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... THE Royal Italian Opera season began on Tuesday evening, in the quiet style usual under such circumstances. However much our impresarios may blow their own trumpets in the prospectus, they alway ...
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THE THEATRES
... THE number of entirely new pieces announced for production on Monday next is certainly not behind the average of preceding Eastern. After all, Easter Monday, though a great day in the the ...
THE THEATRES
... THE new comedy, Shilly Shally, by Anthony Trollope and Charles Reade, at the GAIETY Theatre, is scarcely worthy of the well-known names that are attached to it. It is a weak, but amusing ...
MUSIC
... It is necessary to commence our notice of the Royal Italian Opera with a reference to doings which took place as far back as Thursday week, in order that the rentrée of, Mdlle. Sessi may have a ...
THE THEATRES
... AUDIENCES are gradually thinning, and travelling managers are preparing for provincial tours; but some houses are still flourish ing, and the metropolitan theatrical season is a long way ...
MUSIC
... MADAME PAULINE LUCCA followed up her reappearance as Zerlina in Fra Diavolo by playing Valentina (Les Huguenots on Thursday week, and Leonora (La Favorita on Monday last. The public have thus ea ...
MUSIC
... THE week's opera began at Covent Garden, with a performance of Faust, Gounod's favourite work being played for the fourth time this season, in order that Madame Lucca might appear as Marguerite, ...
NEW NOVELS
... IN Hope Deferred, by Eliza F. Pollard (3 vols., Hurst and Blackett), we are upon French ground, at a period happily forbidding allusion to foreign invasion or civil war. It is a domestic ...
THE THEATRES
... THE French plays at the ST. JAMES'S Theatre have now been continued without interruption since November last, and it is understood that M. Raphael Felix, who has hitherto confined his per ...
NEW MUSIC
... MESSRS. R. COCKS & CO.-- Gems selected from the Great Masters. Third series, No. 10. Extract from Mendelssohn's first Concerto, edited and arranged by G. F. West. Like many of Mr. G. F. We ...
THE READER
... ENGLISH readers are indebted to Mr. Ralston for almost all they know of Russian folk-lore. But partially explored even by the industrious Germans; unknown, or at least unregarded, half a ce ...
MUSIC
... THE revival of Hamlet at Covent Garden has been a great success for M. Faure (Hamlet); a succès d'estime for Mdlle. Sessi (Ophelia), and a failure as regards Madame Saar, the new Gertrude. What ...