, 1880-02-29
cuy|iyan's New Opera, " The Pi.
rates Of Penzance.". :.
netails of the Forthcoming Re-
menyi Concerts. !:
.rhe Apollo Club and Beethoven
Societies Concerts.
nh. Grand German Benefit Concert to
Occur March 4.
rhe New Soprano for the Cincinnati
Festival, Miss SherMin.

r,anch opera-troupe has come and gone
;..s,,t .ns meeting with very remarkable recep-
w., ~ ochieying even ordinary success, and 1ts
uou w. ,r IN, taken at Havefly's this week by an
!p,Ds,sh p11s troupe. which will produce Sullivan's
,-.est o,era. 1.-The Pirates Of Penzance," COM
I.anc,no tomorrow evening. The plot OF The
anora IL said to be very amusing, and as 1uA OF
" odd fancies, and grotesquer1es as It's
n.oaecessor, - Pinaforc," while the music pos
soeses the same general characteristics OF tune
tr,ncss and brightness, Its great strength. now
erer. lying in the. choruses. That our readers
'sr oet an idea Of the story, we print the plot:
uos n:he hero Il a young man named Frederic, who
ln tnTr1,sted to a nurse In early childhood to be
sMnMnS,anticct} WI to a pilot The good woman made
slight mistake s11d the poy WAS @ nrRay iusn, ~
4ld ErE,rsc torn by conflicting emotions, 1oathtng
the trade Of theft and pllage, yet doing violence
to bis natural impulses IN stern m aoenty e 70 re
9sns 9es~ns and the surprising complications which
eae,,t fr,m his strange situation are treated
viii the greatest ingenuity. The opera Is ~ n
1sp 1s,1 and when the action begins FREDERIC Is
i.t,n nn few hours OF the end Of his apprentice
ehn 1t Il O'Clock he will be q years Of age.
BE informs the band tnaI hg u apons 70 +;aT7
~ .nomrades: he detests them"as pirates, and
u ~ - hfs purpose to devote the remainder
II II . his existence to their determination.
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thair high-wntsted and shorI-skirted gowns, and
tSeir iroad hats as pretty as picture 6y Gains
f.or1uch. come tripping over the rocks, and pre-
pore 10 amuse. themselves by padding IN the
mar alarm Is piquantly expressed in d hopping
thor1,s The discovery that all these girls are
= Wards, in Chancery and the. daughters of
usior-Gencral' is quickly followed by the ap-
,,asEance Of their military papa This parsonage
Ree Ieen supplied with rafting :. patter-song,
III Thich can hardly fail Of great effect Studded
NIX With scientific terms Of uemendous length
md dff6culty, it recou1ts the accomplishments
~ the distinguished officer, who seems to be
tSasnnouehly y yersed in astronomy. mathematics.
reI,,raf history, and nearly all the branches OF
sc;ente except indeed, in military affairs. The
TanId delivery OF this song is occasionally inter
-1;nted in a highly llldicrOus manner BY the Cen
erai's hesitation for a rhyme
The second act passes In @ ruined chapel oy
,nonn.irht. Therc is a chorus ct policemen
drrssed in the uniform Of the British - bobby,
and armed with clubs, upon which, being drawn
IN in line across the stage, they perform, as
refra,n to song, a sort of tar-an~ tara, Q
rn,m1uet-calj before marching to battle with the
n,rstes There is an admirable burlesQue upon
sari0us opera in scene where the pirates are
hidden in one aisle OF the chapel and the police
men in another, while the Major General with
his daughters occupy tho nnve.
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