MUSGROVE'S OPERA COMPANY

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 8 July 1907, Page 3

MUSGROVE'S OPERA COMPANY

. INEXPLICABLE HAPPENING. , Received Uth. 1.1 a.m. ' i ■ Sydney, July 7. ] Serious charges have been Levelled l»v > Mr Jlusgrove against a leading member j J of his German Opera Company. The public have been disappointed en several occasions by a change of programme, even after they had taken teats. Matters reached a climax »Mt night Hitherto the ostensible reason giwn for changes was the illness of thh or that principal, but the frequency of such occurrences might lead to the !>- lief that an epidemic was raging in the company. Friday's matinee had to be abandoned, and the money returned. I last night "Valkyrie"' was stag,.-d. One of the leading performers docs not appear until the second act. Bb.- did i not come at all. Then the company agreed to sing "The Flying Dutchman," the sceii-Ty for which had already been packed for ( the Netf Zealand tour,but it was unpacked rapidly and the perform ime • commenced. Tlien, Mr Musgrove as-erts, the Jinband of *>' singer in this piece would nut go on unless certain demands were lulfilM/ ller part was eventually taken by n *6orus girl, and the opera was carried /ihroogh. 'jr Mr Musgrove, in a hitler interview, # declares that it almost impossible to lieliere that all these incidents and illnesses have not some connected basc. v