MADAME CARANDINI'S COBTCERT.

Southland Times, Issue 994, 29 July 1868, Page 2

MADAME CARANDINI'S COBTCERT.

A rather sparse audience -assembled at the Theatre Jastjiight to welcome our old favorities, the Cararidini Company, who, it may be rjemembered, performed here exactly a year ago. On that occasion Madame Carandini was suffering from a severe cold, and her voice was only once fairly heard (in ' Angels ever bright and fair'), but now she appears to have recovered her full powers, and her voice I told last night, especially in the upper notes, with magnificent effect. In Miss Eosina there was no room for improvement ; she is now, as then, one of the most finished ballad singers we have ever heard. Miss Fanny decidedly has improved, both in voice and style, and Mr Sherwin was in much better voice than at any time during his last visit. The programme was an excellent one, and, we need scarcely say, was admirably performed, and warmly appreciated. It included many old favorities, and some new additions to their repertoire, which merit special notice. Among others Balfe's song ' The Bells,' well rendered by Mr Sherwin. Horsleig's fine quartette ' Oft in the stilly night.' Verdi's aria . ' Come Music,' (' La mia Letizia') _from ' Lombardi,' splendidly given by Madame Carandini. Balfe's duet on Longfellow's words ' Beware, trust her not,' sung with most charming and piquant expression by Misses Eosina and Fanny, and the celebrated miserere scene from 'II Trovatore,' including the Soprano scena ' D'ainor sull' ali rosee,' and the tenor air ' Ah, che la morte.' Madame Carandini and Mr Sherwin sang beautifully in their respective voles of Leonora and Manrico, and equally well, although in a different style, in the duett from '.Fra Diavolo.' The very florid and difficult cavatina from Eosini's 'Barbiere' — ' Una voce poco fa,' (originally written for Soprano, but transposed for Contralto) received full justice from Miss Fanny, who gave 'The Murmur of the Shell' (Mrs Norton) for the encore. The songs * The Harp that .once through Tara's Halls,' 'I meet him on my mountain way' and ' Let me like a Soldier Fall' were respectively: rendered by Madame Carandini, Miss Eosina and Mr Shirwin with their usual ; skill, as were the other familiar pieces, but 1 we must specially mention Miss Eosina's ' Sweet Spirit hear my Prayer.' The en- , cores were numerous, and all acceded to. We must call attention to a breach of" good manners on the part of a few of the : audience, in stamping a most objectionable accompaniment with their feet, thereby greatly imparing the enjoyment of others. ■ We hope this will not occur in future. I The juveniles might also dispense with; the greater portion of their noise to the ; advantage of the audience. ,