Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-02-19
ADJUSTMENTS.
Appearance Of the Abbott Company in
yerdi's ''Il TrOyatOre" and Gilbert
and SulliTan's "Patience."
Appearance of the Well.KnOwn VOkes
Family in a Round Of Funny
Sketches Next Week.

Yesterday afternoon the Abbott Company
gave Verdi's great opera II Trouatore before a
large audience, Miss Julie ROsewald appear
ing as 'Leonora," and Miss Lizzie Annandale
| as "Azucena." Iroudtore was written by
Verdi before the Wagnerian fever had seized
him, and it Is clothed with all the romance
and startling beauty OF his imagination. Be
! fore his time the Italian music had been OF
| rather a tender character. Then came on
the contest between Wagner and the Italian
| school. This fight had originated in
the compositions OF Gluck, who was a
| free-thinker in music; but until Wsg-
ner's time the contest had not
| been bitter one. In his first operas Verdi
| discarded the soft, soulful harmony of his
| predecessors, and instituted melodramatic
| music His earlier operas are wild, eccentric,
sometimes puerile, but always emitting a
! spark OF the divine fire somewhere. OF his
| melodramatic music, as distinguished from
! his Wagnerian music, like aida, TfOpdtOre is
| one OF the best samples. 1t is TO be doubted
| whether in the future it will be considered
! at all an equal OF Aida, but Ii Is acknowl-
| edged on all hands to be a hnely-colored
| opera permeated by a weird charm, and full
| Of dram attic splendors. There are few compo-
| sitions in the whole range of music more
beautiful than the "Miserere," which has been
| sung millions of times, and of which one
! never wearies. 1t deserves to be immortal.
| The opera was adequately rendered yester-
| dav afternoon. Miss Julie R 1sewald has
| sung the part OF "Leonora' much better, but
! she sang il extremely we'll Any retrogres-
! sion must be considered to be due to the fact
! that she has been very much indisposed Tor
| two or three days. Miss Annandale's "Azu-
| cena" WAS striking, but not so good as soma
| Of her other characters. Mr.. Stoddard did
some splendid singing as the Count di
! Luna" George Omi did not have much
occasion to display his voice Fernando, y
nor did Mr.. Appleby fare any better as
Ruiz" Mr.. Fabrini was an excellent
MAURICE" sang with fine effect, and distin-
guished himself in the singing OF the "Mis-
erere."
PATIENCE"
Last night the aesthetic opera, Patience, was
repeated before a good audience by the
Abbott company. 1t proved to be even more
enjoyable on a second hearing than at the
first. Miss Abbott as Patience" Miss An
mandate as "Jane," Mr.. Olmi as "Grosvenor, -
and Mr. Castle as "Bunthorne" were capital.
The latter gentleman, in reply to an encore
on "a commonplace young man" relieved
himself of the following:
A newspapercritic young man,
A thinks-he-can- hit-it young man.
Who knows more than old Mozart
About music and high art,
This newspaper critic young man. ~
This may not be the verse exactly, but it
was fully as bad as this. Would ii not have
been more appropriate if he had sung as
follows?
A would-be tenor young man,
A lost-all- hisvoice young man,
A wheezy-expressing,
Very depressing,
Go-in-on-his-form young man
As "Prof. Pygmalion Whites" would re-
mark, "Come again, please"
The vOkes Family.
Next week the well-known Nokes family,
who are on their farewell American tour,
will play an engagement at the Memphis
Theater. Monday, Tuesday and Friday
evenings Bellies Of the Kitchen will be pre-
Joe. Wednesday and Thursday evenings
Fun in Fog and Ruth's Romance will be
given. The cast of the Bellies is as follows:
Lucinda scrubb, a lady's maid, with "airs
Mary, a housemaid OF "aristocrafic in
clinations,' with song, dance and duet.
Miss Victoria NOkes.
Barbara, kitchen maid. 1.-The incarnation
Of fun" full of mirth, meTriment ana
Miss Bessie SAMSON
Timotheus Gibbs a doctors assistant, and
legs dd l6tu,n. Mr.. Fred Vokes
Virgins, barber. with wigs, jigs. a waltz
and dance, and trouble with Barbara.
Mr.. Fawdon Nokes.
In Cousin Joe Victoria, Jessie and Fred
Vokes, and Messrs. f. H. Warren Wright,
N d. Jones and L. Haywood will appear,
The Vokes have had many imitators in their
style of musical and comedy entertainments,
but none have been quite SO clever as the
originals. They are English people, thor
oughly SO in their methods, and on their first
visit to this country some years ago, became
immensely popular.