... . DRURY LANE. Like a sensible man, Sir Augustus Harris still pins his faith to English opera, or, to speak quite accurately, opera in English, and he began another spring season of special performances in this genre on Saturday evening, April 13, the series being started most appropriately with The Bohe mian Girl. The works advertised for the first week are all well-tried 1'avourites, but ...

... . DRURY LANE. Crowded and enthusiastic houses have been the rule so far during the present opera season at Drury Lane, and the audience on Wednesday enjoyed Maritana as though Vincent Wallace's work was quite a novelty. The Don Jose was Mr. Ffrangcon-Davies admirably made up after the manner of a Velasquez picture, and it is a thousand pities that the Welsh baritone's acting capacity is not ...

... . DRURY LANE. In the West End, at any rate, Sir Julius Benedict's charming Irish ballad opera. The Lily of Killarney, has not been heard for several years, though it was quite recently played at the Grand by the Arthur Rousbey company, and the J. W. Turner company have been performing it this week at the Standard. In the lifetime of Carl Rosa Benedicts work was not the least popular item in ...

... . THE LYCEUM. One of the sights of London assuredly is the Lyceum on a first night. Here are gathered the flower of the fashionable, artistic, and learned--an audience that cannot be equalled anywhere in the world. Saturday evening was no exception to the rule. In a box were H.B.H. Princess Louise and the Marquis of Lorne, attended by Col. Collins while scattered over the house were to be ...

... . COVENT GARDEN. The opera season started on Monday, May 13, in most brilliant fashion, the house being thronged through all its tiers right down to the spacious stalls, and the representative audience including the Prince, Princess, and Princesses Victoria and Maud of Wales, the Duke, Duchess, and Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Coburg and Gotlia. the lUuke ana Duchess or jnie, ana tne jjuice ...

... . COVENT GARDEN. One of the variants on the double bill was presented on Thursday, the programme consisting of Pagliacci and PhilAmon et Baucis, Leoncavallo's opera taking the precedence. The casts in both works were familiar ones save for two important points. Madame Fanny Moody made an early annearance this season in a part new to her that of Nedda. while the rule of Baucis was ...

... . COVENT GARDEN. On Wednesday, May 22, just over a year since its first representation at Covent Garden, Verdi's Falstaff was revived here, and we have to note with regret that the veteran Italian composer's lyrical comedy has not yet become what is termed a drawing opera. Certainly a larger audience might have been expected for the first formance in a second season of a work that is in ...

... . COVENT GARDEN. Gilda was one of the first parts, if our memory serves us, in which Madame Melba appeared in this country, and the revival of Rigoletto on Saturday drew a large and brilliant audience, including the Duke and Duchess of Saxe-Coburg aud Gotha; others in the cast besides the Melbourne artist being Signor de Lucia as the Duke, Mdlle, Giulia Ravogli a* Maddelena, and Signor ...

... . COVENT GARDEN. On Saturday evening June 8, 1895, was produced here an historical English opera, libretto by Sir Edward Malet, music by Frederic H. Cowen, entitled:-- Harold or the Norman Conquest 8.1X0*8. FA101! M- p Brozel Alfnoth _ Stigand J Mr. W.Devers. 8 i ward Mr. Jacques Bars Edith Madame Albani Normans. William (Duke of Normandy; Mr. David Bispham William Malet Mr. Kichard Green ...

... . DRURY LANE. On Wednesday evening, June 12, 1895, was presented an Italian adaptation of Sodormann's four-act drama, Heimath, entitled Magda. Magda Eleonora Duse Seiko Ettore Mazaanti Maria Guglicltnina Nlag.izzari Mana A. Giordano- Pero France*ca Qui Ida Bonivcnto Max de VVendolovoski C'iro Galvanl Wefterding Alfredo do Sanctis Barone Keller Dante Capclli Professor Bermann Napoleone ...

... . COVENT GARDEN. The ever-popular Cavalleria Rusticana bad a special interest for Opera habitues on Thursday, by reason of the English debut of the original Italian Santuzza--Madame Bellincioni. This lady is obviously an artist of ability and experience, whose appearance in parts of a larger compass than Santuzza will be awaited with interest. In point of dramatic quality Madame Bellincioni ...

... . COVENT GARDEN. Thursday night was devoted to La Traviata. The most memorable feature in connection with the performance was the appearance of Madame Sembrich after something like ten years' absence from the London boards, and, though at first the audience were prone to bo somewhat lukewarm in their reception of the opera, her striking performance of Violetta soon compassed a hearty and ...