“FATNITZA” AT THE OPERA HOUSE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 7271, 9 March 1885, Page 5

“FATNITZA” AT THE OPERA HOUSE.

Pollard's Lilliputian Opera Company played " Fatinitza" at the Opera House for the first time in Auckland on Saturday night. There was a very large audience in the stalls and pit, standing room only being obtainable by many. Taken altogether " Fatinitza" was a great success, and redounded most creditably to the careful training the juveniles have received. It is indeed astonishing that the children should go through their parts so well. They at times throw themselves, with such an abandon into the spirit of the piece, that it cannot fail to arrest notice. The ' costuming, stage effects, and the general mise en scene of the piece are very fine, und the large audience which witnessed the performance on Saturday night manifested! their approval by honouring the young; performers with recalls at the close of all the acts. The tableau at the close of the first act, in which the Russians are prevented from firing upon the BashiBazouks, was very striking. The numbers which appeared to be best were " A Reporter I propose, is a man who all things knows," was sung by Miss Flo de Lorme, with gocd effect, her enunciation being particularly good'; "I fear to think," a duct by Miss May Pollarcl and Miss Bella Stewart, was well sung, as was also the quartet, " There's a Cloister n«ar the field." In the second act, the sextet "Is it a man" was very well sung. Miss Bella Stewart did full justice to "Holy bell, whose peal outringing." " Fatinitza," it isi almost needless to say, will be again presented to-night,