The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-06-12
AT THE OPERA.
The o'Neill Company 60 Open It's En-
gagement Tonight.

The O'Neill Opera Company will open
its weeks engagement tonight with ''Il
Trovatore. " Upon the opening perform
ance much of the success of the engage
ment will depend. Mr.. O'Neill's com
pany has been selected with much care
and it is pronounced to be the best opera
company that has sung in the south since
Emma Abbott's death, and at popular
prices, too.
Gautier, the clever dancer who has out
rivaled Carmencita, and who won favor
here when she was with Carmencita two
years ago and since in the north, is an
added attraction to the opera.
The company is made up of artists of
rank. If the patronage justifies it Man
ager johnson may effect an arrangement
with Manager O'Neill for a second week
The company has been playing in Charles
the most successful ever given in that
city.
Thee for to-hights opera is as fol-
lows:
Leonora. Miss Agnes Delaporte
Azucena Miss Helen ven Doenhoff
IneZ. .,.............. Miss Louise Carmen
Manrlco .................'.. MT. Rlchle Ling
Count di Luna. 49,. ........ Mr.. Arthur SeatOn
Fernando. ......,......M Mr.. William Hamilton
Ruiz. Observation-Disclosures. John Read
Miss Delaporte, who sings ''Leonora, :"
the prima donna part in ''Tfovatore,o is
also a splendid ''Ermlnie," and Miss
Humphreys is Just as well at home in
Faust as in the 'Mikadc." Miss Won
Doenhoff, the contralto of the company,
has a sympathetic and powerful voice and
is, besides, an actress of much ability.
She will surely surprise the people of
Savannah with her rendition Of "Azu-
cenan in tTrovatOre, "
Mr.. Richie Ling, the tenor, has shown
in six weeks of continual singing that his
voice is of a staying quality and is not
only possessed of two high notes to the det-
a voice of even quality of remarkable
compass and sweetness. Mr.. Seaton, the
barytOne 1has been a great favorite in
Charleston and can boast of one OF the
strongest and most sympathetic barytone
voices. Mr. William Hamilton, the
basso, is so welland favorably known as
to make introduction Unnecessary.
Last, but by no means least, Charles a.
Bigelow, principal comedian of this COM
pany, vino has been recognized in the
north as one of the best comedians of the
day, will surely delight the people Of Sa-
vannah with his dry humor and his quaint
sayings and doings.
The chorus, numbering twenty-five peo-
pie, has been chosen by Max Hirshfeld,
the artistic director OF the company with
an eye to good looks as well as good
voices. He has personally or
ganized the whole company for
Mr. O'Neill and to his untiring efforts is
due the completeness in the Ensembles, F"
for which this company was much praised
and admired in Charleston.
1t only remains to say that the company
expects TO make fully as big hit here as
it has done in Charleston. and will show
by earnest and artistic performances how
much it desires to please Savannah's
music-loving people. People who saw the
company's production of ''Cavalieria
Rusticcana" in Charleston for summer
prices pronounced it far superior to the
rendition of the same opera by any first
class company playing at high prices.
Manager O'Neill and his company, num-
bering forty people, arrived in the city
yesterday morning. All of the principals
in the company are at the De Soto.