Omaha daily bee., 1882-09-16
MUSICAL AND M

Frederick Warde will dedicate the new
opera house at Hot Springs, Ark, late in
the fall.
John s. Clarke Is to act as Dromio Of
Syracuse in 1.-THE Comedy Of Errors," in
London.
Ndlle. Rhea opened Monday night at
the Park theater, Brooklyn, in Adriennf
Lecouvreur.
A new comic opera is threatened, under
the frigid title of Arctic; or, the North
Pole Expedition"
Clara Morris will act in the Grand opera
house next week, appearing in her remark
able impersonation of Miss Mutton.
On Monday night Lawrence Barrett, the
tragedian, began his season at Haverly's
Philadelphia theater. opening in Richie.
lieu.
Annie Pixley produced the new play of
Iara, written expressly for her by Mars
den, for the first time at Columbus, o., on
Monday night.
More than two hundred performances OF
Strauss 'Merry War" have already been
given in Berlin, and the operetta still
draws crowded houses.
Nine. Janauschek, Louise Elbridge,
Edith Bland, Neil Burgess, and Solomons,
the composer, were among the passengers
who arrived last Sunday morning on the
steamship Spain.
Col. Nichols, of the Cincinnati college Of
music, promises another operate festival
in that city during the coming season.
which is to cluster all the operate star, )"
and surpass anything of the kind ever
given in the country.
Herr Neumann has organized a Wag-
merriam opera company, with which he in.
tends to visit various German cities At
Breslau the whole of the tickets for the
Nibelung Trilogy were disposed of before
noon on the first day of sale, the emperor
of Germany being represented among the
purchasers.
During the summer the pianist Josetfy
has been working at Tarrytown upon a
new piano concerto, and has written o
transcription of Delibes' ''Pizzicati." He
has studied, among other novelties for the
coming season, Brahms second concerto
and LISTS "Don Juan" fantasia. In No.
vember he will give four concerts with or
chestra.
A Saratoga letter writer says: "Clara
Louise Kellogg was never more charming
in appearance and manner than during
this summer. She captivates both men
and women. Her advent in the drawing
room is the signal for a circle of admirers
to rally round her." This, of course, must
be eXasperating to Clara's recently dis.
carded sutton, butt shows that she is quite
likely to capture another.
The Germans are beginning to complain
that they have to come to New York if
they wish to hear their faYorite stage art
lists. The ThoIia theater has secured for
this season a large number of new artists,
among them Frau Gallmayer, Herr Bar
neys and Herr Wilkes, Fri. Galster, FIJI.
Pibsch, Herr Knack and Carl Lindau.
Herr Barneys bears mentioning in Ger.
mDny in the same breadth with Haase,
S~onnenthal, and Possart. He is also well
known in London, where he appeared as
leading actor of the Meiningen company a
few years ago. Frau Gallmayer's popu.
larity in Vienna is equal to that of Frau
Geistinger.
A tourist in San Francisco says that
"the regular orchestra of Chinatown con-
sists of a one.stringed fiddle, with long
neck, a small banjo, a fageolet, a drum, a
tambLurine played Upon with slender,
flexible drumsticks, and all the gongs that
the neighborhood affords. 1t was an occa-
sion of some surprise TO me to note that
the Chinese drama has something of an
operate character, the entrances being
marked by orchestral outbreaks, the brief
est interludes being filled with music, and
the performers occasionally stepping to
the front of the stage and ventilati q their
griefs or explaining their happiness in d
squealing area, voices and instruments
pitched at the height to give one the ear.
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