Los Angeles herald., 1890-12-24
ADJUSTMENTS.
Emma Abbott as Gounod's Juliet at
the Los Angeles.


to overfowing. Many of those who
were there Monday were on hand again
last night. ] was in most respects just
such an audien ce as that which was SO
enthusiastic over Ernani on the opening
night; vet it was not a particularly en-
thusiastic audience last night. Why?
Because it was Gounod's Romeo and
Juliet, and not Verdi's Ernani. The
music of the score is full OF tender
ness and sweetness. 1t reminds one
in almost every bar OF Faust. But It
cannot be a popular opera excepting
when produced by people all OF the very
highest rank as singers and before an
audience not simply OF lovers of music,
but of technical musicians. Romeo and
Juliet is an opera Of solos and duets.
Larger combinations are rare in the
score, and if one were not afraid of the
startling originality of the remark he
might say the chorus is conspicuous
from its absence. 70 use phrase heard
only in the Riato the chorus is not in
it. There is the weak point in the
opera. There is sameness about the
music from one end to the other OF all
the five long acts, that is somewhat try
ing to the average seeker after amuse-
ment.. The curtain went up promptly at
s, and the end was at II O'Clock.
Abbott was her own sweet self in the
title role, singing with much tenderness
and sweetness; acting spendidly in the
exigent parts of the role, and really
forming almost the whole opera. Miss
Annandale appears in one act as Stefano.
her first appearance here this season,
which was received with a flattering
round of applause. She sang her one
song with much effectiveness. Michal-
ena as Romeo, sang with hardly so much
acceptableness as on Monday night;
while Broderick as the prior and
Pruette as Mercutio sang we'll up to
their reputation. Neither has very
much to do, but that which fell to their
lot was well done. Richard Karl had
song or two to render as Capulet. and
made most favorable impression in
them. The opera was exquistely staged
and costumed; it was well rendered as
it is; but 1t is not popular opera in
Los Angeles.
Abbott will appear at the matinee this
afternoon in the role of Airline in Balfe's
romantic opera, the Bohemian Girl, and
will delight all who are so fortunate as
to attend by her rendition of Dreamt
Dwelt in Marble Halls and various other
popular airs, which have made the Bo-
hemian Girl one of the favorite operas.
She will be assisted by Lizzie AMMAN
dale, Herr Pachs, William Broderick,
Pruette as Devilshooi, Karl. Ready and
the full strength of her excellent COM
pany.
Tonight Emma Abbott will again ap-
pear in the role of Queen Anne of Eng
land, in Donizettis masterpiece, Anne
Boleyn; the historical events upon
which the plot of the opera hinges, dur
ing the reign of King Henry the VIII,
are we'll known, and have focused the
public attention upon this great histor-
ical work, which has never been pro-
duced in English until presented in all
of its regal grandeur by Abbott and her
company. The entire company will APP
pear in the cast of Anne Boleyn, and its
rendition tonight will prove one of the
greatest operate events III the history
OF Los Angeles. Emma Abbott will
sing in both performances to be given
tomorrow, Christmas day.
In the Bohemian Girl Miss Abbott
will sing the Last Rose of Summer, bor-
rowed from Martha.
SOME INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT EMMA JUCH.
Zone of the most notable OF our Amer
lean horsewomen is Miss Emma Juch,
the prima donna of the opera organza-
ton bearing her name Miss .Juch is
an honorary member of the Paradise
Fin and Feather club, and frequent
that organization at the Lake OF Grand
Isles, in Quebec. She is an occasional
contributor to the columns of Forest and
Stream and the American Angler, and
was made the subject of a very elaborate
editorial on the nobility and gentility of
field sports. One of the lady's favorite
resorts is the valley of the Canadensis,
in the Pocona mountains, Pennsylvania,
where she spends several weeks each
season, with no companion but her
mother, guide, and her two favorite
dogs. ~he has quite a battery at her
home, including some OF the most recent
and expensive results Of the gunmakers'
craft. They added to complete outfit
for the pursuit of the Waltonlan art,
make her the possessor of one of the
finest sporting kits in the country.
unlike other great singers, she ap-
parentlv has no fear of taking cold, but
will don her corduroy shooting costume
and thick water boots to travel over
fields and through swamps. She aston
ished the guests of a fashionable hotel
in the Catskills last August by taking
her Colts repeating rifle and bringing
down a large chicken hawk that had
been depopulating the fowl yard, and by
her frequent excursions to the mountain
trout streams, from which she almost
invariably returned with basket of
beautiful trout, which she would allow
no one but herself to prepare for the
table. Miss Juch has shooting gallery
fitted up in her house, and never fails
when at home to take her rifle practice
with the same regularity as she does
her vocal exercises.
The above is from an eastern ex-
change. Miss Juch will appear at the
Grand, in this city, tomorrow night in
Myerbeer's opera, Les Huguenots. She
is assisted by a very powerful combna-
tion of artists. The sale OF seats the
past two days has been large, and a most
successful season is assured.
At the Los Angeles, next week Ade-
laide Moore will appear with her selected
company in Romeo and Juliet
Paretti's clever pantomime confusion
is drawing immense audiences at the
Dime Museum.- who thoroughly enjoy
| the seasonable production. The mu-
scum and theater will give extra per-
formances tomorrow (ChHstmas, morn
| ing and afternoon, for the increased