Show PI PLAYS AY OF OP TIlE WEEK T There has been but on one Madam Ia am Butterfly Isan is Js isan an event ent We shall ah as a's be bo grateful to Manager George r for tor bringing that opera to Salt Lake an and especially that he was wal able ablo to havo It given I en a third time which was by no imo means tho the Intention of or the management man man- at the he beginning Th There re Is the perfection of or tragedy y It groups group all time the passions and all nil the tho elements of human nature that lint ma may bo he found in Otello an and Isolde and Lohengrin an and I it has ha found those elements clements o of tho the pin play right in iii this 1 latter tIny life of ours The Tho thing is tho the more impressive s- s sive perhaps because we realize the nearness 9 of or tho ho wonderful portrayal alOno al Ono One Incident in the action will linger Inger long with a pitiful distinctness Madam Ia um Butterfly was told 1 by Pinkerton when he ho left lert her that he would return when tho the robins nested again and for three years cars she has looked forward to the recurrence of or that event ont When at the last t time the American Ican con consul ul comes to her she ul asks s shim him lilt when hen the robins nest in iii his country and anti ho he evades the question AntI And she he with a 10 loyalty that has never been been excelled though thought often orten equalled b by other women seeks a defense for him In cherishing the belief that robIn robins robins rob rob- In ins do 10 not nest each year car in America as they do In In Japan There Is a n perfection of or fanc fancy which I is a verity of life lire in that lint The opera throughout was a revelation No wonder It has won the indorsement of or the tho discerning all nIl over tho the countr country And Amid of course the music has hns b been Em ono one of its chief elements clements of success Men en who Will complain of oC the unintelligibility of oC grand grand' opera music found the lie objection tion Uon In Madam Butterfly They rhey could un understand under cr- cr stand stanl it Th They ma may not havo known the processes processes- but they did understand the time harsh chords that expressed ed the thc 1 denunciation of the little woman oman The They knew the tender passages of harmony In the love lo scenes The They knew thi the 1 minor strains when sorrow darkened the picture And Anti they understood that crashing of brass that wall sail an of or horns and scream of violins when the 10 loyal 01 wife thrust thrust her her soul I Into the tho Great Unknown Unknown Unknown-a a final sacrifice at tho the feet eel of her husband I Of or the three women who sang the title role roJe perhaps perhaps per per- haps Madam was was most satisfying She combines combines com corn bines the tho powers of a a. really great actress with a gift girt of oC song rarely equalled In many respects the time first performance performance performance per per- was best It ga gave another opportunity to heat hear Mr lr Sheehan who has certainly reser reserved for tor his cr very cry richest est gifts gIrts of or song In In n r way it Jt is a t. t t o have witnessed the tho pIn play anti and to have heard the music One is better for forIt forit or it and more generous and likely to look on life lite with witha a n broader an and less absolute finality It I Is the event of the season and it will vili not be forgotten in years |