Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1883-03-24


THE SPRING sEAsox-xKw OPERAS ABRoAp-rm
HousEs-rHE La SCALA ORCHESTRA COMING.
ETC.
John Mccullough win open the week at The
National.
The Rice Iolanthe troup begin Mondsg
night at Ford's
-Langtry viii play . week at Ford's oon-
mencng April 10th.
- The proposed new theater on Connecticue
avenue. to be called the Casino, win, n n b.
lieved be built. IL il to be the size or ths
Madison Square, New York.
- The Nilsson concert Of Lincoln Hall O
Thursday evening next promises to be largely
, attended.
The spring season Of italian opera in New
York has been q pronounced success. whca
Patti sung Lucia the other night the entire
house rose to its feet and cheered.
- The supreme court OF Connecticut has Iust
decided that Carrie Swain, who has been this
week at Ford's can play Cad the 7op,boy In
| Growers comedy.
Blanche Chapman severed her connection
with the Ford Opera Company, Saturday,
March Il. She has Joined the Hess Opera Com
pany. and is playing Phyllis in .'Iolanthe."
- The present season OF the Detroit Open
House has been the most prosperous for sixteen
years. The weekly average has been g. 900.
John Mccullough several years ago PLAYED
to twenty-six dollar house In Rochester Hls
support was Frank Mordaunt, Henrietta Chan
frau and Evelyn Evans.
Little Red Riding Hood" and The sleep.
Ing Beauty" win be produced at the Academy
of Music, Philadelphia, April 4.
The new Academy OF Music, Denver. COL,
Will be opened April H. The seating capacity
Will be 1000 The population of Denver e
present is as OO0
Joseph Jefferson will dedicate the new
opera house at Uniontown, Pa, April 30.
-signor Salvini, supported by Clara Morris,
will be at the Boston Museum, April g.
They are building an iron theater In Berlin.
and they seem to think 1t will be imperyious 20
fire.
The subject Of "Blucbeard," which has
been upon the English stage for certainly well
nigh hundred years, has again been treated
this time by Mr. r. c. Burnand-ina three-aot
burlesque drama produced ut the Gaiety Thea.
ter, London, on March L.
"A Shakespeare festival is to occur this wear
at Stratford-on-Avon. beginning on April 10 and
lasting two weeks. William Creswick will play
eight times. and will impersonate Faistqf for
the first time In England.
At Toronto Mrs. Langtry was a big flnan-
cial success rtistically o failure She was
kindly welcomed. She was numerically Cuyed
by the "gods" In Rosalind.
The advance sale for the Emma Abbott
Opera Company this week at Kansas City ives
very large. They appeared in "Ioanthe" I" n
Trovatore" and " Paul and Virginia"
AT Richmond the advance sale of seats for
the Hess Acme Opera Company this week was
the largest of the season.
Mr.. Lytton Sothern appeared on March u
at Liverpool as Lord Dus,dreay-y and on the
18th he acted David Garrick These parts hs
had never before acted In England. though up
wards OF 600 times In Australia and elsewhere
He is said to be very like his father as an
actor
-Gounod's Redemption" has been purchased
for Italy by Rcordi of Milan, who will shortly
publish an edition with italian text
Mr.. Charles Reade was to write for Mm
Geneyieve Ward q version of his old piece en-
tiled "Art" QS55). with Anne Oldfeld for hero
Inc: This subject is well known to our stage.
under the name of .'A0 Actress by DAYLIGHT /" IN
which Rrdcegirdle is the female saint.
AT the May dramatic festival in Cincinnati
price Of season ticket is Ga and 1t entities
the holder to q reserved seat for each OF the
eight performances. At the auction sale. The
bids Will be for premium above the price OF
the ticket. purchasers being limited to Go
The auction sale begins on April f. and the sale
OF season tickets without q premium on April O.
The Milan correspondent Of the London
Musical Rerier reports that Verdi still has the
intention Of enriching the stage with an opera
which will certainly be the finest and grandest
ne has ever imagined. 1t is to be taken from
'Othello," but will be called ''Iago, to prevent
confusion with the "OthellO" OF Rossini.
- Henry E. Abbey has contracted with the
LA Scala" Milan, orchestra, consisting Of
seventy-six members. to bring them to this
country next season for the Metropolitan Opera
House. signor Campanini mot the tenor win
be the musical director.
There will be q June musical festival IN San
Francisco this year, at which eight concerts will
be given. There will be Wagner, Beethoven and
GounOd nights.
Thursday night "f5O. 900, a Story Of Pluck"
was produced at the Boston Theater before Q
large audience. The piece entirely depends on
the stage pictures and startling effects Every
thing went off smoothly to the evident pleasure
and satisfaction of those present. IL is sensa-
tiOnal drama, and attained considerable success
In London.