... Lucia` that she made her debut and her first great impression in London; but that part has now been definitively adopted at Drury Lane by Mdlle. Nilsson. Mdile. Nilsson was one of the most charming Marthas; but she has given up the part of Martha to Mdme ...

... HISTORICAL DRAMA AT DRURY LANE. MR. WILLS has been unhappy in his selection of Peveril of the Peakl for the groundwork of his new historical play, and still more unhappy, we think, in the superstructure which he has erected upon thi3 foundation. The ...

... ITALIAAT OPERA, DRURY LANE. THERE is something so remarkable in the fact that an operetta by Weber and an opera by Mozart should both have remained untouched by our managers until the present day, that the first question one feels inclined to ask respecting ...

... ITALIAN OPERA, DRURY LANE. MDLLE. CHRISTINE NILSSON, whose genius specially fits her for the repre- sentation of sentimental parts, is never heard to more advantage than in the chaimingly sentimental part of Lucia, which she undertook on the occasion ...

... Dennis's Appius and Virginia was played at Drury Lane in 1709, but with ill-success, although the dramatist had invented for his work a new kind of stage thunder. Garrick appeared as Virginius at Drury Lane in 1754 in a dull tragedy by one Henry Crisp ...

... CORRESPONDENCE. SHAKSPEARE REARRANGED. To the EDITOR of the PALL MALL GAZETTE. SIR,-Since I saw the spectacular play at Drury Lane, which you allowed me to describe in your columns, it has occurred to me that this admirable plan of rearrangement, in which ...

... delights in pantomime must this season content himself with the entertainments of that class provided at Covent Garden and Drury Lane. From the other and smaller houses harlequin and clown have been ousted by burlesque and melodrama, and, should no conservative ...

... TEE CATARACT OF THE GANGES. WH7ENEVFR a change of entertainment is deemed advisable at Drury Lane- Theatre, it is the custom of its present lessee to issue a kind of proclamr- tion inviting public attention to his proceedings, and explaining and extolling ...

... Parisian feerie La Biche aux Bois, which, under the name of The Princess who was changed into a Deer,' was presented at Drury Lane Theatre some five-and-twenty years ago, but. with ill success, the audience of that time being unprepared for the lengthy ...

... THE SHA UGHfRA UN. IN his Irish drama of The Shaughraun, produced at Drury Lane Theatre, Mr. Boucicault has not ventured to be particularly new or original. He has been content to repeat a familiar story, well assured that the public finds a childlike ...

... night Weber's unknown opera of Abu Hlassan and Mozart's unktnown opera of L'Oca del Cairo are to be produced at the Drury Lane Opera, with a ddbutante, Mdlle. Lewitzky, in the prima donna part of Mozart's work, Signor Mario's first appearance this ...

... In any case, it is certain that Scott's titles are dealt with after a very capricious fashion by his adapter.. Thus at Drury Lane The Fortunes of Nigel becomes King o' Scots in London; Kenilworth appears as Amy Robsart; and now Ivanhoe is ...