San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-10-24
MUSIC AND THE DRAMA.


her shapelyfi CURE to New York the
atre-goers.
M. b. Curtis will soon return to the
stage in a new peculiar play called
"Shots-chew."
s"Theodora" is to be revived by a
lady of Providence, r.. l., who has
rented the original scenery and COS
tunes.
Maggie Mitchell refuses to play on
Sunday evenings. 1t means loss OF
something like $500 to her every time
she celebrates the Lords Day.
| A road shenandoah" company is
being formed to fill dates booked be-
| fore the New York success OF the
piece made Metropolitan run imper-
| alive.
Fanny Davenport's friends say she
has made enough money with La
Tosca" this season to make her COM
Portable for the rest of her natural
| life.
Whistler Alice Shaw has had pro-
duced in London a monster photograph
of herself, nine feet high. 1t is said
to be the largest Photographic print
ever made.
The Bayreuth Theater will be clos
ed the whole of next summer and
reopened in 1891, in order to give
"Tannhauser" with the greatest pos
sible eclat that an outlay of $4,000
will effect.
The famous song writer, Paolo Tosti,
| is on visit to his native Italy, after
long absence in England. A seri es
Ia will no
published in Milan at the end of the
year.
The Rev. Barring Gould, who is a
| musician as we'll as an author, has Or
| ganized company of amateurs, who
| have had great success in singing old
Cornish and Devon ballads through
| those counties.
| One of the features of the great pan
| tomime which is to be produced in
! Covent Garden Theatre this winter
will be lion riding upon horseback.
There is said to be no humbug about
I this announcement. Both horse and
lion are to he alive and of full growth.
| Minnie Hauk has bought for a home
| the villa Triebschen on the Lake of
Lucerne, the house in which Wagner
| lived from 1866 till early in 1872, and
where he finished "Die Meistersing-
err and wrote good part of "Sieg-
| fried" and "Die GOtterdammerung."
| Among the manuscripts exhibited
at the Paris Exposition are the origin
al scores of Cherubini's "Ali Baba,"
Halevy's "Jewess," Meyerbeer's "Hu-
guenots" and Robert" Gounod's
"Cinq-Mars," Rossini's civilian
Tell" Auber's "Zerlina" and Doni-
zetti's "FavOrita."
They talk q good deal in Italy about
one Eugene Durot, who, though a
Frenchman, has won fame in Italian
opera, especially in a production, at
Lucca, of Verdi's "Otello." He goes
next to Turin having declined offers
from Barcelona and Palermo. He
seems to be rising tenor with fu-
ture.
In German grand opera at the
New York Metropolitan Opera House
this season Lalo's LIE Roi d'4s" will
be the chief novelty. "Otello," LA
given, ballet known as ode Pup
penfee" At the end of the season
there will Wagner "cyclus" when
every one of the Bayreuth masters
works, with the exception of "Parsi-
fall will be heard in chronological Or
| der.
Raphael Roche, a grandson of Mo-
cheles, and, like his grandfather, a
| pianist, played before Queen Victoria
the other day, for the second time
this year, as accompanist to Tivadar-
Natchez, the violinist. On the former
occasion her Majesty told Mr.. Roche
J she we'll remembered when his
| grandfather came to court to play
for William w she begged not to
be sent to bed so as to hear the COM
| poser.
| Mr.. Gladstone's musical opinion s
are as follows That he considers
Beethoven the first composer in the
world; that women who are little
stout sing the best; that SO per cent of
the spectators in London go to the
Italian opera exclusively tor the sing
ers and not for the opera down for
representation; and, finally, that the
fresh voice of chorus child in church
is pleasanter to listen to than that of
the best soprano in the universe.
The discussion as to the music
given between the acts in our thea
tres has brought out the fact that in
Germany the best orchestral musi-
clans are paid for their services in the
court theatres of even large cities not
more than from $50 to $40 a month.
Their work is also far more exacting
than here. A we'll informed musi-
clan talking over this matter recent