Pollard's Opera Company.

Thames Star, Volume XXIX, Issue 8611, 16 March 1897, Page 3

Pollard's Opera Company.

A WEEK OF MELODY AND FUN

On Saturday next this ever-welcome combination will renew acquaintance with a local audience, and as several of the operas are new to us a few words regarding them may prove of interest. : Saturday—" Falka." j This charming work is by Chassaigne, a French composer of repute, • It is brimful of melody, some of the numbers being real musical gems, such j an item as the melodious ballad ''Even- j tide " being familiar to most musicians. ' The dialogue is bright and wit.ty, and the plot is acknowledged as the best ever used for this class of opera. Monday—"Nell Gwynne,"

This melodious work is by that most prolific composer Planquette, and is acknowledged by most critics as leing his Wst effort. The plot deals with an incident in the life of Nell Gwynne, the celebrated actress and Court favo- j rite, and introduces such historical i characters as Roshester, Buckingham^ and the amusement-loving monarch Charles ll.' The music of this work is considered the most tuneful Planquette has given us. Most music lovers are fatniikr with the charming ballads, "Tio Tac," "Sweetheart if thou be nigh/ and '• Only an orange girl." Tuesday—" Rip Van Winkle." This work was produced here during the last visitof the company. Since then it has been redressed and mounted and improved to siWi an extent that it now ranks as one of the company's best efforts. Wednesday—" Paul Jones." This is another old favourite, and one that is always welcome. It -Joes not matter how often this clever company visits us, the above work will always be called for if only to renew acquaintance ■with that amusing young artist" The Insect." Thursday—"The Black Cloaks/ This charming French opera was also produced during the last visit he«e, wheuitwasaverywetnight,andtheaudience only fair. It has been altered and improved to such an extent, that it will be practically a new opera. Friday—" Boccaccio."

•" The gem of the season " so runs the advertisement and there must be some ..truth in it, when we find that it ran in Wellington for eight nights, and in Auckland for six to crowded houses, the universal verdict being " that it was the best all round production ef comic opera ever seen in the colony," Saturday—Farewell Performance. The opera to be produced for this, j the last appearance for at least two years of tins company, has not been decided on. It will be left entirely to the public themselves, a list of operas will be submitted, and a plebiscite taken, when the one with the Majority will be staged. This list of popular works should please the most fastidious and ensure a successful season. Ladies, note this—a few choice desigi s and colors in costumes, one of each shade •nly, direct importation by A. Court, Beehive Stores, Pollen street. [Advt.] Plusheb, trimmings, '4c, in the very latest colors. A 1 value in best silks. See them, at Court's Beehive Stores, Pollen street.—[Advt.] ! Umbrellas Another -Shipment just to hand, at our well-known cash prices. Geo. Cullen and Co—[Aijyt] . Skkt It To His Mother In Gebmaxt. — Mr Jacob Esbenseu, who is in the employ of the Chicago Lumber Co., at Dcs Monies, lowa, says:—•' I have jubs sent some medicine back to my siother in the old country, that I know from personal nap to be the bew ined,ii4ne in the world for rheumatism, having used it in my family for Severn! years. It is called Chamberlain's Pain Js»hn It always does the work." For sale by J. E. Hansel, Chemist.— Aj>tt.