AMUSEMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 5 August 1907, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS.

MR GEORGE MUSGROVE'S 01 RAND OPERA SEASON. The visit to New Plymouth of Mr George Musgrove's Itoyal Grand Opera Company on Monday and Tuesday evenings of next week will be an important event with our musical enthusiasts as this will lie the first time on record that we will have a grand opera brought to us. About six years ago Mr Musgrove brought his large English Opera Company to New' Zealand but they kept to the East Toast, and it was the success of that tour that induced Mr Musgrove to include in his present visit to the colonies an early trip to New Zealand. The success of the present com-

I•iiial!■ hi in Australia is well-known to us here, and the six weeks' season at the Princess's Theatre, Melbourne, established a record for that large theatre. The company, including chorus, orchestra. ballet and staff, of over a hundred members, conclude their Auckland season this week, and leave for New Plymouth, by a special daylight trip, by steamer, next Sunday. The opening production next Monday will lie. Wagmer's masterful combination, "Lohengrin." to be followed on the Tuesday by another complete production, Gounod's well-known work, "Faust." Both operas will 1h? given in the same complete manner that distinguishes Mr Musgrove's management. The prices of admission are advertised to-day—the dress circle and reserved stalls at 7s 6d, unreserved stalls ss, and the pit 3s. The l>ox plan for both performances will be opened on Wednesday morning next at nine o'clock at the Collier Piano Co.'s.

CARIiENO. New Plymouth is to be honored !y a visit on Saturday next of Madame Teresa Carreno, the great piauist who has been crauting such a stir in Australia and down South. Madame Qirreno is a great celebrity as a pianist, and in Europe her artistic standing is equal to the best that the world has I produced during the past 20 years. Whilst Madame Carreno has especially distinguished herself by producing a t»n« twice as powerful as the male pianist of the *une calibre, she has developed every side of thq musical art, ami siie covers the whole range of pianoforte literature. She is equally magnificent in Beethoven and Chopin, and citn rouse her audience to a pitch of enthusiasm with the Liszt Rhapsody, and charm them with the exquisite delicacy of her interpretation of one of her own simple waltzes.

RICHARDS' VAUDEVILLE SEASONTho vaudeville company sent to \nv Zealand bv Air Harry Kiekards, which ojk'Tls at the Opera House on Friday evening next, excels, it is said, any that have it, judging from the reputations jKHsessed by such stars as King and llenson, Fred Russell, Cassie XValmer, and Charleno and Charlene. Charlene is an exceedingly clever juggler. after the style or' Cinquevalli. Of the Charlene a Southern eontem|«>ravy wrote as follows:—"A' truly dazzling and stoiling feat, which created a sensation. was that in which Charlme jugirled with tiaring torches, keeping I'm-'u burning and iryratiug in mid air voth cath»'rinfMvheel-like. and other rhvtlnnc<3 effects mo«t fascinating to witPe—. Madame Charlene is an accomplished musician, and probably the moat *kilU»d executant on the xylophone seen here." Plan of reserved seats opens this ninmtofr the Collier Ptano Co.'-.,

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