, 1876-11-12

blackmailer, and Engel, the critic calls Mills,
the pianist, a liar.
Charles Adams, the Boston tenor, has taken
Hamburg By storm.
Mr.. S. B. Mills will be the 6oloist at the first
Cincinnati Orchestra Concert
Minnie Hauck has made brilliant rentree as
1uarqa77te and Aida at Berlin.
Mile Aimee is going to marry NJ. Darcy, a
member OF her opera company.
CampaDini, with Moriami and Castelmary. has
been singing in g 'Lohengrin'' at Trieste
The Bayreuth performances have, It is Of
1cially stated, resulted in loss Of nearly e. 0O0
Schumann's s'Gcnovcva' is to be shortly pro-
duccd at the Berlin Opera, with Frau Millinger
in tue principal part.
It is announced that Mime. Anna Bishop is to
give Il series Of twelve concerts at the diamond
diggings of the Cape Of Good Hope.
1t is stated that Oifenbach's next opera will
be founded on Jules Vernc's tale, "Dr. Ox's Ex-
pertinent" The principal part is to be played By
Madame Judic.
Nine. Jenny Lind Goldschmidt has earned
10000 crowns for the Stockholm Academy of
Liberal Arts, which is to be applied for the
benefit OF needy students.
Albani is to sing at the Theatre-Italien Paris,
In January aud February, 1877 She will appear
in "Lucia," sLinda,'' ala Sonnanbula, y
"Rigoletto," II Puritani," and "Don Juan."
At recent soires dinyitation given in Paris BY
Al. lie Marquis aud Nine. LII Marquise dc Caux,
Cimarosas trio from the 's Matrimono" was
sung by the three sisters, Adelina, Amelia, aud
Carlotta Patti.
The literary works OF Robert Schumann,
translated by Fanny Raymond Rittcr,-who
has done so much service Of this sort to music
al ltcraturc,-:lre soon to he published sitnul-
taucously in England and America-
Lucca's concert tour in Germany is total
failure. She has applied to the English courts
for new trial to set aside the verdict of S25,-
600 damages to which sue was condemned for
the violation OF her engagement with Gye.
Offenbach's "Voyage en- Amerique, with u
preface by Albert Wolff. the musical critic OF
Lc Figaro, has been completed. It has, says
Partisan runor, been purchased by q foreign
{query, American . paper, which will publish it
as feulllcton.
Gounod has promised to NJ. Carvalho the
speaking, musical sketch in two acts, in which
the greater part Of Molicrc's dialogue has been
retained, as in the case of the =" "Medecin Dlalgre
lut," adapted BY the same composer.
The two weeks season Of the Kellogg En-
glstrOpcra Company in Philadelphia was re-
1narkablc one. The receipts for eight perform
ances reached the high figure Of Al300, Of
which the Bohemian Girl'' may be credited
with Sc, 500 and the North Star u with s., 600.
The production in England by Mr.. Carl Rosa's
English-Ope1a Company Of Nicolo's old opern,
s'Joconde," has recalled q once very popular
ballad, 'sWe hnvc lived and loved together"
the melody OF which was stolen bodily from
Nicolo's work The air iu "Joconde" is called
"Dans un delire extreme"
Some little excitement has been caused in dra-
matte circles in London by the refusal OF So
prano songstress to sing in Verli's opera s. La
Traviata," :" on the ground that Viotctta is an i'm
proper character. This Is rather a serious mat
ter, for if our songstrcsses and actresses should
become thus prudish how would it be possible
to put "Don Giovanni " on the stage!
Gye, Of Covent Garden, has been spending
several days in Paris, and an arrangement has
been concluded between him and Ulllnnu, as the
representative Of Nine. Materna, by which the
latter engages to sing in London next May aud
June. She is to make her debut in the s'Tann-
hauscr,' and will then appear successyely in
"Lohengrin, ''Fidelio," and the " "Africaine."
Mr.. Carl Rosa's speculation in English opera
at London is still remunerative, although the
revival Of s:Zanipa" " has not been as great a
hit as was expected. Mr.. SantlcY is not IL very
good voice this year. It is said that he has been
suffering severely from quinsy. "The Bohe-
mian Girl' was presented recently for the
debut Of Miss Cora Stuart, a young lady who
promises to become valuable addition to the
limited number Of opcratic singers.