The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-02-03
HlR MAJEsTY's OPERA.
A Brilliant Opening Last Night-xagnih-
cent Audience and Exquisite Music.

A Brilliant Opening Last Night-xagnih-
cent Audience and Exquisite Music.
People who have not seen much Of
winter gladly faced it last night to be pres
ent at the opening of the season Of Italian
opera BY Her Msjesty's Opera Company.
The Grand has seldom held as large and as
brilliant an audience of really cultured
people as assembled there last night. The
seats were filled, and many were glad even
of good position to stand and enjoy the
music
The audience was an elegantly dressed one
and glance over it met pretty and ami
mated sight
For the first appearance of singer whose
voice is so purely lyrical and whose stage
action is SO idyllic and statuesque, the
opera La Sonnambula" is happily adapt
ed. There is q repose about the entire
work-the music as we'll as dramatic action
that charms by its very refinement The
absence of any impressive climaxes in the
score or plot is made up by lhe peculiar
grace of the whole composition. The opera,
when it is well cast and we'll performed, is
q picture, delicate in the thought present
ed and warm and sympathetic in its music.
al coloring. The whole interest," Of
course, centered in the debut of Mari
mon, who has been widely heralded as
great artist. And in this instance her fore
runners have not misrepresented facts.
She is great artist She has pure lyric
soprano, not wide in compass, but round
in timbre. Its beauties are the high state
of cultivation which has been reached, its
sweet quality and her extremely refined
manner of using it Mile. Marimon is an
unusual executant Her voice Is very
agile, and her intonations mathematically
perfect Her method is delightful study
by itself. Her voice is without a flaw to
break the perfect symmetry. Every note,
every pose, every movement, pleases be-
cause of the refinement and finish which
they all display. Marimon is thorough
artist Comparisons between her and
Gerster are naturally drawn.
Gerster takes the audience by storm with
herremarkable voice. MarimOn shows wider
and larger experience and more thor
0ugh cultivation. She wins the audience
instead of storming it. Campanini as EEL
vino." and Del Puente as the Count"
proved much finer support than Gerster
had last season. Campanini sang as we'll
as ever-is just as unconcerned on the
stage and proved just as great favorite.
The audience was enthusiastic, but not
more so than the occasion deserved. Four
hearty recalls is not often rendered Dy an
audience as critical as that of last night.
But every one was thoroughly earned.
The duet and finale of Mile. Marimon
and Campanini. at the close of the first act,
and the closing effort "Ahl non giunge,"
will not be soon forgotten. They were the
remarkable passages Of remarkable even
ing.
No less satisfactory than the leading ar
lists was the chorus Not only the largest
but it was by all odds the finest trained
body OF singers we have ever heard on the
operate stage. A Cincinnati audience
knows good chorus singing, and it must be
fine body indeed to win such praise as
was given last night This evening the pro-
duction of Verdi's chef d'9uvre, Aida, ,
with entire new scenery, dresses and decor
ationa
Rhadames. ..-..................Signo Campanini
uahesA
Herr beirens
| Amneris s......... Miss Annie Louise Cary
Nine. Emile Ambre
(her first appearance.)