Word: roles
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Miss Lane was a charming Marguerite. From her first entrance to her lonely prison cell, where her life goes out, she realized fully the sweetness and dramatic strength of the role. No one will soon forget the picture she made at the close of the opera, when the bare prison walls opened and Marguerite is seen amid the clouds, her face picturing the rapture she has lost on earth...
...cast of the opera employs for the first time the united strength of the entire company. The two prima donnas, Miss Lane and Miss Mason alternate in the role of Marguerite-Gounod's music being too great a tax on any one voice for eight performances. Mr. Wm. Wolff has the part of Mephistopheles, which is entirely suited to his magnificent voice. Mephisto is a new role for Mr. Wolff. The public has seen him in roles of almost every description since the opening of the opera season...
Faust, the title role, is cast with Mr. Persse. Mr. Murray as Valentine is extremely happy. The part is that of a dashing soldier, calling for characteristics possessed by Mr. Murray to a marked degree...
...acting throughout the play was of a high order and far above the standard usually set by an amateur cast. In particular the way in which Schurz played the role of Argan was noteworthy. In many places his acting was worthy of a high place upon the professional stage, and his reading of the French lines was almost perfect in accent...
...members of the Castle Square Opera Company will be happily cast. Mr. Wolff bears the chief burden of the piece on his sturdy shoulders in the title role of Rip. In every way this part should suit Mr. Wolff and his peculiar robust style. Mr. Persse, Mr. Murray and Mr. Wooley will be seen in character parts, while charming and dainty Clara Lane plays the dual role of the wife in the prologue and the child grown to womanhood...