The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-09-24

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run back to their rooms, astonished at each
others presence The serenader again
| takes up the strain with renewed vigor
and fondly asks Zone smile from thee
The chorus joins in at intervals with "The
hour of love is near" Lucrezia reappears
and reafllrms her idea that the "tender
swain" and serenader are one, Isabella re-
itcrates her suspicion that it is the cavalier,
and lnez expresses herself in loving tones
that it must be none but her own Carlno.
| Then all advance cautiously to the win
dow and meet Here is exhibited consd
cradle anger on the part of Donna Iucrezia
and embarrassment on the part of Isabella
and Inez. Isabella ''only came 10 take the
air, while Inez "wanted some light exer-
cisc.' The Donna, however, thinks her
self not quite so blind and says ''some
secret yet remains behind The girls are
very humble, but finally ask why their
mamma is there
This leads to neat and highly amusing
| trio-"You Slucy Jade" Il real, down.
right feminine quarrcl-in which the old
lady commands them to retire and TIE
girls very pertly address their mama in
language hardly tolerated by good Puritan
mothers of We olden time. l.. bella at last
gets to sobbng and declares herself poor.
unhappy maid, while Inez can only see the
drollerv of the situation and laughs ac-
cordingly. Don Carlos, impatiently, is
still heard outside and the chorus rrolong
the sound, "Wake. lady, wake
The scene then changes and Isabella ap-
pears in the charming solo, ale still was
there" This is followed with sclo by
Inez, when u lover is poor" which is be-
witchng in composition and music. Both
then appear in the duet away despair
Doctor Paracclsus then shows himself to-
gcther with Perez and Sancho who bring
in Il large basket and look very mysterious.
Perez produces letter which is for Isa-
bella. The girls retire to read it. Perez
and Sancho depart, having accomplished
their mission, while the Doctor Is left in a
wonder as TO what the basket contains He
finally goes for knife to open it and Don
Carlos releases himself from the confine-
mcnt of the basket and sings the beautiful
aria cloves cruel dart" Hearing some
one coming he again retreats within the
basket Just as Donna LucreZia enters She
sings the ballad, "The Knight of Alcan-
tara" Then she raises the lid and let's out
the gay cavalier. Then occurs the duet
between the two, II love, l love-" after
which speaking conversation is had be.
tween them in which the Donna expresses
her feal that her husband may come while
Carlos divulges his love for certain per
son in the house, and hides himself at the
entrance of Inez, the Doctor and Isa5ella
, who take away the basket and subsequent
ly lose it in the water. The night watch
alarmed at the screams of Inez, attempt
to enter in the name of the king,
and scene of some excitement occurs
: Next appears upon the scene Senior Hip
J polite PompOso, who delivers himself of 1
rousing bass solo, which is one of the bes
and most satisfying compositions of thu
whole opera. All hands attempt to OK
, plain the screams, and the chorus join il
the idea that "a cry of pain was yer.
plain" The succeeding solo of Pompos'
and his obligato with Lucrezia, Isabella
and the chorus is very fine. The Docto
joins in, and the quartette "Come away
ends the first act
The second and closing act commences
after an interlude by the orchestra, with
trio "Senor, senor," by Don Carlos, tn
Doctor and Inez, combining splendid solo
. from each part, and in which Don Carlo
I discovers himself to them. Then follow
I a conversation between them, in the mids
0 of which Senior Balthazar appears. Afte
b he retires upon the lounge solos occur fror
Donna Lucrezia, Inez and Isabella an
t the Doctor, after which the most amusin
n scene of the play takes place between Ba
c thazar and the rest, ending in the disco,
cry of Don Carlos, who sings with Isabel
!, the finale, "Hope ever smiling"
e DRAMATIs PERsoNE.
y, Donna LucIezr.........Mr Mrs. j. S. Halbel
" Donna Isabella ........... Miss Ella Olmste
+ lnez. ... ...............M Miss Hattie Edso
Doctor Paracelsus Mr.. Geo @. Da
il Don Carlns..,.... ........ Mr. J. C. Colin
Senior Bathazar. MIR. G. d. Millngto
Don iippolito Pomposo.. Mr.. +. Nj. Day
ferez and Sancho. minimum.
t. Messrs. Cobb and Kingsle
The rendition of the opera was made
success by the very satisfactory Singh
and acting of every member of the cas-
the effectiveness of the chorus and Il
ot marked efficiency of the orchestra. I'll
-, chorus was composed of Mrs Mietzke, Mr.
), H. w. Kingsley. Miss FANNIE Eastma
~ Miss Clara Ruggles, Mr.. :. II. Parkhurt
:, The orchestra did spendidly, the accor
=, paniment of Miss Joyce upon the pial
being simply perfect, while the vioins, &C
net and cello combined to make up ,
orchestra rarely heard IN country vlllag
,o Space forbids extended criticism or me
.r ton Of the different characters represent
,is and we defer any personalities until
m next issue, when the second representa-
lis will have been given. We must mento
of howeyec, that the voice and appearance
an Mr.. Collins, who comes from Boston
assume the role of Don Carlos, is simr
superb and in which there seems nothi
lacking. His voice reminds us of the
he voritc Fessenden, smooth, clear and fl
to IDLE, while his appearance upon the sta
w is very prepossessing, being easy and uni
suming,