, 1885-02-25
ITALIAN OPERA.
Nevada Sings SweetIy Be-
fore a Cheyenne Audience.
An Enthusiastic Reception Given
Her Last Evening.
Honest and Candid Talk About Eng.
fish and Italian Opera.

Lucia III Lunrmel1H0or; to those who
were absent the consoling information is
volunteered that they missed a rare must
cal event.
Emma Nevada is delicate, nervous, and
on the stage rather pretty. Her voice is
something like her person. Clear, flute
like, and exqnisitely sweet in the higher
keys, il appears to lack but one thing
power. The audience was delighted, how
ever, and called her before the curta in at
the close Of each act. Several tempetuous
e~ncores were given and at one time the
audience went nearly wild with enthusiasm.
Others in the cast were encored and
Cayalazgi created quite a Juror when she
led the ballet. She was the only recip-
lent Of floral gifts, "A piece of Partially for
which the audience may account in any
way it chooses.
Reviewing the entertainment from the
standpoint Of Italian opera, the event
was a brilliant one. The audience
was large, larger than was expected
the singing was artistic; the ballet was
acceptable; the dramatic attendants were
unimportant; the mounting was conspic-
uous by its abs ence.
Let us look at this thing honestly, and
if honesty offehds fashion, so much the
worse for fashion.
Of the entire audience present last eve
ming not a dozen understood a word oil
the opera-but not one failed to enjoy the
singing. The costuming was historically
absurd, for the scene is laid in Scotland
and the people were attired in costumes
belonging to the south Of France-but
Emma Nevada sang sweetly. Not the
most remote idea of the plot or what il
was all about could be gathered from
the dramatic portrayal-but the music
was at times exquisite. A stage filed with
handsome, or even ordinary looking peo-
pie. gaily attired and singing 4 grand
chorus is a beautiful sight; the chorus
last night consisted a lot OF old imported
and obese hays who were positively re-
pulsiye, and a collection of villianous mac
~aroni-eating cut-throats, who are proba-
bIv naid abouf sour dollars a week each
but they sang fairly well with the aid Of
the grand orchestra. The orchestra
under the leadership of the veteran Ar
dittl, was superb, and the ballet was or
d,narv Such was the Italian oner,
The question naturally and logically
arises. "Wbv do neople 90 wild aver the
Italian onera2u For the same reason
that some neonle who claim that cham
magma ID the only nroner drink Mt five dol
lars n hottie would drink nothing Init bee,
~ the cost Of beer and chamnaone were
transposed.
The leaders in the musical world who
understand and annreciate Italian onera
once declared II their choice soon Mrs
Parvenue and Mr. Sudde nriehes went
into ranti,res of bad grammar oyer the
italian " and in n short time il became
fashionable That is the history of Italian
onera in a nutshell
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a country tbev need not he ashamed Of
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" sn"k'e op'- WIN pay "' "a
penseS 'nsiuen'Al 10 ~l'ness.ng q nulnoe,
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