The Pollard Opera Company
evening the company again had a good house, and although the audience in the front seats did not show much enthusiasm it was apparent that the crowded pit and gallery enjoyed the opera immensely. The theme of the piece is pretty far fetched, but the endless complications arising from the confusion of the identity of the King Consort, and the two other high Court personages disguised in the black cloaks invariably causes much amusement, and last night's audience, for the most part, entered heartily into the ludicrousness [of the situations. Buccalossi's music is pretty, and being interpreted as it was hist night lent additional beauty to numbers that appear to have very little attraction when gone over by an instrumentalist or vocalist who: takes the score endeavouring to pick out its catchy numbers. " Love is blind " is perhaps the only item an amateur musician ordinarily would linger over, yet there is beauty in very many of the other numbers, and especially in the "Hush" quartette as sung by Miss M. Beatty ("Don Louis"), Messrs W. Percy ("Don Jose"), A. Stevens ("Don Phillip"), andH. Quealey ("Drotnez"). These characters were very ably depicted, the latter supplying the comedy element in a style which is in a great measure original and is not unduly exaggerated. Miss Mitchell appeared as " Girola" (the belle of Valados), and amongst other items took part in the duet above mentioned, "Love is blind," with Miss Maud Beatty. Miss E. Metcalfe was cast as "Isabel" (the Queen of Castilla), Miss F. Maskell "Clorinda," aud the other principal parts were undertaken by Master C. Albert as "Palomez" and Mr E. Young "Nicholas," while the Queen's pages, the Maids of Honour, etc., were all careful as to detail, and deserve credit, which we give them collectively, space not permitting us to go further. To-night, it ia said, will be the bumper house of the season, -when Yon Suppe's tuneful opera, 'Boccaccio,' will be staged. '
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Thames Star, Volume XXIX, Issue 8620, 26 March 1897, Page 2
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327The Pollard Opera Company Thames Star, Volume XXIX, Issue 8620, 26 March 1897, Page 2
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