AN AMERICAN OPERA.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4559, 15 August 1883, Page 3

AN AMERICAN OPERA.

The Pall Mall Gazette writes :—Com- ■' Blaints are often made of the want of ♦riginality in; America literature, and those who make them love to tura their --, eyes from the t super-refined Americj % Athens of the Atlantic seaboard to that - wild west from which the fresh stream of distinctively;national thought and feeling ,is one day to flow. It is impossible to say how far the hopes of such persons may be > t even raised by,the comic opera "Don ' Filibusto," which, if it doss not aqtualiy , hail from the west, itself, at least "draws' its inspiration from the wild life of one part of it, the great adventurous borderland of Mexico 'and; the United States^. An •'■■' American critic, dwelling on the sneoess which the piece has achieved in New York, ■"> attributes ml resnlt to the " peculiar - betutlei of the opera, which are mainly. , r thope of rhythm, melody., colour, q^nd ! *"'ntf& ibtioß.'*' Of whibh beautiesleMht ; foH^sriiff serTe as a specimen; it is the .; " I»n|f, pf,Seiior Sancho's cowboys :— . tiki Cowboy. — I'm the howler from the "• ><■*■?■'>,; j pspiries of the West; "„■ *If>you want to die with tefror look at. ff -. ';.-._.me. ■ v ■ ~ I'm chain lighting—if I ain't may I bf -' ,T ::-.J. Jblessed! . - . • \.- . . ":, Pm the snorter of the boundleßS perarie Chorue.—He's a killer and a hater; \ He's the great annihilator;, - .v \ He's the terror ol the. boundless •Ji,.-. ' ' -\f perarie., •• "^,. ■ , ;> - > ?.- Becead, Cowboy .-I'm the snoozev from the . j-l- tipper trail $.=,'- ---.; x s -> Vm the revellstin'ißurder and in gore j *..;<';■' . 1 can bust .note Pullman coaahes on < -^— \ ttorail I Than any one who's worked the jeb .-.i;..-: ■■ ■■„ !-,.-before. \ , -<u>' i.. Chorus.—He's a snorter and a snoozer; : ■•',. ■'■ ■ ,M, • :He's thetiunk*lineabuser; a.; $ -pJ '•■■! He's the man" who puts the sleeper ! .> >■- ;; ]'*■ ,i • -, on the rail. - : ThiM (Cowboy.—l'm the^ double-jawed •:>,> .a-'.^x hyena from the East ; ■ szi-.f' >'" ■ rmthe blazing bloody blissard of the 1 &q*& •'." -> States: -.' '" . j I'm the celebrated slogger; I'm the I '-' ""■■' • beast;'. " - ,' .' I Ui«\i:l ?.,,! I"can snatch a man balds-Headed -' . while he waits. •? :■ •: ;.- Chorus.—He's a double-jawed hyena ; He's the villain of the scena; He can snatch a man bald-headed -while he waits.