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brought 10 this country, has boon very sucooaa.
ful at tho London Musical Union ooucerts.

brought 10 this country, has boon very suoooaa.
'o' ~ tho London Musical Union coucsrts.
Mlsa oIara DORM, noprono William Tcsaou~
uoh, tot1or, ana !. T. ltulo1phApn, bassa, nrv
ocngnRod for noxt soaHun with Camilla Uraoa
troupe.
Miss T)olotta Colvlllo IN expected IN New York
noxs mouth, aud will mike hor oporatlo debut iu
tina falt.
l1onry Bonawitz. n musician OF phila1elrh.a,
and fatlior df j. II. Do11hw,tx, tho cp,n1w3or OF
!" The Driaa Of McAs.an," died in that city las.
weull.
4 portion OF Tho manuscript Of Webara
'Oheson " has for h long Ams bnan missing ut
the Impartial Library, ST. Petersburg, from tho
rebt OF tho composers score. 1t hAa Just boon
soathu Ill stray c0rl'ar, atsd tho valuable doou-
moa'i Ii agatn complete.
While tlln reporters of twonty 1'arfslan papcra
wero liatotfng With onon cars tn Vertl's requiem
soino Fronchlnen outside, wl.o wantoa to Eut
rlaccsa Bproad n run,or tint the Louvre was on
haAtcncd out to Hco thu sight. This made nix
teen stalls yacant, which the practical jokors
appropriated.
Some discussion haH takan place In the paris
pRpeCH III to whether Roshini over begnn Ill
ope'a on tlio H,bioct Of Faust" Lo Aenesfret
says TINT the mastor skatchod tho acenarium.
ndopt,hg tbs principal situations Of Noetl,e's
A. stall ticket at Flor MaIcstys Opora for Nils
aon'H rst i,igllt III tic opera Of "Ihe 1allsman"
cont Mt tie D1x .otlco three g1ltloas. and lilo
sl,eculatorS ran their stock up to seyen Euineas
Whom Loadon consents to pay from SIS to 915
III gold for MT orchestra seat to hear Nilsson,
E!.rolT American otera-goors cannot complain OF
the 81 tariff
full slloss rchoassal Of ualfoH .'TaIlyn,ano at
CoTeut Garden, London. At tho end Of tile re-
llearanl lio sont for 9tmo. Datfo, tho widow Of
to COMPOSER, and after OPP ossing tho grAsi'lca-
tion lie had dertyad from tho performance, ao-
coptod Tho dodication Of tho work.
u Is announced By n contemporary that Nine.
Atlollna Patti lus just signed +! csh ongago-
mint for st. Petersburg for nn1t Wintur. Stle is
to get ESQ, ,ou9fg. for tho se~sou. It is not I'M
probable, in the ovont Of Mr.. Strakosch keeping
tho 1talionH for another year, That MMe. Patti
will oncn the ueaEou for him prior to Aer depAr-
turo fol tho Russian capital.
pacini'a opera OF 'satro," popular laore ion
or twelve years ago with Gazzapjga IN the prin-
uipa1 part, has boon roviyed at 1oghorn, with
casion OF her benefit, slgnora Forni, besides
performed IIayln's ,"aouyauir," with quar.etto
accompaniment.
Soma months bnok tho Municipality Of Brrga-
mo exhumod tho body Of Donlzutti 10 transfer It
from tile 1hM1ly tomb OF tito Ie2H0ll4 TO tn0
cemetery. 1t was found that a portion Of tho
skull was missing. III fact, tho surgeon iutrllst-
cd with the post norton examination hal re-
moved 1t. On lis death it pasaed into tt,a hands
of hla nephew, who converted It into money
box. Tlo municipality have taken proceedings
against him. aud he has handed over the relic,
which will 10 deposited IN the st. Mary Major
Church.
Ono critio-he Of the AMcnran'-tlinks that
Dalfe, in "TAe Taliamau." "alsnod at q tra1,s-
formation Of style as regards orclostration, vet
Aia Mayerbeer and Wagner etlectH are often
crude aud ttncouth; tAoro is much running
about with tho wood aud brass, but tho Objects
ais overloaded AMI exaggerated. Whenever
and wl,oroyor Balfe resorts to his natural n,an-
nor, Tint is, dopomds u,ain(y on Ills inoxhaustt-
bio vein Of melody with simple accompani
ulents, ho in limssif, and in bis trueas and beHt
1nooa,h
The american Register, Paris, Hays: "Spoak.
Ing Of tho new Opera House, 1t il stRtcd that some
experiments have boon successfully tried with .
new plan for moving tile Btaga-soensry by means
Of electricity! 1t IL said to accomplish all the
necessary tranBpositlouB with prn,nptitude atlG
popularity that IL wonderful and that will enn-
bio tho director TO do nwny with large proper
tion Of the personnel Tint Ia now employed be
hind tho scency. Tho motor and basis Of tht
syatenl ls sall to be the electromagnetic n,nche
OF III, American Inventor, Plof. Hughes. but tht
plan itself is entirely new, and han never before
beon applied to stage purposes"