... ALTHOUGH both operas are in the height of their season, the doings of both present little that is noticeable. The list of new singers has been exhausted, and first nights are few and far betwe ...

... THE THE A TRES WITH one important exception, the theatres have not put forth any especial novelty by way of attraction to holiday folk at Whitsuntide. The programmes of the west-end houses remain unch ...

... THE production of Rossini's Otello at Drury Lane, on Tuesday, claims precedence in any notice of the week's music. Not that there is much in the work itself which specially entitles it to such a ...

... RECENT doings at the two opera houses present little occasion for remark. Between the production of Otello and the performance of Don Giovanni, on Thursday week, Drury Lane gave only one notewor ...

... HERR REICHARDT'S new song, I love and I am loved (Duff and Stewart) is one of the best the composer has yet published. Its construction is somewhat after that of an operatic scena, the cha ...

... THE pretty German story of Undine has furnished Mr. Reece with the theme of the new extravaganza now per forming at the Olympic Theatre. The author has put forth the statement that his pi ...

... THE musical season flags more and more as it approaches the end. True, there is continued activity at the opera houses, but such concerts as are given remind one of the dropping shots that follo ...

... THE Royal Italian Opera is closing with a series of per formances in which the four prime donne, Mesdames Titiens, Patti, Lucca, and Sessi, play the agreeable part of bénéficiaires. Whether the ...

... THE Royal Italian Opera season quietly came to an end on Saturday last with a performance of Meyerbeer's L'Etoile du Nord; in which Madame Patti again sus tained the ro1e of Catterina. This lady ...

... THE opera season has closed, and while managers are counting their gains-- or losses, we may take a retro spective glance at the work done from a point of view which regards more the interests o ...

... THE late George John Warren, Lord Vernon, devoted all his life to an exposition and commentary of Dante's Divine Comedy. And to no nobler aim could the life of an independent scholar and ...

... WITH the exception of war maps, and one or two books upon tactics, the newly-bound and damp-smelling volumes, almost wet from the press, consist of reissues of old and favourite authors, ed ...