St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-12-23
NEVADA.
The LOng-Expected Concert by the
Peerless Diva.

There have been many fine European
singers come to America to entrance our
people by their singing, and there have
been several excellent voices sent across the
Atlantic in this generation to come back to
us eminent and estimable. They have not
been many, and so far as sopranos
are concerned we must narrow down
to two who have achieved true artistic
eminence. kellogg, now past her prime,
and the favorite of twenty years past, finds
her successor in Nevada, Western Ameri-
can girl, with a voice of great compass and
flexibility, which judicious training and in
telligent application have developed into the
best now before the American public Ne
vada is still very young and of slight
physique. Time will work wonders with
her under the proper advantages, and ne
glect will leave her far behind Her
voice has delightful range and a pure
ness quite extraordinary. and while she
is capable of the best work now, she may
find herself fully equal to much more am
bilious attempts as she gains in strength and
years.
1t was a disappointment to st. Paul peo-
pie last night to hear Nevada in the time
worn numbers she gave. In the Carnival
and the Dinorah valse she was enabled to
display her schooling and her wonderful
command of her voice, but it is
certain that she would not
select such for a. New York or
Boston audience. A grand scena and cava-
tina, more novel than these test pieces"
used in every female academy in the land,
would have been more acceptable. How
ever, she
DID THEM so BEAUTIFULLY
hat ritio;e,,, foIIe bofo,o OIL. $3.50 =
not well supported, except by her accom-
PIANIST, who was fully en- rapport with her.
In the duet which was not the one set
down on the program. she was most I'M
fortunately tied TO a tenor so unequal to the
demands of his part as to quite destroy the
effect of the cantatrice's fine work.
Vergnet the tenor just alluded to, is de-
cidedly paSSe. He has undoubtedly been a
good singer, for his method is still good,
but he is out of place in a first-clasS COM
pany with his forced and falsetto tones
Signor Butt is equally out of place as far as
the company should be formed, but emf
nently in place if the only idea is to give
prominence to the pretty little prina DONNA
His Largo al Factotunl" was dreary.
Casati is truly excellent violnist and it
is compliment to him to assert that he
ranks with our Paul Stoeving. Frank DAM.
anu FRED VIII. he is the best artist in the
party after Nevada.
Mons. Dewlta mas good technique with
light and too effeminate touch. He has
too many mannerisms and last night he
took the most understandable liberties with
his auditors, perhaps presuming that he
might do anything so far away from New
York. He started his first number with
the Spinning Wheel" then branched
out and finished with something
quite foreign to his theme. The
number set down as Rubenstein '.Valse
Caprice" he started with Moskowskis
''Serenade. then touched a gavotte and
wound up with snatch of a waltz that
might have been Rubenstein's or some other
fellows
When we have Nevada the Great. please
charge a little more. NJ. Chizznia and give
ser silt NC that Will 40 er credit. ; Ii
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