The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-10-23
ADJUSTMENTS.

beautiful op0ra of II Trovatore. Time,
with all his limitations. seems to have
overlooked the fair Emma and her en-
tire company; instead of year and
half one might imagine it was buta day
and night since we last had this body
ofartists in our midst; not change is
there evident in the organization, every
singer is the same, from the buxom
aud bird-like Emma down to the
little tenor who walks on with a torch.
the deep lunged Annandals, the fiery
baritone, Pruette, the attitudinous little
Montegriffo. with his supurb high G.
the stately Broderick, even the arbitrary
baton waver, Tomssi-all are in their
places looking not an hour older than
when We saw them last-Working Just
as hard and singing just as well. 1t is
not necessary to say anything extended
of the representa- ion; everyone knows
TroYatore as he knows the Doxology,
and rich as it is in its melody, harmony
and orchestral movements, we almost,
think the time will come in Salt Laks
when it will not be deemed sacrilege to
say that the arrangement of Trovatore
impels the thought of the Chestnut, ;
TraViata would undoubtedly have been
more popular opening.
The talents OF Emma Abbott are
about as well known to our audiences
as the music of Verdi's opera; she has
rot changed so much as a grace note.
Her high notes are as pure, her execu-
ton of tril's, shakes and runs as perfect.
and her work as bard and conscientious
as ever they were; still we do not by
any means think she is at her best in
Leonora, and we look forward with
pleasure to the varied entertainment
provided IN the weeks bill. Annandale
is as excellent as ever. We almost
think her voice is sOunder and fuller
than before. and she won many hearty
encomiums. Mr.. Pruette is a fine
actor and singer, and towers over
every one else on the stage; his Tenn
pest of the Heart was redemanded,
and though We cannot say we admire the
vibrato style he has so much
no one can deny him talent,
3 irength and magnetism to a great de-
gree; Montegriffo may be said to have
Father struggled to get there, than to
have ''got there" except in the one
place where his beautiful G electrified
the house, and in the other where the
Back to Our Mountains duo with
Miss Annandale was encorsd; the
chorus and orchestra did good work
and the co&tuming throughout was
superb.
NOTES.
THE popular Michelena will have a
warm welcome tonight.
THE Miserere chorus last night was
~, -,
Of the gong.
The Denver engagement of the
Abbott Company was the greatest they
aver played there.
Mr.. WITHERELL denies the report
hat Abbott will not sing in the Chimes
If Normandy matinee.
AN excellent Innovation is that
Manager. Clawson has made in selling
gallery tickets on the east side of the
obby.
THE ever popular Martha will be done
10 might. with this cast:
Martha. ...................... Emma Abbott a
Nancy. ................-...L Lizzie Aunandal9
Lionel. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Mr.. Mitchelena
PlunKett. .-...-.: MI. Prustte
rIistem. Observation-Disclosures. Mr.. BrOderick
sheriff Mr.. Karl
THE slight appearance of WEAKNESS
evident once in awhile lasc evening was
due co the fact that the whole com
pany left Denver by a Union Pacific
special Immediately after Saturday
nights performance and arrived here
early yesterday morning, travelling two
nights without rest.
Miss ABBoTT's Jim Fiskian looking
husband, the urbane Witherill, still
stands around the front portals to assist
n handling the throngs. Asked what
ne had done with Salt Lakes old idol
Tagliapietra, he said the last time he
saw him, he was playing cards and TAX
ng it easy in New York City. Castle
was travelling with the reorganized
American Opera Company.
ALLEN, the comedian of the company,
we'll remembered for his Ko-Ko, is IN
New York getting pointers on the stage
business Of Gilbert and Sullivan's Yeo-
man of the Guard, the music of which
the Abbott Company are now reht ars-
ing. Mr.. Allen will join them in San
Francisco to rehearse the stage business
and a grand production of the new
opera Will take place in that city.
WHAT has taken place in year and
a half, was the query last night, to
change professor IOmdSlS opinion on
the propriety of allowing an encore
to the Back to our Mountains" duet2
When Annandale and Montegriffo did
that exquisite piece of music before,
there was something of a tempest,
everyone will remember, because the
leader urged the orchestra on, and
would not allow the singer to yield the
encore the audience SO stormily de-
manded. Professor Tomasi insisted
then when taken to task by The
that the encore was not
proper, was never sung and could not
be allowed. Probably the fair AMMAN
dale has had the floor since that
time. however, for last night when the
recall came, the professor waved his
baton over it as gracefully and uphesi-
tatingly as if IL were the second verse
Of the song.