The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1880-02-19
ADJUSTMENTS.
Academy Of Music.

Tho enrnpement of the EvaDaelina Gombina
tIon IA rapidly drawing to a cloaa, and there re-
,naina hut two or three opportunities to 500 the
compeuy in ia entertaining performance 81
Conrad the Coraair.
Thia extravaganza will ha repeated nightly
and will aleo be presented at the Saturday ma.
tnee.
sunday evening the Weatbersby Goodwin
Froljauep open In Hobbies. a production which
has been we'll received everywhere.
GRAND orERA HOUSE.
Until laat evening We we're not aware that
Donegati the immortal COMPOSER ~ Lurta
had composed the Daughter Of the Regiment IN
collaboration With negro minatrel ballad and
other song writ ra. II had been reserved "a
the famous Abbott Company ~ inform na n
the fact We can zee In our imagination many
Of our readers emile ~ the. n'teranna " THE
assertion: but etoce Mics Emma Abbott, NE
leader 9f thn company hae been mar' s.a h =,
living muaical geniuaes ~ the age, and thu
aha aaya a.. wo muat humhly bow before aurh
compey"nt au,hn,ty ann nmr ,,na,,, ~ M
Ing told that they 40 not know what thoy are
thinking about.
tho Emma Abbott Opera Company not only
with bping unrnnaciantions. but more. with
einE or All. and who have not the least raapect
for Tho art they profess ~ cultivate or the pub
lic they pretend 10 entertain.
The ATTEMPT I'd present tue Daughter of the
Regiment was u musical murder from begin
ming III end, and 4 aiaEraca the Grand Opera
Hnuaa and ~ ~ patrons and AL tha y"irs ~
Marie the tranaposiionR. omissions and inter-
polatinns of herself and ot the other singers.
the rlnane and papernE 81 the house cannot
make II otherwise.
atnR al all ana II would nave haaD rleaanro
10 the cultivated ear If aha had not sung II the
second which was however. necessary to give
,,ti mn nnnDrtMnltv a met nh
the exquisite singing lasaon into song AMI
dance net. And would II be believed the
charming duo or the frat act was substituted
~ a commonplace duet. which, # we rcemam-
Der we'll. begins with words like those. since
once loved thee" And yet this was not all
might have been curtailed with propriety. de
flying the rules Of common modesty. thrust
upon the audience q cong which we think y on
l. that alp No. IN order to improve upon
the science Of music. Misa Abbott has the vuI
Known negro minst rel ballad. Way Down upon
de Suwanee River" once more proving that.
without resortlng e trinksry and , Sharlatan
ton which she claims Tor hersei' or being an
opera singer. ,
We will not say anything OF the elimination
the second act q the opera. nor OF the lowering
Of the King In the 'Salut a la France" by Miss
Abbott for we think that We nave ; sa1h enough
lie that we are positively serious In our appre-
citation of the Abbott company. always except
ing Mrs SaEuin whom we will ever take pains
not 10 confonud with the farcica performers
who have invaded the Grand Opera House. !,
To might the company will present dounod's
Romeo and Juliet. a musical failure pfr So
and we cannot promise our friends that II will
not be intarspersed with Lucy Neal. Oh
Savannah" and other similar sentimental ne
grn bal lads.
We are told. NJ a late hour. that this theatre
will be closed next week. the engagement q
the young Hamlet who waa TO have appeared
there, being off for some reason not asoer'
tanned