The Montague-Turner English Opera Company.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4267, 12 November 1892, Page 3

The Montague-Turner English Opera Company.

Mr Duncan Macullum has announced in another column that this celebrated Company, which has beon making such a stir in the musical circles of the big cities, will appear here for a season of four nights at the Theatre Royal on Monday next, the 14th inst. The operas produced will be the four most popular to English audieuces, viz., "Maritana," "Trovatore,"" Bohomian Girl," and "FaUst," The central figures in opera, around which the other characters revolve, are the leading soprano and the first tenor. TheßO parts are filled by Miss Aunis Montague and Mr Charles Turner in tho present instance, and there is no doubt they are the greatest we have seen here. The Wellington "Press" of tho 28th of May says:—"The 'Maritana' of Miss Annis Montague is ideal in its conception. The intense expression she throws into • 'Tis the Harp in the Air' is overpowering, whilst the onunciation and intonation are most delicately perfeot. Don Csesar de Bazan received a new reading at the hands of Mr Charles Turner. He shirks none of tho music, opening in that most trying of cavatinas ' All tho World Over,' which gives the koy note to Don Cfcsar's character, but which is avoided by other tenors as being of too difficult a nature, Amongst the Company to support these two great operatic "stars" are: Miss E, A. 1 Lambert, Miss Edith Templeton, Miss GraceFreeman.Miss Norah Conway, Mr Fred England, Mr Frank Sceatß, Mr Percy Stuart, Mr Henry Cassier, IbR. Johnson, Mr Herbert Turner, Mr O. Stewart, and others. Mr i'hoo. Massilian, R.A.M., is musical director, Tho prices to be charged are as usual, except that reserved seats are one shilling extra; | although evon this can be avoided by ' purchasing ten reserved seat tickets at a time. If Masterton does not turn out to hear the Montague-Turner Opera Company, then it does not oare for high-olass performances, The box plan is open from to-day at Mr Holmes' stationery warehouse,