The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-10-26
Personal and Other Jo,rtnrs

Augustin Days comedy, "a Night Off"
will be produced at Saratoga Hall on Friday
evening coming by the Lyceum Comedy Com
Iauy under tie management of MeSSrs. Nye
and Bush. This com pany has already adj
vanced to the foremost rank OF the amateurs
of the city under the able instruction and
stage management of Mr.. Tom Irwin, and
the entertainment, which is TO be followed
by dancing. will doubtless be a success.
Miss Mabel Rasner has been specially en-
gagged for the occasion.
Tie performance of "The Red Bird" at
the Tiyoli tomorrow evening Will be for
the benefit Of the attaches of that thenter.
All the world anG his wife are expected
there.
Miss Matilda Lennon, the new contralto
who made such an impression at the Pa
vilion concerts lately, is expected, now that
the fair is over, to take part in some impor-
tant musical event spoken of for the near
future. This will be new means to show
her great vocal talent.
An Interesting number in the programme
of the Passmore concert, announced for
November, the 9TH prox., at Irving Hall,
will be the famous kreutZer Sonata by Miss
Ada Weigel, one of our most accomplished
musicians, and Hermann Brandt (piano and
violin). Among the other participants are
Miss Ellen Atkins, late of the Santley
Opera Company. London; Miss Anna Wood,
contralto and pupil of Mr.. PasSmore, and a
chorus Of sixteen voices. Mr. Harry Reeves,
barytone, Will also be heard for the first
time in concert in San Francisco.
Clara Morris will open at the Baldwin in
Camille" November 10th, and will do
Renee de Moray" also the same week.
Miss Agnes Huntington is in receipt of
cable dispatch from Baroness Burdett-
Coutts consratulatng her upon her success
in Paul Jones'"
Miss .Iubn Stunp- Remnant fnr coyoroI voorc
past a member of Richard Mansteld's COM
pany, has resigned to become the LA of the
No. Clemeuceau Case" She is an
adopted daughter of SybiI tombstone, the
LA of the original company.
Miss Clementine de We're, who made such
a distinct success at the Worcester festival
last month"; has been engaged as the leading
prinla donna at the Taunton musical festival.
European Musical Items.
Translated from the Gazzetta Musicale of Milan.
''Roi d'Ys, by Lalo, will be revived at
the Opera Comique in Paris.
The London symphony concerts will be
given under the direction of Henschel at
Albert Hall.
Sigrid Arnoldsen has been engaged to sing
III Barbere" and Carmen" at the Nicolini
Theater in Florence.
'Lohensrn' will be given at the Opera in
Nantes.
''Werther," by Massenet, will be repre-
sented at the Monnaie Theater in Brussels.
Tristan and Isolde, ''Tannhauser" aud
"ParsfaP' will be given during the winter
at Bayreuth.
A triennial Mendelssohn festival will soon
be inaugurated in London at the Crystal
Palace, which will have the same importance
as the Handel festivals.
A season of opera by Rossini has been
inaugurated in Rome with great success. A
season OF opera by Pergolet and ParsielIo
will follow.
Busoni, the italian composer and pianist
who obtained the Rubinstein prizes for COM
position and piano, has been nominated Pro-
lessor Of the Conservatory of Moscow.
SIgnorlna Guerrina Fabbri has made hit
IN Rome by singing La Cenerentola" and
Lltaliant in Algeri," with her extraordi-
nary voice, perfectly trained. her great tai
ent as an actress and her personal beauty.
III Matrimonio Segreto," by Cmarosa,
was ably given, with great success, at the
court theater of Coburg. This opera, with.
MoZartS Marriage of Figaro" and Ros-
sini's 'Barbiere di Siviglia," forms the triad
OF perfect comic operas.
Miss Sybi1 Sanderson, who is now sing
ing Esclarmonde at the Monnaie Theater
in Brussels, omitted the high notes in her
part after the first night, and the critics all
concur that 1t was decided improvement.
Mile, Juliette Folville, o young French lady
.AVh ihe5cj huo JUDI HulSlltu al opera vi
two acts of considerable merit; the subject
is taken from "Atala," by Chateaubriand.
Rubinstein thinks that the German,
French and italian people are so per cent
musical, and that English people are only 2
per cent.
Viannesi, the Italian director of the or
chestra at the Grand Opera in Paris,
has handed in his resignation to the Di-
rectors 1t will not be accepted, as Sig
Viannesi is considered the best operate
leader in the world.