New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-07-28
NINE. NELSON'S TRIUMPHS.

TO APPEAR IN OPERA AT MADRID-MADAME
NILSSON SENDS AN AFFRCTIoNArE MESSAGE TO
AMERICANS. AND PROMISES TO BE HERE NEXT
YEAR.
IRON THE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF THE rRrBUyE1
LONDON. July 16-Madame Christine Nilsson
babe farewell to the London public this afternoon,
making her last appearance for the season in con-
cert at Albert Hall Her departure is one of many
signs that the Summer nears Its end What Is
called the regular season ct Her Maesty's Theatre
has already closed-the period Of subscriptions Of
guinea stalls of fashionable audiences, and of bril-
liant toilets. Mr.. Mapeson longer prints
on his tickets the stern warning, "evening
dress Indispensable You may 20 In O shoot
ingJacket, If you like, and ladies have
the inestimable privilege Of appearing in
bonnets. 1t must be said that to the male mind 1T
has sometimes been difficult to draw distinction
between bonnets and the strange headgear which
the British female permits herself to wear in the
evening. The thing itself is not strange it is only
strange that she should msconceiye the of it.
These smart turbans and caps are French in origin.
The Englishwoman buys them in Paris, very likely,
but does not know what to do with them. They
are morning caps. The Frenchwoman wears them at
home with pei gnoir in the morning or after
noon. Her British friend thinks them too pretty
for domestic use and adorns her head with them
when In full evening dress. But this Is an aside.
/ was saying that Madame Nilsson had been heard
for the last time this year In London. Her farewell
appearance In opera was on Monday evening in
"MignonD The house was densey crowded.
speak In part from hearsay, but was absent only
because on Monday 1t had become impossible to get
place at any price In any part of the house. AT
the theatre. application for seats was met with
SMILE At two or three agents was told that they
had been turning people away all day. Mig
non" has proved unexpectedly popular. 1t
has drawn tho two greatest houses OF the
year. and Mr. Mapleson must regret that
he did not bring it out earlier. believe said
word or two in O recent letter of Madame Missions
performance, but have since heard it praised with
an enthusiasm rare in London. She was in perfect
voice. and acted with a vivacity, charm, fresh
that made her Mignon the most admirable, from
dramatic point of view. OF her many admirable i'm
presentations.
A report has become current In America that
Madame Nilsson Is going to the United States this
Autumn. and Is to sing with Mr. Maple
sons company. UnluckIy for you, there
Is no truth in the story. She is not
going to America but to Spain, where
she has engagement to sing In Madrid for hfteen
nights during November and December, and per-
haps part of January. She leaves London next
week for Mont dor in France, in search of fresh
ar-as she expresses 1t, to get the London fog and
smoke out of her lungs, going thence perhaps to
one or two other watering places. At the end OF
September she returns, and will sing for week In
October In Brighton. Then she goes to Spain.
spending fortnight IN Paris on the road. when
her engagement is completed In Madrid, she Will
travel for some weeks in the South of Spain,
and will be back in Lordon again In time for
the beginning of the opera-season Of 1880. Proba-
bly, she will accept short engagement from NJ.
Vaucorbell at the Grand Opera in Paris before the
Spring opono at Her MaJestyo Theatre, II So 1t will
be to create new part, and 1t Is In III. Ambrose
Thomas's francesca da Rmini" that she expects
to reappear before Partisan audience. You per-
ceive that this programme, most of which is def
ntely settled. leaves no opening for voyage to
New-York. Mr.. Mapeson's troupe sails in October,
and must be here again in London with the Spring.
Next year, however. in the Autumn OF 1880 you
may expect to see and hear Madame Nilsson once
more. 1t was not her wish to postpone her visit so
long, but circumstances left her no choice She is
as eager to see You again you to her. She
has the most vivid remembrance of her visit to the
United States of the friends she made there of the
attractions of the country, of the kindness she met
with. She was delighted with her immense popu-
larty She talks of America as the most patriotic
American might talk of il. To an American in Eu-
rope t delight to hear Madame Missions burst of
enthusiasm about his own country" the greatest,
the most beautiful country in the world" love the
Americans" she went on. Z" send them my love,
and beg them to understand that OH no account
would quit the stage without singing again In the
United States. am sorry cannot go this year, but
| cannot. They not to think 1t Is because do
not want to- long to see your country and your
people once more. Some of the dearest friends L
have In the world there-they are all my friends.
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want you to say SO. And don't forget to give
them my love and say shall be sure 10 go and see
them as soon as | can"
repeat imperfectly what Madame Nilsson was
good enough to say to me on this matter, and
wish could describe even imperfectly the mannerin
which ID was sand You have all seen her, except the
Youngest among you. You cannot have forgotten the
womanly charm which belongs to her. You can
imagine or recall, for yourselves her beauty for 1t
has hardly changed since 1t dazzed American audi
ences eight or nine years ago. She has become
Madame Nilsson-RouZaud since then. but, happy
and honorable as her marriage Is, she is Christine
Nilsson all the same for the art-lovlng world. You
should see the deep-set eyes light up as she talks
of you, and the radiant sweetness of her face
when it Is flushed with the pleasant memories that
the name of America brings back to her. She
dlscourses on those days with frank simplicity,
On utter sincerity and heartlness OF feeling that
would touch the least susceptible OF her admirers
Madame Nilsson is an actress, certainly ana great
actress. but she is not acting when she speaks of
her affection for her friends and her public beyond
the sea- never heard anything more genuine or
more beautiful In it's kind.
Her popularity in London. in Paris, and through
out Europe is what it has always been. Whatever
may be the case elsew here in Paris she Is the most
admired of living singers, and her throne has never
been shaken Needless to say that Paris considers
it's own verdict on point of art final, 1t was to
Madame Nilsson that Paris appealed to open the new
Grand Opera. She was then In Russia. Grateful for