The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-05-01
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.

MADAME MARIE GElsr1yGER has been
singing in st. Petersburg
CHARLES H. HoYT's "Tln Soldier. recent.
~ produced in Boston, was pronounced a
great hit.
PATTI has appeared forty times during the
present season, receiving 81 900 for each APP
pearance.
HERR SCHoTT has abandoned the idea of
giving another season of German opera in
New York
"BALDAsSARE," a new opera, by Senior Vii
late, has been produced at the Teatro Keale
Madrid, with perfect success.
AUGUsTIN DAILY has secured A. w Pin
eros farce-comedy "The Magistraten done
at the Court theatre, London for America
CHARLES KELLY, the English actor who
died the other day, was one of the husbands
OIL Ellen Terry. Mr. Kelly had not lived
with Miss Terry for several years
LIE CHEvALIER JEAN" the new opera by
Nictorin JonciereS, just produced at the
Opera Comique, is spoken of in LIE Menestra
as decidedly the best work its composer ha
yet written.
DURING the International exhibition at
Antwerp, two oratorios, one by Franz List,
the other by Anton Rubinstein will it is
said, be performed, each under the direction
of the composer himself
ANTON RUBENsTEIN has been in Holland
uuI Nv lue last HlOllln on q concert tour He
has finished new oratoro which is to be
brought out under his own conductorship at
Antwerp during the exhibition.
SIGNoR MOzzUCATo in the article on Verdi
states that the barrel organ, as ground in his
native village near Buseto in the Grand
Duchy of Parma, by itinerant musicians was
the first to awaken his musical susceptible
ties
MISS BELLA CUsHMAN EATON, Of Boston.
a grandniece of Charlotte Cushman, aims to
follow III the footsteps of that famous actress
She has already received many commenda-
tons of her talent in reading before the lit
erati of Beacon Hill.
WILHELM KELLER, while playing in Schil-
lers Bride of MeSslna,n at Schwerin, in
Germany, lately, fell down dead at the head
of Don Emanuel's bier. The audience thought
it was a fine portrayal of grief, and APP
plauded till the truth was known.
JUDO, the French star who will visit
America next autumn, is said by a CORE
spondent to be nearly forty years old, with
vigorous form almost bordering on the
heavy She has purely oval face and a
mouth that efectually displays two rows Of
pure white teeth
A GLEN's FALLS. n V, man has invented
a musical instrument, the sound being caused
by water dropping Into u tube OF thln reson-
ant metal. lie got the idea by hearing rain
drops patter on tin roof. Its tones will be
Us lOutl us lllJSe Vi u MUSIC ID TX. he invent
or Will exhibit 1t throughout the country
DURING last year no fewer than thirty
eight new operas by native composers were
brought out IN Italy, provided revised YER
sion OF NerdI's Don Carlos can be called a
new opera. Among the names of the com
poSers who are responsible for these WORKS
only one or two are known outside of Italy.
A GREAT number of new operettas are soon
TO be brought out Carl Millocker is engaged
upon libretto furnished him by Genee and
Zell; Franz Won Suppe has just hid the score
for "a text by Schnitler; Allons Czibu ka, the
composer OF "Pentecost in Florence, - has ac-
cept4d text book from Regen and Genee
Johan Strauss Is hard at work on his "Gypsy-
Baron and Joseph Bayer is soon to finish a
new operetta for the Theatre au der Wien
ENTHUSIASTIC violinists have related mar
velous things of the capricous violin and its
feminine coquetreS. Ole Bull used to say
that he frequently had to coax and wheedle
his violin without stint, and to WOO it by the
genteSt caresses. Whenit would obstinately
refuse to utter accordant notes, he was wont
to rub it mildly with good humor with a
flannel cloth, or to put it aside until its CO.
quettiSh mood had paSse /.