... . THE third appearance of Mme. Adelina Patti on Saturday last attracted a brilliant gathering of the aristocracy and crowds of music lovers, representing all classes of society. The opera chosen for this occasion was Il Barbiere di Siviglia, the comic masterpiece of Rossini, and Mme. Patti, of course, represented the coquettish Rosina. How admirably she fills this attractive but far from easy ...

... GERMAN OPERA, COVENP GARDEN. RICHARD WAGNER'S second opera, Der Fliegende Holländer, was chosen for the sixth of the current series of German operatic performances at Covent Garden, and the cast was strengthened by the aid of a conspicuous ornament of the Royal Italian Opera Company-- Mme. Albani-- as Senta. Her impersonation of this character in Italian representations of The Flying Dutchman ...

... . o adder stuff tnan The Sur ty- Burly or, Number Seven- Twenty- Eiyht, as adapted by Mr. Herman Hendriks from the German, has not been seen on the stage for some time. A farcical comedy which does not make one laugh has no right to exist and to laugh over the childish fun of The Surly-Burly was almost as difficult as to understand how it comes to pass that out of its German original a popular ...

... THE programme at the Avenue Theatre has been completely changed this week. Its more important and more successful feature is now Mr. James Mortimer's Gammon, an adaptation of MM. Labiche and Martin's capital comedy, La Poudre aux Yeux, which had, if we mistake not, a preliminary trial at a matinée some little time ago. Though Gammon begins better than it ends, it affords throughout an amusing ...

... fTRJTER.T fVW TRKATRB To tell the plot of the new Criterion comedy Featherbrain with any intelligibility and yet without exhausting the patience of the reader would be a difficult task, and it is one the accom plishment of which would serve no useful purpose. Tête de Linotte by MM. Barriere and Gondinet, of which Featherbrain is an adaptation, depends for the point of its elaborate intrigue ...

... MR. ALBERY'S Featherbrain at the CRITERION labours under the serious disadvantage of not furnishing a part for Mr. Charles Wyndham, whose name seems to be an indispensable item in the bill of this pop ...