... HER MAJESTY'S OPERA.-- Mr. Mapleson's prospectus for the coming season is almost as remarkable as that of Mr. Gye for plain straightforwardness and absence of fine writing. Here and there the Drury La ...

... Theatres IT has been affirmed by curious observers that it is possible to note the precise moment when the roar of traffic in London, which never altogether ceases, attains its minimum point, lying pr ...

... iiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiillllllliHilS DER RING DES NIBELUNGEN, VON RICHARD WAGNER (Schott and Co.).-- The libretto of an opera is a thing as a rule dismissed lightly enough as a harm ...

... Theatres SIGNOR ROSSI'S performance of Romeo presented him in a widely different character from any he has hitherto attempted here, and may therefore be said to have indicated the range of his powers, ...

... THE pretty German story of Undine has furnished Mr. Reece with the theme of the new extravaganza now per forming at the Olympic Theatre. The author has put forth the statement that his pi ...

... 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 ...

... jjBfji ASM '/.civ.V; vS. 'vv'v:.: V SPvCWS THE theatres which were closed during the summer months have one by one reopened their doors, and there now remains only one house of any importance which h ...

... THE three performances which took place at Covent Garden after the benefit of Signor Mario, and the last of which closed the season, showed no falling off in attraction, though the risk of an an ...

... EASTER is no longer the period of dramatic novelties that it was wont to be, and the custom of bringing out fairy extravaganzas at that time has passed away with Mr. Planché and his school. Never thel ...

... HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.-- Mr. Mapleson's prospectus for the approaching season does not require a long initiatory notice. The subscription is limited to twenty nights, and the theatre opens on Saturd ...

... FREDA, by the author of Mrs. Jerningham's Journal (3'vols.: Bentley).-- No one can hope to enjoy this book who is not ready for the nonce to cast all care for vraisemblance and probability to the ...

... A NEW drama, entitled The Barricade, produced at the DUKE'S Theatre (late the Holborn) on Saturday last, is a dramatic version of M. Victor Hugo's famous romance, Les Misérables, which has been perf ...