English Comic Opera.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3238, 5 July 1879, Page 2

English Comic Opera.

On Mondajr evening, the , Amateur Opera Company wlio nafe^een performj ing with great success at the. Theatre Eo^rali Auckland; 4 will 0 open 1 Afat''tfca Academy of Music- for; ;a7fihoirt;jseasonj Some of the pe^formprs ,are ;well known by the' Thames .people as vocalists and actors of mo nje^nfabiljlyiinotably Miss .Hunter t —who was,,always to.,lhe, -fcr£i te"lfe cka'ritf deml£de4;fel^'aVsfsj tance—Miss Leaf (Mrs W. H. Heed), Mi! -Hodson, who was last here with Mitchell'^ Opera Company, and previously witfal Simonsen's Company, and,-; Mr.; .Char-losl Warding,' an Auckland gentleman whbse| singings.) toreattfdM a; Kvery.^faToUrablq impression when •here, with, a concert party some few rrionths ago. Thei remainder of the Company are strangers, to us, save by report, and'that speak|foff , them^ in ( the highest term^.,. The ,O,*Beraj in' which the Company liare decided pp first appear here is "The Sorcerer, "Jan opera which has lately had .a great/run ■ in, London -and. the. Provinces ; the ,mu»ie is, by "Mr ' Arthur Sulliran, and theiilWetto; , by Mr W. 8. Gilbert, a gentleman.wb.o,has! lately come to the front aa a' witty pun-1, LR^n^wrUer,,....^ is hardly - qe^essary for, ; us to particularise every character ,in it,;l "suffice it* to say that the music is light arid) sparkling—the word* Hke^iWe^'a^'thje) Auckland papers are unanimous in their* praise of the Opera and it* performers.

The Auckland Star, in speaking of the performance,, says :—" A better Comic Opera Company could not, in all probability, be raised in New Zealand, and this is saying a good deal. The performance, as we have before stated, is far superior to any of the entertainments recently given in town, and visitors can safely calculate on spending a very enjoyable evening." We can only say for ourselves that if the notices the company have received from "the Auckland press are anything to be relied on, the Thames people have a treat in and unless we are greatly mistaken, will not fail to! tike ad,y<fntage<bf i^"f