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Music.
MUSIC .
THE EOTAL ITALIAN OPEEA .
The " Trovatore " has run its course for the present season , and Mdlle . ] STey ' s leave of absence from Dresden also ; the other dainties of the month being " Don Pasquale , " " Comte d ' Ory , " and " Luerezia
Borgia , " all preliminary to and now culminating in the grand attraction of the past twenty-eight days , namely , " L'Etoile du Nord . '' "Whatever decay may be apparent in Tamburini , as Dr . Malatesta he is supereminent , and his Alfonso in " Luerezia Borgia " drew rapturous applause from one of the most crowded houses which we have ever seen . In the
second act of " II Barbiere , " given after" Don Pasquale , " Herr Pormes highly distinguished himself as DonBasilio , and we may say that , in her greatest days , Grisi seldom attained higher triumph than in realization of the characters of Norina and Luerezia ; we never heard her in better voice than on " the celebrated Thursday , " which will not soon
pass from the memory of the habitues . All events , however , have merged in the long-delayed , but at last triumphant , representation of " L'Etoile du Nord , " which , " post tot rerum ambitus , " came off on Saturday , July 21 st , with such signal success as to elicit universal admiration .
Doubts of its appearance , owing to repeatedly procrastinated promises and the difficulty of turning it into a " grand " opera , rendered its final achievement pre-eminently a matter of public satisfaction . In " II Crociato in Egitto " we had a German writing in all the spirit of Italian opera ; in " Robert le Diable " the best efforts of the Prench composer Auber were equalled in his own style ; in the " Huguenots "
and " Prophete " were exhibited equal powers for German opera ; so that it only remained to compose such a work as " L'Etoile du Nord , " which amalgamates the ideal of a comic opera with the romantic element constituting the composer ' s forte , to achieve the elaborate success we have the pleasure to record . Halevy is not to be compared with Meyerbeer , nor did Rossini , we opine , when , after "
Guillaume Tell , " he declared in anger at its most unmerited comparative failure , consequent on its defective libretto , that he should wait until the Jews had finished their Sabbath , judge accurately of the time of its duration . Much as we regret Rossini should have adhered to his resolution of composing no more , we acknowledge that Meyerbeer ' s production has , in no slight degree , consoled us under the
disappointment . No opera was ever produced at the Royal Italian Opera with more care and energy , and too much credit cannot be given to the management for the study and splendid finish lavished on each particular element . The scenic effects are worthy of the best efforts of . Mfr . Beverley : the grandeur of the martial gathering when Peter reveals
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Music.
MUSIC .
THE EOTAL ITALIAN OPEEA .
The " Trovatore " has run its course for the present season , and Mdlle . ] STey ' s leave of absence from Dresden also ; the other dainties of the month being " Don Pasquale , " " Comte d ' Ory , " and " Luerezia
Borgia , " all preliminary to and now culminating in the grand attraction of the past twenty-eight days , namely , " L'Etoile du Nord . '' "Whatever decay may be apparent in Tamburini , as Dr . Malatesta he is supereminent , and his Alfonso in " Luerezia Borgia " drew rapturous applause from one of the most crowded houses which we have ever seen . In the
second act of " II Barbiere , " given after" Don Pasquale , " Herr Pormes highly distinguished himself as DonBasilio , and we may say that , in her greatest days , Grisi seldom attained higher triumph than in realization of the characters of Norina and Luerezia ; we never heard her in better voice than on " the celebrated Thursday , " which will not soon
pass from the memory of the habitues . All events , however , have merged in the long-delayed , but at last triumphant , representation of " L'Etoile du Nord , " which , " post tot rerum ambitus , " came off on Saturday , July 21 st , with such signal success as to elicit universal admiration .
Doubts of its appearance , owing to repeatedly procrastinated promises and the difficulty of turning it into a " grand " opera , rendered its final achievement pre-eminently a matter of public satisfaction . In " II Crociato in Egitto " we had a German writing in all the spirit of Italian opera ; in " Robert le Diable " the best efforts of the Prench composer Auber were equalled in his own style ; in the " Huguenots "
and " Prophete " were exhibited equal powers for German opera ; so that it only remained to compose such a work as " L'Etoile du Nord , " which amalgamates the ideal of a comic opera with the romantic element constituting the composer ' s forte , to achieve the elaborate success we have the pleasure to record . Halevy is not to be compared with Meyerbeer , nor did Rossini , we opine , when , after "
Guillaume Tell , " he declared in anger at its most unmerited comparative failure , consequent on its defective libretto , that he should wait until the Jews had finished their Sabbath , judge accurately of the time of its duration . Much as we regret Rossini should have adhered to his resolution of composing no more , we acknowledge that Meyerbeer ' s production has , in no slight degree , consoled us under the
disappointment . No opera was ever produced at the Royal Italian Opera with more care and energy , and too much credit cannot be given to the management for the study and splendid finish lavished on each particular element . The scenic effects are worthy of the best efforts of . Mfr . Beverley : the grandeur of the martial gathering when Peter reveals