Biachi as Mephistopheles, 86 Bianchi, Mlle., 329 Bierstadt, Albert, 160 Bizet, 305 Black, Valentine, 305 _Bohème, La_, 91 _Bohemian Girl, The_, 257, 259 Booth, Edwin, letter from, 16; on stage traditions, 366 Booth, Wilkes, 111 Borde, Mme. de la, in _Les Huguenots_, 13; voice of, 13 Borgia, Lucretia, Grisi as, 159 Bososio, Mlle., as Prascovia, 102 Boucicault, Dion, 15, 262 Brignoli, 13, 14; tour with, 22; temper of, 22, 23; origin of, 24; mascot of, 24, 165; point of view of, 24; anecdote of, 25; death of, 25; in _I Puritani_, 29; in opera with, 36; difficulties with, 41; in Boston with, 44; farewell performance for, 64; Americanisation of, 71; in _Poliuto_, 72; Gottschalk and, 107; mention of, 294, 358 Brougham, John, 15 Bulow, Von, 298 Burnett, Mrs. Frances Hodgson, 281 Burroughs, John, reference to, 288 Butterfly, Madame, 255 Cabanel, 306 Cable, George, 281 Callender, May, 276, 277 Calvé, 81; as Carmen, 291 _Camille_, Matilda Heron in, 15; public attitude toward, 69; mention of, 70; libretto of, 135 Campanini, Italo, 236, 237, 261, 295 Capoul, 184, 236, 237, 295 Carlton, William, 258-261, 265, 268, 275; Marie Roze and, 290 Carmen, 73, 91; Minnie Hauck as, 102; Kellogg in, 231, 236; in English, 254; Marie Roze as, 290; the _rôle_ of, 291; Calvé as, 291; music of, 305 Carvalho, Mme. Miolan-, 77; wig of, 82, 140; as Marguerite, 84 Cary, Annie Louise, 193; Kellogg and, 289, 292-294, 298, 304 _Castille, The Rose of_, 257 Castle, 257, 269, 270 Catherine, in _Star of the North_, 102; jewels for, 104; incident when singing, 267 Châtelet, Théâtre, 140 Christina, ex-Queen, 143, 144 Clarke, James Freeman, 50 Clarkson, Bishop, 300 Clover, Lieutenant, 357 Club, Stanley, 305 Colson, Pauline, tour with, 22; advice of, 26; example in costuming of, 27; illness of, 27 Combermere, Viscountess, 125; anecdote of, 128 Comédie Française, 15 Concerts, private, 168; Buckingham Palace, 179-186, 302; Benedict's, 197; tours, 200-203, 208, 227-230; trials of, 232-234; in Russia, 346 Conklin, Ellen, effect of slavery on, 58, 59 Conly, George, 256, 258, 275 Connaught, Duke of, 183, 184 Contessa, incident in Titjien's _rôle_ of, 169, 170, 239 Cook, W. H., 124 Coquelin, 304 Costa, Sir Michael, 169, 170, 194, 238, 267 Cotogni, 235, 337 Coulsen, 294 Crinkle, Nym, _see_ Wheeler _Crispino e la Comare_, 91, 94; Cobbler in, 94; mention of, 97, 249 _Curiose, Le Donne_, 91 Cushman, Charlotte, attendance at theatre by, 33; evening in Boston with, 50, 52; in Rome with, 160; as Queen Katherine, 270, 271 Cusins, 176, 178 Custer, 57, 58 Czar, the, Ronconi and, 95; daughter of, 182, 183; signature of, 335; physician of, 337; Nihilists and, 338, 343; mourning of, 342; sight of, 350, 351; assassination of, 354, 355 Dahlgren, Admiral, 183, 357 _Dame Blanche, La_, 96 D'Angri, 13