Word: operas
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...Italian Opera (Maretzek's troupe) has been for the past two weeks at the Boston Theatre, and the season has proved a failure both financially and musically. Lucca and Jamet are not able to create a success, when all the other artists and the entire support are so very poor. Mlle. Ilma di Murska has certainly a brilliant voice and marvellous execution, but is not a singer who appeals to the feelings, nor does one care to hear her many times. Tamberlik may have been a fine singer twenty-five years ago, but at present he is not much superior...
...author possesses, our time and tune may seem very bad. It is easy to see that some enthusiastic member of a society, with much voice and deficient musical education, may cause the tune to err slightly in the course of a long song with chorus. Even opera-choruses, with all the aids of conductor and orchestra, sometimes offend in this. But as to our time, we are very seldom much amiss. Men sing with a will, and are pretty sure to come out correctly. And it must also be remembered that we do not sing so much in the interests...
...Green, of the same class, in response to the "First Ten," delivered himself of a gushing speech, and wound up with an original interpretation of an air from French opera...
AMONG the most widely known and conspicuous traits in the character of the late lamented Prince of Erie, was his inordinate passion for making a display. He builds an opera-house, and runs it at a great loss, for the sole purpose of making his name prominent before the public as a patron-saint of the histrionic profession. He enrolls and magnificently equips a regiment of soldiers, aspiring to military glory, if not by deeds of valor on the battle-field, at least by gaudy uniform in time of peace, and by brandishing in front of the "Bloody Ninth...
...gratifying to many of our readers to learn that Aimee will appear in French Opera at the Globe Theatre some time in March...