deterioration ever
since We presume nothing but perma-
nent establishment, for which democracy i
not yet ready, can ever give US excellent
and complete opera. The flying visits we
now get from trOupes made up for specula-
| tive purposes, and with the hope of reapng
| great golden profits in the shortest time and
in the cheapest way, of course are govern
ed by very different economy from that
which regulates permanent good opera.
| The impresarios tell us that we cannot have
it otherwise that they lmust pay the lead
| ing artists double their European price to
| induce them to cross the ocean and take the
risks of strange climate and the perpetual
wear and tear of singing every night and
travelling from state to state that they
must pay for a first-class opera house, say
our Boston theatre, as much rent per night
as they would pay for a whole week at Co.
vent Garden, with two hundred of the best
(stockholders') seats taken out and sold
against them with three or four times the
expense for advertising that they would
have in Europe; and that for all this the
economy must fall on chorus, orchestra.
or subordinate parts, and all that goes to
make up the perfect ensemble which seems
now past hope with us. Yet managers and
prima ponnas manage to carry away gener-
Gus profits from their American seasons
Dcight's Journal Of Mus'e.
F.. C. Packard the well-known singer of
Boston is to receive 50 500 year to sing in
! Christ Church, New York.
Paris talks of Il theatre to hold 90 900
people and realize &c, 900 francs at each rep
resentation, an income which would allow
the engagement of /" stars for the whole
company, even to the =" supes.''
Henri Apply, the eminent violinist, is said
to have discovered musical prodigy at
Niagara Falls in the person of boy named
Dosenbach, and has taken charge of him.
The lad has appeared in one or two concerts
at Rochester and greatly astonished critical
ears.
Max Strakosch promises brilliant opera
season next winter. His troupe will in
clude, among other artists, Nilsson. Capoul
Campanini, Maurel (baritone), Annie Cary
and Mile. Lauriani. 1t is his intention to
give for new operas, Lohengrin- and
Verdi's " Aida Maretzek will also pro-
baby be in the field with Lucca
The original Ravels are all alive, but the
youngest is over sixty. When the troupe
was last in the United States, two Young
ladies, one well-known belle of Ohio,
were riding in a car, and wished to open
the window near them. They failed, and
one suggested asking the aid Of an old gen
tleman sitting in the seat next behind them.
" Oh, no, responded the other, % don't
trouble the old man." To their astonish-
ment, this aged individual rose, stepped IN
the aisle, and then turned sumersault for
ward and then one backward After this
he made another bow, and then threw up
the window. This was Gabriel ReveI, aged
| seventy.