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WRG CYCLE Wagner's Great Music- Drama Begun at the Opera-House. “Das Rheingold,” the pretude to Wag- ner’e @reat music-drama, “Der Ring Des Nibelungen,” was presented for the first time this seagon at the Opera-Houre last night, The three other operas are (o follow in proper sequence, each without cuts, in the manner of Bayreuth. All in all, the perfor@ance was of bigh merit. There were lapses of stage management and crude workings of machinery that proper care would have avoided; but the cast was excellent, Mr. Paur con- ducted with epirit and sympathy end the orchestra was at ite best. A finer bit of acting than the scene in Nibelheim between Van Dyck as Loge, Frie@riche as Alberigh and Breuer ag Mime io rarely eees. Van Dyek's superb impersonation fs well known to New Yorkers, but Friedriche's wes new. He fully eugjsined ple Euro Pean reputation and made an astonish ing display of volo, Unfortunately he was off the pitey tn the qurme of the By OLGA NETHERSOLE. (Written Exclusively for The Evening World.) IN THREE LESSONS. Cupsrigh, the Press Prttahiog Compeny. A ee tere werd LESSON NO. 2. The Balsony Scene. EE Gream that hae thus opened its vista of romance, @ romance thet eet the great poet's muse a-gallop- tag through all the land of fancy in hic mind, te in the heart of Juliet when she reaches her chamber after the guests on Rave gone. Romeo ie in the first madness of =e that onty a Juillet, his Jullet, ring, The knowledge of h seemed to teapire, bother him, and the scene lost mugh of Bo, continuing the fever of the night, its impresstveness tm consequence. Brever’s Mime was an excellent bit of characterization, Van Rooy's unrivalled Wotan, with splendi@ gomortty, needs no new pratee; nor do? Krema’s Fricka and @chumann-Heink's Erde, both of whom j Were in luscious voice. Apologies were made for Lempricre Pringie's Fatner on account of hoarseness. Munimann was the other giant. Susan Strong, Oliteka, Olga Pevny, Devries and Jacques Bars completed the cast. There was a good audience, that eat in alent attention until the curtain fell, and then abowed its appreciation ef ithe performance in a warmly genefens “| Of his awakened qoul, as she steals away from the mengtony of her chamber, out upon the baleony, bathed in the cool white light of the moon, and listens to the rustling of the trees ag they whisper, in ber fancy, to the stars, those three magic syliables—Romeo, Romeo, Romeo! This ts the atmosphere of the balcony scene. You must exert your imagina- ton to its most exquisite tension of faney, that your voice, and, above all, your face, are in an ecetasy of love. Above all avold self-consciousness when you first step upon the balcony. It ts one of the great diMculties that harass the inexperienced Juliets the first france in this scene, Julfet is a part that requires a com- plete and entire attention to her emo- ‘ i 4 tional evolution, uninterrupted by any ——_ a AONE SCRE — q oh Michael R. Brennan, Superintendent of | of eestion! trick or moinenre aMostallom | 1, 1.6 couteasion to hereelt and goad the Telegraph Bureau at Police Head- ‘The entire play, from the rise of the! should not be spoken’ with even a * F Jaat curtain to the fail of the curtain tn| thought that Romeo hears it. MISS BRERW A BRIDE. ve | Bhe le Wedded to Michael R. Bren- the ast, demands "8 half-audible line: diaturesd to your Smperaty ‘entatecee a ‘Shall | hear more or shail I speak at thier’ Church, Lexington avenue and Twenty- Tuller. i scarcely an interruption to the lines sekinae an copeciasly, exactimy character | that follow for Jullet, beginning: reapec ‘Tia but thy name, that ie my enemy ce Toma, a eee c2 be, beautiful) Untli the moment that she hears ane Romeo ia. soos te Hie, earaee. Rome» speak to her she has consid: when reached fred erself a alone, there- een be says, fore tie fs & dou! 4 terror and indig- re Mag? voice when she hears him t ‘Ratt Lore 8 Sess soem mained woes T mig —s . for the intimate revelations of bec “ confession Were never meant for sigh ts the result of a mane | Ror contenst Sop slenent ame PEEMIEE | aims ot om ae set tl attempt to al nlght suffer if you can, and feel Qo stembicst on my counsel? The love as it om before Romeo has half con- ne Pee rns nar’ chased We raphy Ta tet teas sexerly oa think. Welt the over the balcony, with love in her "t unow a Fuller case ane t Be caten a gilm ee, her loyer, because was intended for yawn, because Mrs Crom that aoihts the Vatnony ‘cones Alexander Hudnut, the founder of the @p so late, This may sound rid! Dractically the greatest love acene famous pharmacy at Ann street and pat that ie the way poor Shakespeare | jy Fomantic drama, wow, {he peloony, Soe eer oe prod Broadway, dieg at Brighton, England, abused at times. From hatter a 5 - eee Porat Foltet has no thew | ee en beae een euLths Tullet f0l-| 15 le seventioth: your, speaks.” says Romeo, and ator word that le not woven abe ene Romeo. once you have given new form ani personality of The climax of the scene ts empha-| It was under Mr. Hudnut's manage- shape to his admiration; you are an/ 1 think A ‘actress, experienced or not,| *!#¢d by slow delivery and peta 2 ment that the store which bere his eae ee ae OD ar nted, mee | can fall to satiaty any audience in this| {he exit, for when Juliet ts gone there | red onal reputation. Of heaven’. that “‘salls upon the | wonderful scene if she but read Juijet's| i# only {he si) the night and Ro. | name acquired @ net bosom of the air.” lines intelligent); . peo In the ehadow. | Besinnine his business career in a Was there ever such marvellous inep!- | There Is alt the anxiety of @ young| ,,D'eli on those last tender lines of rug store of the old fash- ration as : ese | Ines to stir one's nest | girl's surrender to a first embrace, then : Diue-pill type, in Bil the mudden cautious womanhood that | Ow-tieh: foal-aight, sarting te uch ewes {) » sorrow Court street Brooklyn, in 188 he took gents Of tha lovesick git ‘abees She is full of the sudden philosophy |"! *!! sy aoot-night tilt t be morrow, | up his quarters in the old Herald Bulld- rt gees for the first time the wound) her fove has born in her. eee t fhat love has given It, for your next Sweet, good night JE "he. keynote prosperity was a this famous balcony scene are! reie tua of love, by Summer's ripening brveth. = a if gull of ar) Lrembiing: ‘they May prove a deastoons Gower when tere ve) C-~ & struck when he estabiished his public SUT, me ep ponte ciee| "ffi Mtg set co fice FOE | mae, citi Ne Te, at ou! Z ‘4 adopted as & sta om tem- fe alien yetery ot the quiet aight OM niger: e - it u . she erat whi ; menee, as though fo 8] to take your thease playing Lele. pope, a | pb hattoanet sold his store in 180 for yn apne prayer” y “UPS! works Oe seen but by atmospheric im- ee the sanctity of ieee ean athe a QQel! of BF your motions inrts ot (me strength Died in » Theatre, Tsien pote od ‘The interruption of the nurse's call x Reames, wheretore . | Joseph Eitelberg, seventy years old, Brett eae at eater aby samt; Nsw | whlch makes an exit, should not be al- Tee om | a tallor, ving at 10 Lexington evenus Ti set, be bet sworn my tere, emotion. Seneral current of pe and = loyed in Proctor’s Pleasure Pal- ent from the 4 she confesses her love, but, remem-! balcony. enter with tupeine end iene one, i ul ‘from heart disease. quarters, will be married to-day to Miss | called Grace, Agathe Drown ot Ot. 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