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Show 'it is also one of which people never tire. There are so many familiar suatches of music that come back to memory when listening to it, that for the time one is carried away to forgotten days when Conlson, Parodi and Patti delighted our youthful ears by the tunefulness of their voices. Marie Stone was not herself last evening. even-ing. She appeared to be suffering from hoarseness to such an extent that at one time she entirely failed on a high register note; but her toilet was magnificent and her acting superb. As "Leonora," she was the ideal character, char-acter, and what skins she made in the music those who know her best did not fail to attribute to illness; so all through the piece she carried the sympathy sym-pathy of her audience with her. In the lirst act she received a recall, and later on a very handsome boimet was handed her as a tribute of appreciation. What can be said of Josephine Bartlett Bart-lett Davis? As "Azuoeua" she was more charming than ever, and her splendid contralto voice was at its best. She never failed once to arouse enthusiasm, both by her thorough conception and acting of the role and her faultless vocalization. voca-lization. To her belong the honors of the evening by long odds, and she received re-ceived them in the prison scene of the last act, her rendering of "Back to our Mountain," in the duet with !-Man-rico," gaining a most deserved encore. en-core. Josephine Davis is without a rival in such parts as "Azueena." In the second act, in the scene between "Azticena" and "Maurieo," there never was a liner exhibition of pathos and passion, fear and horror; aud the singing sing-ing of both the artists was (lawless. Mr. Karl, as usual, was very line, and his interpretation of the character of "Maurieo" left no room for the imagination imagin-ation to suggest an improvement. In the beautiful duet, in the last act, his rendering of "I have sighed to rest me," was received with a burst of applause ap-plause which must have been most gratifying to him. Of course he was indebted to Marie Stone for the perfect success of this scene, but albeit he was invisible to the audience, his splendid voice rolled out in such volume as to leave no doubt that Tom Karl was singing, sing-ing, though in hiding: The scene brought out a recall. In the second scene of the second act, Mr. Macdouald's pinging of a delightful solo was applauded to the echo and earned an encore. This gentleman is . t, i f. ji t wormy in an ins enuea urs, ami ins voice is very line. Mr. Cowles and Helen Feltham were without opportunity opportu-nity to display auy great powers, but what they did was well done. The choruses deserve special mention. It is seldom that the many beautiful concerted vocal pieces of "Trovatore" have been better treated, and the world renowned "anvil chorus" was received with a perfect furore, which brought a repetition. The evening Was a delightful de-lightful one, long to be remembered; and the large audience went home well satisfied with what they had heard and seen . Tonight is the last of the Bostonian's season, and the opera is "The Musketeers." Musket-eers." SALT LAKE THEATRE. Another upper story audience witnessed wit-nessed the second performance of "The Great Metropolis" at the Salt Lake theatre, with about the same results as on t he previous evening. Tonight the Home Dramatic club will give "Held by tho Enemy," and as a great deal of "hard woilc has been done by the club In the'way of rehearsals and conscientious study, to which has been added good coaching, there is little lit-tle room to doubt the success of the performance. per-formance. Our home talent is of a very fair histrionic order and deserves encouragement. en-couragement. The theater should bo crowded tonight. AML'SEMESTS. "TROVATOISB" AT TUB (SHAN'T) OPERA HOISE. Last evening there "was a crowded house at the Grand to listen to Verdi's beautiful music in 'Trovatore." The audience was composed of Salt Lake's most select society people and a largo number of strangers who are visiting the city. The opera is au old favorite, aud |
