STAGE AND STUDIO.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 200, 23 April 1887, Page 6

STAGE AND STUDIO.

(By EtftffcßPE.)

The exhibition of th«v Canterbury Society of Arts, which has just cloned, has been, from a financial point af view, the most 1 successful yet held by tL'b Society. The total receipts have been about £600. Eighty pictures have been Bold, realising £465, about £120 more than last year. Mr Edwin Hodder is engaged on a life of Mr Samuel Morley. Miss Julia Simmons, the Ariel of " The Tempest " at the Melbourne Theatre Royal, met with an unpleasant accident recently. Her Hinging of " Where the bee sucks,'* during which she reclines upon th« traditional bat, was sufficiently satisfactory to , induce an encore, and, while being drawn ■on again-, one of the suspending wires broke, and she fell on the stage, a distance of Sit or Oft. Beyond a shaking, no serious injury was d<<ne, and she was soon able to go on with her part. Mr Simoneen's Italian Opera Company isrenewing at Sydney its Melbourne suecoseep. The otehestra is anid to be of itself a< great creat, far surpapsing any which bag' been available in Sydney the visit off the Austrian B"&nd. Thero are four first? violins, including Herr Dierich and the* veteran MV Rice ;. three second violins, two' viole, two violoncelli, two contra-baesi— one of whom is-Signor Ceschino, whoß© performances a few years ago revealed new' powers of his instrument to Australians — two flutes, one oboe, one bassoon The • brass instruments are two horns, two cornets, three trombones, and thero are also \ tympani and brass drums. ! Australia and Now Zealand aro to be honoured with an early visit from a great and well-knoA'n cantatrice, viz , Miss Amy Sberwin. The New- York " Musical i/>/urier," in ita issue of January 5, gives the Jady's portrait, and also furnishes a eagoliatic notice upon her career, remarking en 2 Jassan t fesat her ** return to America in the early »priug 7 will be received with pira»urov ami, v/b trust, with a rekindling of the ei>tha*»ianm she evoked a few reasons since in fclira city, the South and West, in many New England cities " Miss Sharwtu waa born in Australia of English parent?, and she wm induced m ;«in an Italian opera company at an age wh-on most young ladies- are jutft emerging from the -pension' She made herrl^buc as NcLvnavn Don Pasqvul" " Encouraged by a pronounced success therein, she soon mastered the roles of Luoia, Martha. Amina and Leonora. In January, 1880, directly she reached New York). Miss S-herwin made her American debut with the Oratorio Society. She had the good fortune to score such an instantaneous succoss-imtbo initial performance of 4 'The Damnation of Faust" (witK'the Symphony Society ): as to assign her a lasting place among astis-^ and she appeared in nino succ©9«iv« renderingra of this great work. la the following May she led at the Cincinnati Ftstivii. in May, 18SS; went to Europe, where she remained for two years, studying oratorio and Gorman opera with Stock.^aaaen, ia» Frankfort ; opera and deportment with JSastache, in Pari j , and Mrc Zfilippi, itvtMilati. After appe^mng in London io- opt-pa under Ca^l Kosa, Miss Shorwin raturned to America to »ia& ac v\q vVorcwa ter fiVstival im 1283.' Or* htr raturn to Europe in JSSi Mi-^ Sherwini obtained an sn^agemeu 1 ". ?/. Oo>ent (Suidou, wliere sbe ha- sung with evet-inareuKing success. She h*h taken a, prominent partt in the -\ioht6! ennctrt", ondon for two* pc ii»ons, also with Jojc'vkn in rhe Fiach Choir con certs Mi'B Sherwin «^a»< to arrive in Asßerici on Ma>/ch 15, but her stay thtro would only bo ft short omi, ai fho is undor •engagement to come on to A«iB!:ralaBia, •whore aho eauied her fir«>r lauru'.St