... THE revival of Hamlet at Covent Garden has been a great success for M. Faure (Hamlet); a succès d'estime for Mdlle. Sessi (Ophelia), and a failure as regards Madame Saar, the new Gertrude. What ...

... 9 THE revival of Cymbeline at the QUEEN'S Theatre does not ap pear to have been attended with any remarkable success. Any way it has enjoyed but five weeks' existence, during part of whic ...

... 9 THE opera season at Covent Garden reached its highest pitch of interest on Saturday last, when Madame Adelina Patti reap peared, fresh from her remarkable triumphs at Vienna. Madame Patti is a ...

... THE season at Covent Garden Theatre continues in full vigour, five performances a week being now the rule. That five are not too many for London opera-goers, the large audiences which assemble n ...

... A HUNDRED years hence those of our great grandchildren who may be curious as to the ways of their ancestors in 1870, will receive great help in their investigations if they are fortunate en ...

... IN connection with Covent Garden Theatre we have again to speak of artists rather than operas. Happily, however, there is an immediate prospect of change; Gelmina, the new work by Prince Poniato ...

... PRINCE PONIATOWSKI'S new opera, Gelmina, was to have been produced at Covent Garden on Tuesday last; and crowds of amateurs flocked thither in hope of seeing it, only, however, to be disappointe ...

... A GLANCE at the pages of the weekly newspaper which devotes itself almost exclusively to theatrical matters would be sufficient to in dicate that we are entering upon the provincial seaso ...

... IN Middlemarch (Book IV., Blackwood and Sons), we have less incident and more analysis than in the preceding instalments of the story. We learn more of most of the personages, but have bu ...

... DURING the Derby and Ascot weeks, and the week intervening, the London operatic season is at its height, crowded audiences being a rule with very few exceptions. It is not just now, there fore, ...

... LUCY FITZADAM: an Autobiography (2 vols., Smith and Elder). This very clever book, we are glad to say, is plainly a first novel, and as such it is indeed full of promise for the future. T ...

... ONLY a few years ago the sort of musical burlesque which is known as opera bouffe was regarded as an exotic little adapted to our climate, and the attempt of the GAIETY Theatre to transfe ...