New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-04-29
the City Hail. will meet with prompt attention, and
the application OF the lawful remedy.
MUSICAL MENTION AND COMMENT

sIgnor Campanini's short season OF italian opera
at the Academy Of Music has ended In disaster.
Whether any italian impressario ever did worse
business here is doubtful. Tie record is mae regret
nIly. sgnor Campanni deserved better for bis
enterprise and daring and verd's opera merited a
better fate its introduction In tho New World
otelos Is work which no serious student Of music
can afford TO treat with indifference. Opinions may
differ as to the intrinsic value of It's music, but for
what Il dscloses Of the composers Ideals 1t entities
Verdi 10 The worlds respect. II not fairly tried
Neither was the cause for which 1t stands II was
unwise 10 give serios of operate representations
after the amusement season had worn itself out
II was nothing less than foolish TO do so with III
equipped company, In house that has lost its fashion
able prestige and at prices large that fatal bundcr
had to be confessed by their reduction in the second
work
The failure of this last effort to rehabtafc italian
opera Will fill the magazines of IT'S enemies with amniu
milton for a long time to 1t Will be difficult
for the italian party 10 explain away the fact that
an admired composers most ambitious effort was re-
ceived with apathy and indifference in one of the most
populous, cosmopolitan and apprecative cities in the
world In the face of such fact the attacks on the
German institution at the Metropolitan Opera House
ought to cease With all the advantage OF the nov
city OF oteoD and the sympathetic interest felt In
signor Campanini the loss for the two weeks was
proporficnatelj mucn larger than that made by the
German opera with much greater expenses In season
of sixty four representations There has been deal
of cxtravagant and mendacous talk concerning the
financial outcome of the German season. local
musician who is fond of resorting to mountebank
methods TO further his OWE ends has been scattering
the statement that the loss at the Metropolitan for
the season was So24,Oo0. In view of such reports
becomes a duty TO state the facts. Treating the
opera and the Opera House as single enterprise the
annual statement made to the stockholders month
ago shows the following state OF analrs Inc toUaI
receipts S411 $50 "a, OF which Sleoooi - came
from subscribers and purchasers OF tickets, SliOle0
from the stockholders for the use OF tnci poHes anu
s5I 500 from rentals The total cost OF sixty-four
represent ations of opera S2o365 ~ ana Inc cost
of maintaining the building about &l430OJ III all ABOUT
S43O 900. against which there We're "a lSD "a re-
ceipts 1t must be borne In mind mar IN TINS s'a.e are
against the receipts for less than four nouns Oh ope5
Also that II no opera at all were given thc socKhold
eIs would have 10 pay an sessment OF Hi,OOO year
each to meet the fxed charges against inc Duu'ns
II is the difference between this $1,000 ana Tie
- 800 assessed that the stockholders PAID for the en-
joymen of the opera The average cost per d repre-
sentatOn in the season OF 1So01SoI was 14VV3 W ,
I'm Iss7Is6s 432 90 decrease In favor OF the later
season Of $40 a. The total decrease III eoS' "~S
S15,42O ~ I'm receipts $1,000 10.
Miss Gertrude Griswold has arranged concert Tor
the benefit Of ST. Georges Seaside Home for the Poor
which is TO take place at Chickerng Hall on Monday
evening. MAY IL Miss Griswold win have the help
of Mrs Anna Bulktcy Hills, Miss Net1e carpenter,
Miss Virginia Rider Emilio Agramonte ana sghor
Corr.
Mr. Edward Lloyd, the eminent English tenor, was
announced TO sail from Liverpool yesterday by the
Etrura He comes to I'll an engagement at the Music
Festival In Cincinnati, which begins on May -.