Word: wolffe
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...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...
...safe to say that none of the Castle Square productions have displayed the wealth of detail, the magnificent costuming and the striking pietures that are to be seen in Rip Van Winkle. The company is most happily cast. Mr. Wolff surprised the vast audience by giving a wonderfully fife-like performance of Rip, the Village Vagabond,- all the nice tone gradations of the sympathetic scenes were most artistically made, and one cannot soon forget the finale of Act 2, where Rip falls asleep surrounded by Hendrick Hudson and his ghostly crew. Miss Lane was charming-she can do nothing badly...
...Persse has made a great impression as the dashing robber, while Messrs. Wolff, Wooley and Murray have added to their number of friends by their characterizations...
...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...
...cast will be : Don Jose, a brigadier, Mr. Thomas Persse; Escamillo, a toreador, Mr. J. K. Murray; II Dancairo, a smuggler, Mr. William Wolff; II Remendado, a smuggler, Mr. Arthur Wooley; Zuniga, a captain, Mr. John Read; Morales, a brigadier, Mr. Albert Regas; Michaela, a peasant girl, Miss Edith Mason; Frasquita, a gipsy friend of Carmen, Miss Bertha Davis; Mercedes, another gipsy friend, Miss Hattie Ladd; Carmen, a cigarette girl, afterward a gipsy, Miss Clara Lane...