The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1880-03-07
THE STAGE.
Music and the Drama New Plays Produced
and Old Tavorites Revived.
FOREIGN.

FOREIGN.
Drink made for dooch a. Reade 100000
during It's run at the Princess Theatre. Lon
don.
Jules verne's Michael Strogoff is being
drAmatized by D'Ennery, and will be played
this year.
AT the Renaissance LIE Duo du Windsor,
an opera eomiQue, by LecocQ, Is announced
for the coming season. The librettlsts are
Neilhac and Halevy.
A new play by native dramatist Of Ice
land 10 beautifully entitled "SiRriden Eyvjag-
jordansol."
"A prize has been offered ut Frankfort-on-
the Main for the best opera The judges are
Ferdinand Hitler, Joachim Raft and jain.
Miss Clara Louise Kellogg is still In Paris,
where she has been forced to remain on &C.
count Ok the sickness OF her mother.
Mr.. Samuel Frankie, violinist, late Of New
Orleans, and u pupil OF Joachim, OF Berlin,
gave q concert at the Sale Pleyel, Paris. last
week, with great applause.
In London there are 125 amateur and pro-
k0eSional choral and orchestral societies CIV
Kingdom there are upward OF 700 such socie-
ties.
II IL understood that the members Of the
Paris Opera ComiQue troupe will go to Lon
don In May or June, and give representations
1t Her Majesty's Theatre, alternating with
!Mr. MHpl06Ol lLhilhu tEOupe.
or the choral works given In Great Britain
last year those OF Handel head the list with
no performances, sixty Of which were Of the
messiah" Mendelssohn Is next, with sew
enty-four performances. twenty eight being
81 the elijah"
Musical Paris has been considerably startled
by the announcement Of the six Wagner con-
Judith Gautier. At these concerts, 1t appears,
the orchestra IL to be replaced by four pianos,
and there will be no chorus.
Richard Wagner is at present staying at
Naples, where he will probably remain some
months. His health Is said to be daily i'm
proving. During hts stay IOheDgrln will
moet likely be produced at the Naples Thea
TIRE. ~
A riot was imminent when the Haymarket
Theatre, In London, was reopened recently,
after the pit had been removed. A war Of
words between the manager and the gods"
In which the latter had decidedly the advan-
tage, lasted half an hour before the play was
allowed to 60 on.
"A Partisan publisher states In a letter to
the journals that Sardou's Daniel Rochat
presents striking analogies with poem by
Theodore Vibert, entitled ''Martura, GU TN
last, and hints that, as soon az Sardou's play
Is published. legal proceedings may possibly
be taken to establish prior rights.
The impression which Is made by LIE Ma
bah, according to the Parisid,, is incomplete
The play Is full Of art and emotion, but 1t
leads to nothing; Its tableaux are admirable,
but 1t lacks unity. So much for Its artistic
qualities. As q popular work its success is
Mcontesttble, and 1t is played by company
only second to that OF the Theatre Fran
cais-the company OF the Vaudeville.
A letter from Edward King, dated at Paris,
contains the following: "a reporter Of the
G0utois has had an interview with Nicolini,
the tenor, who appears to have opened his
heart to the knight Of the quill. From Nico-
linis indiscretions we learn that he and Patti
are absolutely OF one mind In everything;
that he opens ill her letters; that when they
are not singing they pass their evenings at
home playing cards; and other details which
are curious, II not exactly In good taste.
In imitation OF Wagner's Nieblung cycle of
plays, and partly as an offset to 1t. several
German cities have instituted cycles Of
Mozart operas, In which several works OF
that master are given In succession. DR..
Edward Hansllck, the most distinguished OF
German musical critics, says that "a fresh
and careful performance OF Mozart's operas
In the present day cannot but have the bene-
Aeial effect of teaching us to feel more SIM
better" M
In all engagements of artists In Paris there
~ o clause which goes back as far as the sew
enteenth century, In virtue Of which actors
are bound to live at distance of not more
than q quarter Of an hours walk OF the
theatres TO which they belong. Formerly this
rule was strictly observed. The actors of
the COmedie Franchise used nearly ALTO live
In the Rue dc VaIois. The actors were thus
al within easy reach In case Of accidents.
The precautionary measures were pushed