... seems to have settled down into a sort of Chelsea Hospital for. the benefit of veteran dramas. Formosa, after enjoying at Drury Lane a glory like Sylla's, of combining good fortune with bad reputa tion, has been revived in Oxford Street. The sensational ...

... the principal part, is postponed till further notice. Mr. Chatterton, mindful, no doubt, that his present management of Drury Lane dates, in some sort, from the good fortune of Peep o' Day at the Lyceum, revives that popular drama at the large house, ...

... as can well be imagined. The Royal Italian is first of the rival operas in the field with its advertisement. Probably the Drury Lane manage ment is of opinion that not much can be done in the way of operatic enterprise until after Easter. In the mean while ...

... Mr. Benjamin Webster the principal parts are sustained. More of this on a future occasion. Peep 0' Day will remain in the Drury Lane bills till the 2nd of April, when it will be with drawn to make way for Italian opera. The departure of Mr. John S. Clarke ...

... quite recovered from the hoarseness which caused so much disappointment on Saturday, Mdlle. Christine Nilsson appeared at Drury Lane on Tuesday as the heroine of Donizetti's Lucia. How a large audience received this favourite and charming artist may be ...

... Tristano. Band and chorus were good enough to escape adverse criti cism. Abu Hassan and LOca del Cairo were brought out at Drury Lane on Thursday week, much to the gratification of the minority of opera-goers who cherish classical tastes. The former work ...

... having the will to attempt anything and the ability to do most things passably. Hence Mdlle. Sessi has followed her two Drury Lane predecessors without absolute failure it may even be that some who witnessed her effort regard it as a positive success ...

... rob the opera of one of its brightest gems. But the tide of neglect has turned, the Fandango being now regularly danced at Drury Lane and here we have it ready for use in every household where even trifles by Mozart are reverenced. The pianoforte arrangement ...

... T MUSIC 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 persecuted the fair Swede by fits and starts ever since ...

... fittingly bade adieu to one who has delighted a generation. Madame Sainton was efficiently supported by artists from the Drury Lane Opera, and by a group of English singers, including Miss Wynne, Madame Sherrington, Miss Elton, Messrs. Cumming, Thomas ...

... MUSIC 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 distinction, though, like all the composer's operas ...

... present little occasion for remark. Between the production of Otello and the performance of Don Giovanni, on Thursday week, Drury Lane gave only one noteworthy representation. We refer to that of the Huguenots, wherein Madame Barbot made her first and last ...