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Sydney · Pictures, dances & concerts
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"Mignon" was performed the Gaiety Theatre last night, the principal changes in the cast since the opera was last given here being that Lotario was sung by Signor Verdi, Fillina by Miss E. Sherwin, and Frederic by Miss Edith…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →As there are dramas which possess the charm of perennial attractiveness, so there are actors and actresses who share this rare gift; and while "Struck Oil," which was revived last night at the Theatre Royal, is a type of the former,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Once more, with its fun oathos, and humour "Struck Oil: was revived last evening at this house ans with Mr. J. C. Williamson and Miss Maggie Moore, his accomplished wife, in their original…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Last night Ambroise Thomas's opera " Mignon" was performed by the Montague-Turner Ope[?] Company to an appreciative audience, at the Gaiety Theatre. Quite apart from the music,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Tax anniversary of the wedding day of the host and hostess of "Pomona" was celebrated on the 30th by a most enjoyable dancing party, at which about forty guests were entertained from 9 till past 3 a.m. The…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →BARR’S Boston Serenaders appeared before meagre audiences at the Victoria Theatre on Wednesday and Thursday evenings. The entertainment provided was of an enjoyable…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →“THE Woman of the People” was produced to a moderate house at the Victoria Theatre, Parramatta, on Saturday evening last. As ‘Marie’ and “Sophie de Bas[?]iers” Miss Lily…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Last night Miss Eva Thompson gave her first evening concert at the Masonic Hall, under distinguished patronage and before a large audience. Every seat in the building was full, and the patterre,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A BRIGHT, pleasant and gratifying success was the Catholic concert at, Waverley, on Tuesday night, and whether considered in an elegant musical sense, or in a practical financial one, it was equally…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →The Metropolitan Liedertafel held its second concert for the season for ladies and gentlemen last night, the new Masonic Hall, Castlercagh-street, being used for the purpose. This is the first occasion on which an…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The beautiful gardens and ground in the neighbourhood of Botany are of course the resort of many thousand of the people of Sydney, glad of any opportunity of getting out of the hot and dusty…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →MELBOURNE, Sunday.--Madame Pauline Rita, the English prima donna, and Mr John Badcliff, the premier English flautist, gave one of the most successful concerts ever held in the Town Hall on…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Saturday, being St. David Day, was chosen as a suitable one for a reunion amongst the Welshmen who have thrown their lot with the newer Wales on this side of the globe. A concert formed…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Since Washington Irving crystallised several legends of the Catskill Mountains into the account of Rip Van Winkle's sleep of twenty years, which seemed to the sleeper as but a short nap, no American story has been more…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →On Wednesday night the Manly Town Hall was crowded by a large and fashionable audience, many of whom had come down from Sydney, to witness a dramatic and musical entertainment, in aid of the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →At the Theatre Royal on Saturday night, "Bip Van Winkle" was repeated to an audience which filled the popular places, both on gallery and ground floor, and the piece went well…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Among the plays which may be said specially to convey a moral, none has found more favour with the public them Charles Reade's drama " It's Never roo Late to Mend," which tells the story of a thief's struggle back from crime to…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A concert, the proceeds of which are to be devoted to a fund for the payment of Irish members of Parliament, was given last night at the Gaiety Theatre, and as it was very well[?] attended, the fund should receive a substantial…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →An Irish national concert was given at the Gaiety Theatre last night, in honour of St. Patrick's day. As might have been expected everything was intensely Hibernian. At the back of the stage, facing…
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