Omaha daily bee., 1888-04-29
MUSICAL AND F.,

Campanini after a lapse of four years, APP
peared in New York last week in "Otello.'
Leslie Allen and his daughter Viola are to
join the stock company of the Boston mu-
scum next season.
Rowland Blackstone, of 1.-THE Highest Bid
der' company, is a son of Blackstone, the IA
nous English comedian.
The Duff company will open with the new
opera, 1.-THE Queens Mate, Fat the Broadway
theater, New York, about May l.
Miss Clara Louise Kellogg Strakosch is to
head an opera company next season, and
will give ''Mignon" and "Faust,'' with per-
haps others.
Bijou Heron returned to the stage last
week for the first time since the death of her
father. She is playing in 1.-THE Mystery of a
Hanson Cab"
Hawthorne's remarkable novel, the Oscar
let Letter. u has been dramatized, and Louis
James has purchased the right to produce
it next season.
"My Sweetheart" Miss Minnie Palmer,
sails for Europe May 2g, on the Alaska, re-
turning in December for q short starring
tour of the large cities.
Henry Irving and Ellen Terry are playing
in Faust" at the London Lyceum. In May
the bill will be changed to 1.-THE Amber
Harp and "Robert Macaire."
Miss Emily Winant, it is az. ounced, has
been engaged by the Boston Handel and
Haydn society to sing in 1.-The Messlah'' and
'Eliiah," which are to be produced next
season.
Miss Menk Meyer, grand-niece of Anton
Rubinstein, and pupil of List, p mr"'cal pro-
dizzy not yet eighteen years old, has COM
posed the music and written the ilDretto of
an opera.
Nine. Gerster will sail for Europe on April
2S. On May Is she will sing in opera at the
Pesth royal opera house, and will probably
also appear during the season in London in
| Italian opera.
NJz Nf.Iyoa -1.;. -..l tyuNl-
Golden Giant'' was finished according to the
| prearranged dates. 1t is denied that the sea-
son was not satisfactory. The piece will be
used again in the fall.
1t is chronicled that Ella Russell, "the new
American prima dona has given her one hun
dredth concert at Warsaw, and the enthusi-
astic Russians threw her valuable presents
and more than three hundred bouquets.
"Otello," Verdi's latest opera, which was
recently produced in New York, has ELECTED
strong praise from d number of the critics
on the ground of its intrinsic merit, as well
as for the manner in which it was presented,
Mr.. Bolossy Kiralfy has just purchased the
original Partisan spectacle, "Matthias San.
dorf,n by rJulius Verne and w. Busnash,
which will be produced at Niblo's garden in
August. The Victoria theater, of Berlin, pro
duces it next month.
Etelka Gerster wants the public to refrain
from unkind remarks and see If she doesn't
recover her voice after a while. opens can
be very, very cruel,n she says. No one feels
ill-disposed toward her, but q woman who
can't sing ought not be advertised to sing.
Mrs. Langtry is TO pass the summer on the
Pacific coast, and has not any contracts to
appear next season as yet. This has given
currency to the old, old story that she pro-
poses TO obtain a divorce from her husband
under the accommodating laws of California
Agnes Huntington will retire from tho
BostonianS opera company at the close of the
present season with entire good will ON the
part of both singer and management. Jesse
Bartlett Davis has been engaged to sing
leading contralto roles for the Bostonians
next season.
Hermann, the prestidigitateur, will sal
for London on May %, where he has an en-
gagement at the Crystal palace in view. lie
will return 70 this country in July. and open
in Omaha on August q. From there he goes
direct TO San Francisco, and from there tC
the City of Mexico, where he will begin an
engagement in October next.
A permanent Italian opera is to be estab
lished at the Paris Eden theater for the per.
Torrance of operas exclusively by Italian
and French composers. Verdi's 'Otello,'
Boito's ''Meistofele,n and Ponchielii's
"Giocondan will &c the Italian works 10 bt
first placed upon the repertoire.
Chevalier Blondin starts for New Yorl
from France in about two weeks and will APP
pear at St. George, Staten Island, in June
under the management OF lmre Kiralfy. Al
though the famous tight-rope walker il
sixty four years of age, he IS said 10 be as
lively as ever. ana his temperance in this
country after an absence o. SO. many year;
will be an interesting eyeAt,
"Nadiy," the operstta which is TO follow