Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1886-03-18
rriND OPERA TONIGHT.
Arrival of the MaplesOn Company
Arg ument of ssCarmen.''

- Arf.gSt OIL the MdPicSOH Jumper
-Areument of ssCarmen.''
is Colonel Mapleson and his trouI
lie reached Salt Lake late last night, and
le majority of the principals registered
r. the Walker House. The Colonel, MAJ
o anne Hauk, and one or two others RI
manned on their special car, which is luz
e uriously fitted up and furnished. Tn
If very general apprehension that Ravel
d would not sing the role of Don Jose lie
our reporter to call on Mr.. Mapleson,
son of the well-known Colonel, and
veritable chip of the old block. MI
{ Mapleson said he had not received an.
n intimation that Ravelli would not sim
D tonight, and was polite enough to SEM
up a note to the popular artistic while thu
reporter waited. Ravelli sent wore
} that he was suffering with sore lung
: and bad cold, but would
appear tonight in Carmen if he fell
better after dinner. He had sung in
Cheyenne, and had no other reason fol
not singing than the one above cited
Mr.. Mapleson explained that DeFalcc
had sung Don Jose in Chicago, and had
received some very fattering compli.
ments from leading critics, but he said il
Ravella is at all able he will appear to-
night.
During the afternoon Manager McKen-
zie sent a note to the DEMOCRAT Office,
! stating that Colonel Mapleson had
advised him that Ravelli would
| positively sing Don Jose. The DEM
ocRAT, however, :, has some doubts
about it. The troupe, with the excep-
ton noted above, are said to be in ex-
cellent trim, and Madame Hauk herself
will not disappoint the audience.
We reprint the argument of Carmen"
for the benefit of those who are not very
familiar with the opera.
1920. Don Jose, a brigadier of dragons
at Seville, is expecting the arrival of
Michaela, a peasant girl, with letter
and purse from his mother in the coun-
try. Michaela appears before the guard
house while Don Jose is absent, and
refuses the profered courtesy to enter
and await his arrival. She has scarcely
disappeared when Don Jose, at the head
of his dragons, appears to relieve the
guard. Morales, the retiring brigadier,
tells Jose of Michaela's visit, and while
waiting anxiously for her return, Jose's
attention is attracted by the presence of
a crowd of work girls who are on their
way to the cigar factory across the
street. Carmen, a pretty coquette, who
is very popular, throws Jose her
boquet in a firtatious way, and with it
several coquettish glances which, for
moment, caused Jose to forget his Mich |
aela. The girls have, barely entered the |
factory when Michaela arrives with the
letter and purse from Jose's mother, and
also brings a kiss, which she delivers
with the message. The affectionate son
dispatches his devoted Michaela back
with a fond kiss for his mother, and
accepted the request conveyed in the
letter to give his heart to none but Mich
aela. A disturbance in the cigar factory
brings most of the girls out into the street,
and the guards are asked to interfere.
Jose and two of his dragons are sent in
to quell the trouble, and it is ascertained
that Carmen has been fighting with an
other of the shop-girls over some dispute.
They are brought out before the officer
and Jose is appointed to place Carmen,
who is adjudged the guilty one, in prison
I'LL she will give a satisfactory explana-
ton. On the way to the prison Carmen,
who has already discovered her power
over Jose, insists coquettishly that he
should contrive to let her escape. Jose {
manages to free Carmen, but is himself
Imprisoned two months as punishment.
carmen returns to her former gypsy life.
md meets Escamillo, the toreador. who
alls desperately in love with her, and
meets with favor in return. Jose, after
lis two months Imprisonment is ended.
inds Carmen at the tavern of Lillas Pas
ia, with some of her gypsy friends, where il
his rival, has lust met and i,
,artially captivated her. She appeals to e
ose to desert and take to the hills with n
Ter and the gypsy smugglers. Jose a
lesitates as he contemplates the u
isgrace to himself and the sorrow to his b
eloved mother. Carmen takes his hest Il
alton as evidence that he does not love
er, and she bids him return at once TO v
ne barracks, and never come to her a
gam: When Jose is about to leave her, y
n officer and brigadier enter, and seeing
armen's intimacy with Jose, the latter al
commanded to go about his business, IL
Inch ne refuses to do, and draws his NJ
word to defend himself. The gypsies ".
,me to the rescue and hold the officer al
Ii Josie, who now consents to accompany
armen to the hills, is safely out Of reach. fir
'se IS next seen in the gypsies' camp in tn
lie mountains, amidst the plumber of the &C
nugglers. He cannot throw off his re- ey
orse resulting from his desertion, and fir
bowed down with grief as he thinks of wi
sorrowing mother in the distant VAL el,
y. Carmen, noticing his attachment .m
his old home, jealousy advises him to- pl
, but his infatuation for her keeps him
aimed by her side. The gypsies are va
artlng off for fresh plumber, and Jose ca
examining his gun, when, without any
nouncement, Michaela appears on the M,
enc, brought thither by a guide. She no
Just about to approach Jose when Es- I
milo arrives and inquiries for Carmen. "N
ION ne has grown to adore. The Jealous
Sc announces his claims on Carmen, and
rms the toreador not to intrude. Es-
milo taunts Jose with the reioinder +.
u carmen is tickle, and has ceased to mol
e her brlgadier of dragons. The two leo
ais draw their knives, and as Jose is hai
the act OF stabbing his opponent, Car
N and the gypsies enter and stay his ma
q. Whlle Jose is appealing to Car mo
n, Mlchaela enters and tells her faith liv;
5 lover that his mother is diving. ~
ken hearted, in the valley below. She :
,es him to renodnce his lawlessness I
| repair to her bedside before it is too dur
,; Carmen, whose affections were al see
dy, placed upon the toreador. is the
tally persistent in her entreaties for -
e to go: Jose reluctantly departs
n MSichaela, but tells Carmen he will
ct her again. nv WI"
ne next scene is in the arena square b
seville, where the toreador is about to T.
ertaln the people with one of his re- n
Vned bull fights. The band announces II