Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-07-04
MUSIC AND IRE DRAMA.

/ Barnum's Hippodrome has taken
possession Of Toronto, G. w.
Signor Rossi will make his first ap-
pearance IN England next fall
Rubenstein's oratorio, sThe Tower
of Babel" has met with. success in
Paris.
John Broughsn will be a member
Of Days Fifth Avenue company next
season.
New Workers go nightly in crowds of
from 10000 to $1,000 TO hear Gilmore's
music.
Wallack's Theater will reopen early
IN August with an English comic opera
company.
List has been offered fabulous sums
to come to this country, but he re-
fuses all.
The performance of Verdi's Requiem
Mass In Vienna has aroused great en-
4 thusiasm.
Miss Nelson viii appear, at the
Gaity, London, IN a new play, founded
On one of the poems Of Tennyson.
The Park Theater, New York, is
| pres entity 20 be made vocal by the
warnings Of Mrs. Oates and her COM
pany Of comic opera singers.
The Leipsic Theater has Just def
nitely adopted the French diapason.
An amateur of that city has taken on
himself the cost Of the modification.
Nine Janauschek leaves for Aus
tralia next month on a tour, which viii
/ embrace India and China and termi.
nate at the Haymarket Theater, Lon
don.
During the summer, only seven Paris
| theatres viii remain open-the Opera,
the Francois, Porte ST Martin, Gate,
Vaudeville, Palais Royal, and Gym
nase.
Miss Ada Cavendish will be the next
English actress We viii be called up
on to adore. She has made a London
success as Mercy MeTTick in the New
Magdalen.
1t turns out that all the music of the
two unpublished operas Of Donizetti,
recently discovered, is already familiar
to the public, having been used by the
composer in other works.
Gounod, and his sharp, shrewd
'friend," Mrs. Weldon, have quarelled;
and she has entered actions against
him IN the French law courts for
breach of contract and for libel.
Mime. Sardou has presented to her
husband, the eg0tistical author of
Uncle Sam, what viii make him
write more plays for moneys sake. He
is gloatIng over a small daughter.
Mile. Tietiens Is the last Of the great
dramatic singers II opera Of the Pasta
and GTisi order, and her promised visit
to TINS country II the fall will be an
attraction Of no ordinary interest.
Mr. jefferson sailed for England, on
WEDNESDAY. accompanied by his family.
He intends to act ia London. next Au-
tumn, rs Rip Van Wnkle, and subse-
quently t. MAKE a pleasure trip on the
continent.
The Princess de Metternich would be
considered very clever Ia amateur
tueatricals even # she were not very
great lady. She las a daughter who Is
almost equally renowned on the draw
IuE room stage.
Verdi Is said by writer q makeone
think OF Samson. He Is tall and very
broad shouldered, with large features,
q high forehead, and laughing gray
eyes. H has the frank, social man
uers Of a man Of the world.
Teunys9n wrote Queen Mary for
the stage after all. It is 10 be acted at
the Lyceum Theatre. London, next
winter, with Henry Irving and Mrs.
Bateman in the leading roles. 1t is
not unlikely % be produced N this
country next season.
Round the World in Eighty Days
has met with unusual success, a. may
be seen from tie number Of perform
ances 1t has had IN EuTOpe:-Paris,
$50 times; Brussels, $50 times; Lon
don, 100 .im, s; Berlin, go times;
Vienna, 200 times; St. Petersburg, 50
times; Warsaw, 90 times, and it Is IN
preparation In C0nstantinOple.
The success of ''Lohengrin'' has been
quite as marked at DruTy Lane as at
COvent Garden. TIE hest Of the solo
parts, 10y common consent, seems to
have been the Ortrud Of Nile. Titiens,
to which all the critics award the very
highest praise. About Mile. Missions
Elsa there is the widest diversity Of
opinion.
The ObcrammeTgau Passion Play
only takes place once in ten years; con
seuuehtly, world renowned as it is,
many people miss seeing it. II.
/ Schneider is travelling about In order
to make this spectacle better known.
| The Passi0us-spielerh have passed with
Great success through Bavaria and
part of Austria, and are continuing
| their route through Northern Germany.
Mario, the popular tenor, is at pres
ent in Paris. He IS a native of the
( Island Of Sardinia, where his father,
the Marquis de Gambia, held the APP
poinment Of Yiceroy, when the young
| officer Of the guards embraced his ar
ristic career. Since his final with
! drawal from the stage the present Mar.
ouis resides at Naples, where he occu-
pies himself with business affairs and