The daily critic., 1890-06-24
HJIUSEJlENTS.



The music of Czibulka's "Amorita
IS as softly sweet and sersuous as its
nome. ltis music breathcd TO melt In
dying lanCuours on the summer air.
music sighed in thrilling unison with
the ihToubiug of The large and serious
summer stars. The voice of the soft
and passionate South is In Its delicious
CGdeuCes the low tinkle of guitars and
the pleading notes Of scren8des The
w0rld-oid song Of the nightingale 90 the
rose swells and falls in its cntrauci1g
numbers. Itisthe very ecstacv of 'sum.
mCr opera in perinei1u, @ midsummer
madness of seductive harmonics.
10 takes o pretty fair sort Of summer
opera company not 10 rob 'Amorita'
of Its distinctive sentiment and all
Tervasive feeling. That the Lamont
Company should therefore. have given
so generally crcdilabIe a performance
of The opera last evening IS very gener-
ally 10 the credit Of the Lamont Com.
ranY u was prettily put upon the
stage, and the love songs, serenades
and descriptive melody in which it
abounds were given with reasonable
air Of carnostness and conviction. The
lovely duet in the last act is one of the
numbers in which Miss Lamont IS al
WAYS at her best, and though the lack
Of sympathetic quality and Gexibility
in the fine, heroic baritone Of Mr.. vii.
son somewhat marred its effect it was
warmly and descrvedly redemanded.
There are stirring choral effects in
'Amorita and last night the chorus
seemed TO rise 10 more vigor and vol
ume than at any previous period Of our
acquaintance. The always pretty and
popular mdHdOliHdtd of the shapelv III.
Tie students was rendered very nicely
and as usual with the result Of several
encores. The principals all did we'll.
Miss Lamont winning the unsparinr
plaudlts OF her numerous admirers, as
Is her custom, and Miss Hanlev
strengthening her previously favorable
impression in a role which afforded her
o better opportunity for displaying her
real merits as a singer Her dHgcl0 was
given with much more discretion and
less of swagger and bravado than we
have sometimes seen IL in the hands of
others of the formidable coutralto
swash. bucklers of the lyric boards. and
was all the more enjoyable for its ele.
ment Of surprise.
Mr.. Wilson sang the more martial
phrases Of Fra Bom5drda most salts
factorily; Mr.. Broderick as LOrersi
and Miss Baker as Perpe'Va, were cx.
cellent, as usual, and MIR. De Lanre
once more touched solid earth, got
down to hard pan, and acknowledged
himself upon his native heath In the
eminently congenial role Of CdsiFuccj.
Mr. De Lange is not n comedian who Is
accustomed, or likely TO be content.
with less than a dozen recalls on n
topical song, and last night, in familiar
but favorite selection, he got there with
quite the regulation number.
No notice Of "Amorita" would be
complete without mention Of the small
chocolate Caramels, "Jcss" and
John, whose dance In realistic Congo
uniform this year, as last, made the
popular hit OF the evening, and scarcely
gave the audience q chance 20 gaze upon
the charms Of the vcilcd CD beauties In
The rciinuc Of the Ambassador from
Morocco. The opera and the odalisquos,
ns well as the small SenCramblaus. will
DC continued through the week. The
house was crowded last night 10 in.
iringement on "standing-room" prlvi.
leges, but with the men In airy Aeglfgee
array and the girls prcttier than ever
otherwise possible in the lightest of
summer films and gauzes, the actual as
well as apparent effect was one of cool.
ness and comfort.