Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-12-04
FATINITZ4.
The Charming Operetta Charmingly Rem
dered by the Boston Ideal Company Last
Evening.

The Charming Operetta Charmingly Rem
dered by the Boston Ideal Company Last
Evening.
The new opera house has contained
number Of very gay and brilliant throngs
sirce the inauguration night, but the au-
dience that assembled last night in point
of both numbers and personnel, was the
finest which has ever graced the building.
Judicious and appreciative, when ap-
piled to the average audiences, are words
easily seid, and they form an indispensable
part or the stock vocabulary of the major
Ity Of writers on musical and dramatic
topics, but in this instance the terms are
descriptive of the mood of the audience
which heard the opera of "Fatinitza" as
rendered by the Boston Ideal Opera COM
pany.
The theme and bright, taking tunes of
the score are 30 we'll known and familiar
! as to require no especial mention, a few
of the airs being as popular as many of
the tunes which are whistled on the street
or sung and played in
the parlor or drawing room.
Il is a bright, fresh operetta, nevertheless
with pleanty of scope for good singing,
and acting, and as rendered by the Ideals,
it proved a very enjoyable and captivating
performance. The cast was strong one
vocaliy, and the acting was a long way
ahead of the average.
| Ii included Miss Phillips as Vladimir
and Fatinitza; Marie Stone. as the prin-
cess; Mr.. Whitney, as Kantchuchoff; Mr..
| Barnabee, as the Turkish Pasha; Tom
! Karl, as the newspaper correspondent;
Lizzie Benton, as Dimtine, and in
Il hon
The accessories were fine, the
chorus auzillaries strong, and the orches-
tration all that could have been asked for.
The esprit of the cast was fine on the
whole and the opera was sung and acted
with dashing grace and charm very
pleasing.
| Miss Stone sang with the old charm,
although her voice at the first blush
seemed to have lost somewhat Of its for
mer strength and sweetness. But the
quaver was only temporary, fer when she
kindled to her work these signs Gisap-
peHred.
Mr.. Whitney was as formerly. excellent,
and Miss Phillips sang her role we'll
Mr.. Karl's voice appeared shorn of some
Of lis strength at the start, but it improved
| Ouri1R TIC eVtAlhS. bafEhp6o Oibtiu-
guisaed himself as usual, and while the
ttpsy scene in the harem was fine, We think
We have seen hun act it bette.
The gems of hsIopera were the ouartette
selection When ROBBED in White" by Miss
Phillips, Mrs S.one, Mr.. Whitney and
Mr.. Karl; this received double encore
MIR. Whitney's colo was we'll sung and
warmly eppIauasa. Tho moroccan in
the next act by Miss Stone and Miss
Phillips was finely sung, rs
was the solo, My Native Land,'' oy Mr
Karl.
The pearl of the evening was the trio in
the third act By Tom. Karl, Miss Stone ant
Miss Phillips This was accorded triple
encore. Mr.. Frothing ham, as the Sergeant
was fine in both make up and action, ano
he has the dialect down fine. the Musta
pha of Mr.. Nichols was capital, having the
squesky head notes of his voice.
GIRoFLE GIRoFLA.
This opera will be presented for the frs
time by the company in ST. Paul tonight
with the following cas-:
| Don Botero. 1891 Il. q. Barnabee
Mo-asifuln. Tom Kari
| Mourzouk. Myron W. Whitney
800 Twin Sisters ....... Miss Marie Stoce