New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-05-06

mad with spirits. and a true daughter OF merry
England Mile. Delnas was told by Verdi to get
well into her head that English people are
naturally open-heared. and that the nl ls,,es
classes are reserved and stiff, because drilled
into being so. They fond OF practical jokes
and horse play Dame Quickly is not LADY, nor
indeed are the Fords and Pages In genteei
rank. They good, honest rich and unanecteo
and Ford and Page are prosperous bourgeois or
yeomen. The diva whom he so coached olo
not lose word of what he said. he was SO
pleased with her Intelligence. docility and quick
ness that he intends. should his life be spared.
to write a score for her In which the smile ana
the tear will alternate. She always sang IN
pathetic parts until she took the role OF Dame
Quickly which she rendered in the most ex-
qusitely clever manner Her byplay was de-
licious She is in comic opera what Hor'enso
SCHNEIDER was in boufre opera Mile. Grand
Jean was what Verdi told her to be-soft as
flute Dame Quickly in this garden scene
throws out the threads OF the plot, while Ford
is seeking in the avenue leading to his house 20
wreak vengeance on Falstan for his amorous
designs on Alice az denounced by Pistol ana
Bardolph. The two tableaus in the second act
show the public room in the Garter Inn, ana the
interior OF Ford's house. In the first the mis-
chief-oving Quickly comes 10 tell Falstan now
sensible Alice and Margery are to his declara-
tons Of love 1t is in this scene that the duo OF
which full scope is given to the comcality OF
Mile Delnas, which nobody ever suspected. Tne
buck basket incident is brought into the second
tableau Of this act 1t is an act full OF life ana
fall Of the curtain all the singers were recalled
three times by the house.
The masquerade at Herne's Oak. where Fall
staff having deers horns his head Is
hunted is charming through and through. The
merry wives fairies. the men Of Windsor as
geni holding lanterns In the form Of coleopterae.
rush about the scene and shower darts on
Falstaff. who ends by falling exhausted at the
feet of Ford. The wedding Of Nanette and Fem
ton (the tenor Clemeno winds up the comedy,
and at the close all the vocalists join in fugue.
Verdi would have been better pleased had the
house not bisse the courtesy scene and trfsse the
song "Quand "DETAILS Page" of Falstaff How
ever he had so we'll coached" mis- vOcalsts that
none Of them seemed to notice this applause.
The score of "Falstaff" Is very modern. There
Is little musical tag No phrases are repeated.
Great care was devoted to giving the peculiar
characteristics Of each person muiica express sion,
to mark the different phases Of the action. the
light. flexible music, which has the continuity ~
a brook II only lags to talicZe essential
points and then is ready 10 start off again as
blithely as ever. "Falstaff" MAJ be called a
flower Of inspiration experience. fancy, and tech
meal skill. II has It's roots In Cfmarosa, Gugl-
ielmi Paisello and Rossni But since Rossini
died Wagner and Berlioz came forward. and
Verdi learned from them what a background
orchestration can afford TO human voices.
was able to see Verdi yesterday at his hotel.
He said he hoped at once to return to his farm.
The Parisans killing him with kindness.
The master spoke about Sir James Hudson. the
British Minister at Turin in Count Cavour's
time. Sir James was the best friend that Italy
ever had. The master said that a melancholy
condition OF great age was OUTLYING all ones
friends He had Outlived Cavour. Rattazz
Hudson, Kossuth MaZzn Garibaldi and Saffi.
and he sorely missed the noble figure Of King
Victor Emmanuel in Italian politics E. c.