Year: 1872

OPENING OF THE sEAsoN-PATu AND MARIO.


The opening of the musical season was cele-
brated at steinway Hall last night by much larger and


more brilliant audience than one would have expected
TO find under ordinary circumstances so carly IN the
year All the seats occupied and the lobby was
crowded. Fashionable society was fairly represented
and multitude Of notable people from the world OF art
were there asothe barbarc face OF Rubnsen and ihc
portly figure Of Wieniawsh being conspicuous among
them. IL indeed occasion OF more than common


interest The return Mario event that had stirred


the curiosity or the enthusiasm Of half the town. There
were hundreds who remembered the sweet voice ana
noble delivery Of seventeen years ago, and longed to
welcome the great artist more as an OLD Irlehu
There still more who knew the famous tenor Only
by the tradition Of their elders and eager even W


look upon the singer whUse name illustrates one OF tnc
brightest chapters in musical history. lie did not ap
near last night till the end of the first part and then be
merely took his share In the quintet rum
"Un Ballo in Maschera" scherzOd Johd' ho
was warmly received as he came upon INC
stage yet not with any superfuous enthusiasm
people were busy perhaps, trying to trace IN that
we-preserved gentleman, with ruddy face anu u"in
beard the Fernando who won all hearts ana ch"I a.
eyes and ears so many seasons ago. Let US cil 'e


as enderly as we cam the art remains oil course'"'
pure STYLE the elegant phrasing, the Keen sehspy'


but that is nearly all. At moments here ana lhero





across tho wide cha OF years shut our eyes to the
scene before u.s. and again the youthful Mario ILLS the
stage with his presence, and the voice when hau 10


rings sweet and pure through the chambers Of meoS
But il is after all melancholy recollection For thoe
who cannot associate the ruin with its pristine Soes
the exhibition must be terribly disappointing; lot tnosc
who do recall the past is necessarily painful Slgnor
Mario sang little last night. His only solo, on the ps'
was the Spiro gentl from La Favorita the romanza
which he almost made immortal. Time was when ne
seemed TO sing that right out Of his heart ana nc are"
tears with it from the dryest eyes. Now losing
in part the control Of his voice, nc Has
lost something Of his power OF expression;
vet one can see that the deheacy OF HIS
feeling is unimpaired, though hisimuseles may reso 10
obey his will He sings with extreme care sllppinB
over the Ugh notes and dropping the highest altogether
His voice was little too husky before he had hhsheu'
Int he was recalled and gave the pretty song which
Hattop wrote for him. d" Good bye, sweetheart, good
bye" Itwas q sad thing to hear yet how beautifully
he used what resources Time had left him, how nuch
tenderness and elegance the old man threw INTO those
familiar lines We are glad to say that HIS "oi0o'no
grew hearter and heartier as the evening "oIo AWAY
He deserves the highest testimony Of our respect or
ne NJ the few really great singers OF generation
and II will be pity If he do not clrry away Win MN
substantal mark Of the esteem in which Americans sun
hold him.


OF Miss CarIota Patti do not know that we need
say great deal. She has come back Just ABOUT WHAT
she was when she went away. The radical transfor
nation in her style and manner" which Mr. strakOsch
is not perceptibe TO the average listener
We have the same astonishing tricks Of yocazaon the
same airy trnng with the mechanical difficulties Oi art
The same phenomenal purity and compass Oh voice, ana
the same lack Of real sentiment which always chaeer
tied the singing of this extraordinary artist She Is not
everything that great singer mnsb Dei out
jn her own line she Is unsurpassed ana


A..
vailed Madame Peschka-Leutner in part Of the famous
Voriot,ons df Brarourd by Proch, which the German
nra donna sang so often in Boston and New-fOrk ana
an the more orid variations Miss Patti showed decidedly
the more facility of the two She sang the Ardo 81 M
censI and Sparg d. dmGre ldgriDe from Lucia ana
almost put the flute oDbgato out OF eountenance; ana
she amused the audience with one OF her fayorite bal
lads Within mile of Ednboro' town. Miss Cary was
also cordially received and sang usually very nat
uralIy and sweetly Sig Ronconi made himself
as funny and as usetql. a. F22ss9le MI. CASTOR
Gottscbak did wei in the quintet and there was good
fIIestra under Mr. Behrens. Finally there were TWO
newcomers in the company and both proved themselves
decided acquisitions. Miss Teresa Carreno leit us ABOUT
six years ago as infant phenomenon she comes
pack beautiful and accomplished young woman oea-
tined for conquess She played first, with the orches-
ira Mendelssohn's panoforte concerto in G MINOR III
has been 50 much and well played in New-York that
be choice was bold one and do not think 1t was
altogether wise Her playing was correct, intelligent
and to certain degree delicate; but 1t lacked distinctive
character aud the quick second movement was some
what deficient in yigor But when she was recalled and
came back with lively dance measure, the hidden lire
of her Southern nature broke forth Her style became
free and almost fantastic yet chasened with an IN
descrbabe grace and beauty which fascinated every
body NJ Sauret the yiOinist is very young man
Of The very highest promise. He belongs To the romantic
school and is remarkable chiefly for the curious perec
ton of his highest notes and secondly for inc freedom
and ease of his style He played Fdntaisie on nun
garan airs by Ernst and for recall the Cht mt JtHd