Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-12-08
THE RADIENT ROZE.
Grand Outpouring of the Culture, Beauty
and Fashion to Welcome the New Prima
Donna, Last Evening-"Globe" Analysis
of the Entertainment.


and Fashion to Welcome the New Prima
Donna, Last Evening-"Globe" Analysis
of the Entertainment.
An immense house, and good tempered
one, greeted the Roze-Mapleson company
last evening. more fashionable audience
has not filled the house for some time.
From the parquette to the gallery there was
one unbroken mass of well dressed people,
and, among them, the leading musicians and
the best amateur talent of the city. It was
evident that the audience had come fully
prepared to be pleased and fully impressed
with the worldwide fame of the prima donna.
This, with the good temper they were in,
from being fortunate enough to possess
seats, perhaps accounts in measure for the
warm reception given to each member of the
company, and must most certainly account
for the encore accorded Brignoli in his first
number. The voice was hard, worn, weak,
thin, without sympathy or expression. The
gentleman has been suffering for several
days from severe cold and indisposition,
winch may In measure account for
the indifferent singing of both his numbers.
But then it was Brignoli, and the people ap.
plauded. Mr.. A. 81. Pease deserved all the
applause given his piano solos. His touch
IS firm, elastic and brilliant, his reading &C
curate and phrasing excellent. His encore
to his second number was splendid display
of technique.
Mr.. w. L. Cartoons most successful num-
Der was the song 'Nancy Lee" (Adams)
which received most vociferous encore.
Mr. Carlton is good baritone, with pleas
ing, sonorous, safe voice, we'll schooled; but
1t should not be trusted too much with notes
properly belonging to a first tenor.
Mr.. Mark Kaiser's fantasia
and cayatina showed him to be
ylo1nist of no ordinary skill and culture.
lie was encored in both numbers, the must
clans especially applauding his msritorious
rendition of RATS Cavatina.
Of course these were only preliminary to
the real event of the evening; they were like
the soups and entries at banquet-only
sharpening the appetite for the real feast;
like condiments to the substantials-
p1quency to the flavor; and the great feast
for eye and ear alike was Marie Roze. Marie
Roze, whom the critics love to honor, and in
whose praise, both of persona! and vocal
charms, the press has said so much. In re-
gard to her beauty, every word that has been
SAID is true-she is beautiful. 1t has
more gracefully than others. But Marie
Roze is the priml dona assoluta. 1t is but
truth to say, there were those at the Opera
House who were a little disappointed, but
then there were more who were agreeably
surprised. There were those who had ex-
pectancy worked to such pitch that they
knew not what they expected. But there
were good judges of good music there, and
those who can appreciate high art. Madam
Roze-M apleson's voice is not so powerful as
Carey's, but it is much sweeter; it is less
horld and resonant than Kellogg's, but it is
more liquid and melodious. Madam Roze's
lower notes are full and rich of mezzo
quality, while the upper register is a clear
soprano. But it is true what has been said
OF her, that the great charm of her
singing depends greatly upon her finely
chisled mouth and chin, the mobile features
and the wonderful expression which inter-
prets SO wildly the sentiment of the libretto.
Every number on the programme was en-
cored, and each encore but three were re
sponded to.