Show Z B A C students perform grand op opera era if the writer w riter of this article were a resident of cedar city and had to give a leview of the work lone done by the stil students dent of cedar cites branch agricultural college in the opera carmen they perfo performed nned in richfield monday r night light he would have to say gay that the students as well as their musical leader did very creditable work and deserve due praise and commendation but if the same group of singers and actors travel all over the st state ate pretending to show the people of the towns what grand opera oper a means it is a bird of different feathers and we are s sorry to say ay that noboa nobody could get from their performance tle the right idea of what grand opera is and me means first of all the lack of an I 1 accompanying abc acc orchestra creates a wrong impression jon of grand opera work in general and of bizett beautiful and characteristic music in in particular ti bizett carmen without an orchestra is like liver with onions with the onions missing there being no overture and no interludes the cha character aber of the music in spite of the good work done by the gentlemen at the piano was completely obscured anti and entirely lost comparing carmen as shown to us monday by college students with any musical endeavor of students s of better high eh and P high school excels in such work we would have to say sav tapi the only difference between this college opera and high school opera is this that high schools genera generally choose mu musical icat dramas of a lighter lighted vein and of jocular character charac tex hu 1 thi this s college chose for their school performance an opera with tragic ending and our contention is that the character of the work lone done by the high school students is generally equally as good and the only di ference lies in the subject chosen the prima donna of the high school married ed while t ane operas getting n prima dona of ca carmen en is ic being stabbed to death th the e most enjoyable parts of the evening were the introductory remarks by the director the piano playing ng of the accompanist and the singing of carmen although as far as this last mentioned item fiteni is is concerned it constituted at the same time a di disturbing s element for the reason that the lady v who ho played carmen cannen programs gra not being distributed w we e dont don t know who the lady was wa wai so much superior in singing and acting to th the e work of the other performers that it created create d a certain impression of an uneven and not rounded out performance and put the other performers to a decided eci ded disadvantage we repeat that the whole thing called grand opera was proof of splendid intentions and litigant diligent as well veil as intelligent study but e cannot refrain from expressing our opinion that taking the play on a tour with the avowed purpose of showing grand opera Ls is wron imong a a |