The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-04-07
Mrs. Putnam's Gossip of New York
Singers.
Singers.

NJ Ew YORK. April I'm the
Y midst Of the opening-not of
millinery or dress .goods-but Of
spring, with its warming sunshine
bringing signs of life into,the trees and
out of the ground. and clothing nature
in her garb of green, nowhere more
strikingiy evident than in the second
layer of the box of early straw berries,
apparently so red and tempting: in the
midst of all this have. been heard the
dying strains of the winters music.
Grand opera, orchestras, soloists. all
have sung their swan song" The past
week has seen the beginning of fare
wells. / win make an exception OF
Jean de Reszke, he made his "au re-
voir.
Never was the fact that we do not
seem 10 appreciate our joys until we
emphasized than during these past few
days. The public has acted at every
performance as if it could not take its
last lock Grand opera, of course,
leaves the greatest void. Each star
has had an opera this week in which
TO make his or her final performance,
and so each night has witnessed a
thoroughly aroused enthusiasm. mag
Pnificent oral offerings, and thousands of
peopie upon their feet waving hand
peated curtain calls and speeches. And
the singers deserved all; each one
seemed to surpass all past efforts. Es
pecially was this true of Jean de
ReSzlxe in Lohengrin- The music of his
voice still rings in my ears He was in
splendid form and held everyone SPELL
bound. The rumOrs that his voice is
failing and that this is his last season
in grand opera seem silly and ridicu
Ious after hIistening- to his magnificent
81 close Of this
ance the crowd brought him out time
and again. until he made a speech. In
this, which was brief and decidedly
French in pronunciation, he said he
would come again and sing for Amer
icaAs. His brother was in equally good
voice and as impressively dignified as
ever.
AS Ortrud, Schumann-Henik was
superb. Her scene with Bispham as
count was especially fine. Ternina was
lovely, as she always is. Her manners
are most charming. During one Of the
curtain ovations several large and
handsome floral pieces were thrown
upon the stage. She refused tosaccept
them all, Notwithstanding the efforts Of
the male singers to induce her, and
finally picked up one immense wreath
of VioletS and threw 1T over the head
of Edward de Reszke. It was a sim
PIE aCAt bul us SktphNdiAclNy anu Ia =
/ pleased the crowd.
Had the audience been in the humor
| several incidents of this same opera
J might have caused them merriment; it
was a night of little funny ha0-eni~~~S.
J but we thought of nothing but the
! splendid music.
As regards stage Settings. this alb
| sorbed condition is one into which the
| stage management has seemingly tried
/ u educate the audience, but it was
rather amusing to have to imagine the
swan floating gracefully upon the water
/ before our eyes, and these same eyes
/ able to follow a man in white shirt
/ sleeves. crawling behind the chariot.
and not so gracefully either, pushing
the swan along. Just before the time
( for the little brother to fly out, we
could see this same white sleeve in
energetic motions of command to some
one behind the curtains. The wedding
! procession was executed with almost
as much precision as was that of the
couple who excused the confusion by
| saying it was their first wedding But
/ the singing of the bridal chorus COM