... MR. ROBERTSON, who has already taken his place as the most original and successful of writers for the English stage, has once more achieved a triumph as an author of genuine comedy. His n ...

... JUST as the Mississippi mania in Paris was succeeded by the South Sea excitement in London, so the rage for Offenbach and Hervé in the French capital seems about to be followed by an outburst ...

... M US IC THE preliminaries of the operatic season are now over, and business has commenced in earnest. With what would be the flowers of May, were May genial enough to allow flowers, come the stars of ...

... THE Italian operas have been in full work since their respective stars arrived; Mesdames Patti and Lucca at one house, and Mdlle. Nilsson at the other presenting attractions between which some ...

... TWO new comedies by authors hitherto unknown to the stage, produced on the same evening, evidence at least a laudable determination on the part of managers to give a trial to others besid ...

... THE most notable of recent events at Covent Garden was the production of Hamlet (we decline to write Amleto), with Mdlle. Sessi as Ophelia. Messrs. Gye and Mapleson have been in a difficulty a ...

... T Le Nozze di Figaro was produced at the Italian Opera, Drury Lane, on Saturday last, with a strong cast, which would have been stronger but for Mdlle. Nilsson's hoarse ness, a malady that has p ...

... NOTING the prevalence of a taste for opéra bouffe, Messrs. Metzler and Co. have issued the first of a series of works likely to gratify it, both as regards quality and cheapness. They begin ...

... 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 ...