The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-13
MUSIC AND MUSICIANS
SCALCHI AND HER CONCERT COM
PANY AT ENGLISH'S THURSDAY.
Acts from s"TrOyatOre" and "Martha''
to he Sung i'm Addition to the
Rest of the Programme.

On Thursday night at English's Opera
House will appear the world renowned Sotie
Scalchi and Nine. Berneice Pasquali, to-
gether with one of the strongest companies
of operate artists that has ever gone on
the road in concert. By those who have
heard the great contralto her singing will
never be forgotten. Her strong, rich voice
and grand delivery, and her splendid die
ton have made her the model for singers.
Patti in her palmiest days had to share the
triumphs with this contralto, and even the
great singers of the European opera houses
were placed as second to this most ex-
perienced artist and the favorite of the pub
lie on two continents. Scalchi for fifteen
years has held the first place as the great
least one of her favorite operate roles.
Aside from this, one of the great sopranos
Mime. Berneice Pasquali, will make her first
appearance here on this occasion. Nine
Pasquali made an immense and unexpected
hit with Colonel Mapleson's Imperial Opera
Company, and it is only owing to the fact
there will be no grand opera worthy of the
name in New York this season that both
Pasuuali and Scalchi will be heard in other
cities of the country. The other members
of Nine. Scalchis company are Sig. Pas
quail, the tenor; Sig. A. Albert, baritone;
Mile. Marie Du Bedat, mezzo soprano, and
Sig. c. Gnarro, musical director. The per-
Torrance to be given by this company will
contain atleast two acts Of grand opera
given in costume. Besides this each artist
will sing some favorite number in the first
part of the evenings entertainment The
fourth act of I'll Trovatore" and the second
act of Martha" will be. given.
Mr.. j. S. Leeburger, the manager of the
Scalchi Concert Company, which appears
here this week, speaks in glowing terms of
Miss Marguerite Lemon, predicting for her
a most brilliant future lie says she is at
present occupying the best position of the
kind in New York, but is not singing a
class of music adapted for her voice, which
he pronounces one of the finest in New
York, and much better suited for grand
opera. He seems to feel it but a question
of time, and that limited. before Miss
Lemon win be ranking where her voice and
talents fit herewith the great opera singers
of the day.
London is soon to have its own Bayreuth.
The performances of the "Nibelungen Ring
to be given at Covent Garden promise to be
immensely successful Already the seats
have been sold out for the two cycles, and
apparently it would be easy to arrange an
other successfully The first cycle will be
given during the first week of June and the
second during the last week. 1t will be
sung almost in its entirety. "Das Rhein-
gold will begin at $3.50. and will be sung as
at Bayreuth, without an inteTmission. die
Walkure' win begin at o'clock in the aft
ernoon, and after the first act the intermis-
sion will last for an hour and half, in or
der that the spectators may take their dim
ner. '.Siegfried is to begin at o'clock
with the long intermssion for dinner, and
with '.Gotterdammerung" the same plan
will be adopted. All the operas will close
by IL. The performances of "Gotterdam-
merung'' will begin at 4. and, as they take
place on Saturdays and the restaurants
close at Il O'Clock, they will be concluded at
1880 "Das Rheingoid'' and "Gotterdam-
merung'' will be given with new scenery
especially painted in Vienna, and the direc-
ton of the stage will be entirely in the
hands of Germans. The early hours make
evening dress impossible. but it is an
nounced that women viii allowed to wear
hats in the theater.
Speaking OF the Opera Comique, the
Paris correspondent of the Era says: Ever
since the Opera ClmiQue existed. one or
ether Of our big mEsic publishers has al