Concert and Operatic Performance

“Mr. Adolph Neuendorff, who was associated with Carl Rosa in the Wachtel season and who has since that time been director of the pretty little Germania Theatre, has inaugurated very successfully a summer season of musical and dramatic entertainments at Terrace Garden Theatre. There was quite a large audience, principally Germans, at last night’s performance. The theatre and garden were brilliantly lighted up, the entertainment commencing with a concert given in the garden. Mr. Neuendorff conducted a small, but thoroughly efficient orchestra through Auber’s overture, ‘La Sirène,’ a Strauss polka and galop and an eminently skillful arrangement of the themes from ‘La Juive.’ The audience then betook themselves into the theatre to listen to ‘La Fille de Mme. Angot’ in German, a language which succeeds in destroying the polish and finesse of the original. It was very well sung, however, the principal rôles being taken by Mlle. Beckman and Mlle. Heynold, both clever artistes, and Messrs. Witt, Merten and Schütz, all three standard favorites among the Germans.”