Word: lucia
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...audiences which have attended during the last two weeks have given unmistakable evidence of their appreciation of the work done. The opera is splendidly staged and Mr. Hirschfeld has good reason to take pride in the admirable work done by the principals, chorus and orchestra under his direction. "Lucia di Lammermoor" and "Cavalleria Rusticana," a double bill, will follow "Lohengrin...
...Wagnerian repertoire by the company has been made a notable event in every way. During the coming week the Elsas of the cast will be Fatmah Diard and Clara Lane, the former artist making her re-entry as a member of the Castle Square Company on Monday evening. "Lucia di Lammermoor" and "Cavalleria Rusticana" is already in preparation to follow "Lohengrin" on the 15th inst...
AFTER two weeks of a most entertaining series of performances of "Lucia di Lammermoor," the Castle Square Lyric Company takes up Vincent Wallace's "Maritana," considered by many music lovers the best of the lighter operas. Its music is extremely graceful andpleasing and is full of fun, romance and pathos with little tragedy. The plot involves an amorous king, a crafty minister, a soldier of fortune, a country girl (the beloved of the king), soldiers, nobles, common people and gypsies. Its best songs are "Angels that Around Us Hover" "Of Fairy Wand I the Power," "Let Me Like a Soldier...
...most extraordinary successes of the Castle Square lyric stock company is achieved this week by a magnificent presentation of "Lucia di Lammermoor." Donizetti's work is given with attention to detail and a general excellence that has never been attained in this city before. The stage setting is exceedingly harmonious and beautiful, and the costumes of surprising excellence. The performance as a whole is far ahead of many other productions by more pretentious grand opera singers in the past. The laurels of the performance crown the new stars, Mlle. Fatmah Diard and Miss Nina Bertini Humphrys, who has come...
Next week the Castle Square singers will take up for the first time Donizetti's thrilling grand opera, "Lucia Di Lammermoor." This opera is founded on Sir Walter Scott's novel "The Bride of Lammermoor," and the scene is laid in Scotland during the seventeenth century. The heroine, Lucy Ashton, is beset by evil throughout the opera, and finally murders her husband and dies. The final scene is the death of her lover, who stabs himself...