THEATRICAL GOSSIP.

Evening Star, Issue 4311, 20 December 1876, Page 1

THEATRICAL GOSSIP.

female tight-rope wJjSSfIKS ttSTS l for tfe &3fcK. w e e^ aVC W "*Wi* much given to t fe «nJ he fairly forced the tears' frK'S for two months, to re7mV wLfeSSE " Royal Company went down toSanfodLl! ' bid him farewell and iFhearty jSSfIJS' i would assist his restK,ratSTto 8 recovery would be certain * Siw^7* FrankUwlor has opened in *H&S!Z press ion cause! by cellent singing and acting £ %S£ " t Pantomime The Real's is yTTSc^ cess sat Christmas to. produce «Henry V ' with Chaplin, Thome/Bartiett, iadSwi - tromSyduey-the expenses of whicn tfib " " comes off will be L& a week? Mljeronl and h,s w,fe.are atm playing-ff fl&ffiSS and are my nice 1 'inde&< Haiw sKd£ that was him as Diogenes, and Vplage m the «Marble Heart. £ WiliS Circus is doing very good business, and leaves, for up country next week, rethrniS at Christmas.: ]V. S. Pill**, the >eotcE comedian opened at St. George's HalT-in place of the Fakir-with Tom Rinford R ■ Skinner and a Miss AUeson, - flashy London concert-hall singer, but if no *f m' • \ t T gU add at the Academy of Music "Saratoga" has been reprodncSf - with only moderate success, My old friend Rosnatigoes to America by the next Califorman, steamer. - " At Sydney the new Italian Opera Company is carrying everything before them. Ihey opened in " Trovatore," and We< since produced "UnßaNo," «LuW"*'ll 5?"*%" IF*? 1 *" "Sonnambula> *nd . Faust. The last-mentioned haßbeenwi ■ mimense-success, having already been pUyed - five times. The 'Sydney Herald'»ys of '; the company:—« So far. there has certain!* been nothmgof its kind better, if «o good, \ take it altogether, in Sydney. We havelSa, ' many opera companies here, manyifine «- tists, many seasons distinguished for' excel* • lence in one department or another, but''(rethink that never yet has ope?a been produced in so complete a style as "we have it vi this season." The. cast of -"T^vatore.'*" was as followsj—Leonora, Signora(juj3agnini; Azucena, Signora Yenosta; Mantfe*. Signor Paladini; Conte di XunaT Signor Grlandini; Inez, Signora Parodi Fabris: Huiz, ignof Fabris; Eerwndo/-Signor Cisella. Of the prima donna, the 'Herald' says:—"Though she- is not what Wfi would call a great actjress, she i$ perfectly natural and thoroughly elega A \n her style, and she has an exquisite Pure and fresh in quajity, distinct both in enunciation and execution, the notes oome forth clear as a bell and BW«eetas a flute." Ijhe contralto is a splendid actress, andito her* acting she adds the charm of a iEtke voio«/ artistically used.' Her lowe* notes - are said to have a remarkable quality; titer are perfectly resonant even, in the deepest tones, .u*d her voice haß great compass. The critic is fairly enchanted with Signor Paladini, of whom he writes :—"His voice is his charm.; it may, without hesitation; be pronounced one of the finest tenor voices ever heard in, the colonies. It has thai quality which, without any noise, comes through a full chorus and ocheatra direct and distinct to his audience. And there is snch perfect ease, too, about his Binging; no gat ping for particularly high notes, no straining for effect. His voice comes quite as naturally from the highest as from the middle register of his voice, and all through there is a brilliancy which "enchants his audience." The Orlandiai of 'the company is, as I surmised, the husband of the late Agatha States, with : whose splendid voice most opera-goers Jin Australia have become acquainted. Signor ((a'ioria is conductor,.and he has under him'a .got/d Zayistowskis are still .in kVdney, where jb>q,pre Madame Marie - D.nreV an d George Collier., Baker and Farroa ,are .still Paying in conjunction iwith- Clara •Stephenso." l ' B company in Tasmania, and* the l Fakir remai" 8 * n Adelaide. Sanders, ■' We harpist, is at Brisbane, in conjunction with •a troupe of Japw' ? aud-Billy Barlow is doing the Murray distrK"' ts ' Madame Sinionse. n has parted with most, of her old companv** an< * in the early part of the month Wk 1 * tt Melbourne reprior .to an v : uterprovincial teut ami overland trip have formed a comic .qperaV 9 combinatioß r to travel shortly, amongst 'which MeMotley, tenor ; B»rrington, "baJ** » Marfe bam, coinique, under the jnanK* *& M. L. .Raphael. * There was little new in theatrical blatter* in America, when the last mail left. Sot£«» and Boueicault (the "American Congfe." and the " Shaughraun") still crowd th> theatres of New York. Miss Neilson is delighting tke people of Philadelphia wilh her Juliet and Kosalind. .One of operas, "The Flying Dutchman," has been produced m the same city. Two new nlavs " Clouds •' and " L fe," have been proSuced in Aew Y ork." George Fawcett Rowe is at bt. Louis, aud Miss Oarey continues to win a large crop of golden opinions in San Francisco. The row about the Georgia Minstrels wiil be heard of inlhe Colonies before long - Phil Kirby declares that he has been swindled by a 'F-riseo agent; and that nobody but himself has the right to announce the original Georgians. White there is little room for disbelieving that tfo lot who have goue to Sydney are i have my doubts whetherthe so-calledoriginal Georgians are half so good as interested petsons are declaring them to be. PaOMPTEK. '