, 1874-01-25

them this remuneration. II tho houses were
small, and the view discouraging, the amount
paid would not seem e1trnvagaut, but ANYBODY
OF either sex would be glad enough to get i viow
OF the whole audience. aud be for once tho OBJ
served Of all observers at 50 per look. These
tritles amount to heavy suns toward tho close OF
! the week.
| opEnA11c TROUBLES.
| An idea Of opefatic troubles may be gathered
| from the following nccount OF row in New York.
The Italian members Of the company became
Jealous of tho French; Campanlni, Aannetti,
Del Puente, md Maresi could not be got to agree
with Capoul, 3farel, Toriani, aud Nils
son the two Litter disagreed as
to their relative merits Us singers. and Maurel
| aud Campanini were similarly aniable toward
| one another; Canpanini took pleasure in oc-
| cupyine q proscenium box on Capouls nights,
| and laughing aud hooting himself into q hoarse-
| that in the most pathetic part of the opera,
| when Capoul's peculiarly sympathetic quality Of
voice bad wrought upon the audience to an un-
| expected degree, howl OF scornful laughter
| would issue from the box. and bleak the magic
spell. There WAS no installing the author.
Capoul was too much Of a gentleman to retaliato
! in kind, but having borne it kindly for long
time be was compelled to declare that he would
not sing it his rival wero allowed in the
! house. Campauini would not sing. if he we're
not; the Indies wero not on speaking terms;
Madame Nilsson WIS ''3ick " very often, and
would not get well again. She was as'scn: for
week when the company WAS in Philadelphia,
aud ruined business in that city. Indeed it
seemed Us il anarchy had broken loose among
tho people Of fine laryn1cs. Mr.. Strakosch and
his Secretary, Fryer, succeeded in establishing
peace. The petty jcaloueles OF dramatic
company a,e bad enough, but in opera they are
unendurable. How things wcro righted nobody
seems to know. In fact everybody WAS
engaged in quarrel with everybody else
except Miss Cary, who endeayorcd to second
the managers efforts to restore peace.
Is there was no jealousy OF 1or
III the company, er mediations probably led to
better state OF affairs, and saved her from
being involved in trouble. It seems as though
vocal culture wns achieved at the expense OF
moral development In many cases, the one bright
exception in this, the best operate company now
existing, apparently proving tue rule.
SKETCHES OF MEMBERS.
The Drooklyn Sunday Sun gives u sketch Of
several members Of the company. Campanini's
unpublished appearance, at hia first rehearsal III
Now York. caused him to be stopped from going
on the stage by the chief Of supers, who thought
ho recognized in hun companion fgurant at
50 cents day. His Ignorance OF any Ian
guage but his own, and his consequent
inability to explain Mattess resulted
in his expulsion from the theatre. This
plenty Of anecdotes to be told about every mem
ber of the company, but there is not space to
give them, even if it wcro desirable to do SO.
The intelligent reader will readily understand
that such stories do not, as rrlo, reflect credit
upon the persons of whom they are related,
and, as the object Of the present article il to
give information rather than wound the fcel-
ineb OF strangers, We 1etrnln from giving pub
licity to them.