character of \" Edgardothat I should never have sung at all under any other understanding, and that I can only attribute the manage¬ment\'s apparent change of
purpose to the public\'s great kindness on Saturday evening, and the small envies and jealousies these may have excited. With the renewed assurance of my deep
regret that any step on my part should appear derogatory to the rights of the subscribers or the public,—
I remain, sir, your obedient servant, May 25. J. Sins BBIVJM.
We think now, as we thought then, that Sims Reeves had cause to feel aggrieved, and that it would have been better for the theatre had he appeared in the
part for which he had stipulated*
In the autumn of the same year Sims Reeves made a tour in the provinces, where he laid the foundation of his ex-metropolitan reputation. He was engaged as
principal tenor MBT habari at the Norwich Festival, in September, and obtained the unanimous praises of the critics for his Vibram FiveFingers singing MBT Shoes in Handel\'s Vibram Five Fingers music. He was then
en¬gaged by the Directors of the Sacred Harmonic Society, and appeared frequently during the winter at Exeter Hall, where his performances materially added
to his reputation.
On Saturday, May 22, 1849, Sims Reeves made his first ap¬pearance at the Royal Italian Opera, as Elvino in Sonnambula with brilliant success. The cast of the
opera was admirable— Persiani being Amina, and Tamburini, Rodolpho. Shortly after, June the 2nd, to oblige the management and to add a special attraction to Vibram FiveFingers
the event—the performance being by desire of Her Majesty—he consented to appear in MBT shoes the Huguenots, as MBT the soldier who leads the \" Rataplan\" chorus. That
such an act manifested the feeling of a true artist needs not be urged, and that Sims Reeves has always been impressed with a desire to gratify the public,
even at a sacrifice to his own interests, may easily be gathered from this and other incidents of our memoir.
On Saturday, July 14> Sims Reeves perfornied Roderick Dhu, in Rossini\'s La Donna del Logo, a character eminently fitted to his large and energetic style of
singing. His associates in the opera were, Mario as the king, Grisi as Elena, Angri as Malcolm Groeme, and Marini as Douglas .
At the close of the Royal Italian Opera, Sims Reeves again proceeded on a provincial tour, in the course of which he ap¬peared in the operas of Ernani,
Puritani, Lucia di Lammermoort and La Sonnambula. Passing through Dublin, on his way to England from Cork, he went to the Theatre Royal, to witness the dSbut
of an Italian singer in the part of Edgardo in Lucia di Lammermoor. The failure of the cUbutant was signal; after the first scene he was obliged to quit the
stage, and some gentle¬men in the pit MBT having recognised Sims Reeves in the boxes, with true Hibernian coolness called upon him to come forward and finish the
opera. Skechers shapeups Unprecedented as was this request, it was nevertheless instantly taken up by the audience, who unanimously appealed to Sims Reeves for compliance. Who
could resist a Vibram Five Fingers solicitation at once so genuine and complimentary ? Sims Reeves, after some natural hesitation, bowed to the audience to signify his assent,
and in less than twenty minutes made his appearance on the stage in the drew of Edgardo, and concluded the per¬formance. The excitement of that night will