There was an Italian who wrote an opera that was all about Figaro,the Nossy di Figaro was the name of it.

" Mrs. Wilberforce had never heard that opera,indeed, had never heard of it.

When Cimarosa's opera of Matrimonio Segreto was performed before the Emperor Joseph, he invited all the singers to a banquet, and then in a fit of enthusiasm, sent them all back to the theatre to play and sing the whole opera over again!Foreign Review.

Catharinus Elling has ventured into the larger fields of music-forms, and has produced operas, symphonies, and oratorios, as well as chamber music and songs.

I married me to a clefer prima donna, unt composed a great opera, which vas finer as anything Herr Wagner has efer done.

At the Pergola, which is a large and splendid theatre, I have seen two operas; the one, L'Italiana in Algieri, which I saw before at Milan last year; the other, the Barbieri di Seviglia by Rossini, which afforded to my ears the most delightful musical feast they ever enjoyed.

The engagement of the Señorita Rosita Campaneo was for four weeks, during which Mr. King called frequently and attended the opera constantly.

Estcourt was a writer for the stage as well as actor, and had shown his agreement with the Spectators dramatic criticisms by ridiculing the Italian opera with an interlude called Prunella.

The mere physical effect of those sheets of score paper was, until she could manage to control it, such as to make any continuance of the labor of translating his opera, impossible.

We must say, however, we would prefer to see our mourning friends go the whole figure, and not visit the opera in weeds.

He was to tell him that the king was his most ardent admirer; that he wanted him to come at once to Munich, to live there in comfort, at the king's expense, to complete his Nibelung operas, and produce them forthwith.

He supposed that all he had to do was to go to Paris, finish this opera, get it accepted through the influence of his countryman and colleague, Meyerbeer, andwake up some morning famous and wealthy.

Greatly as we admired the opera and the comedy, we conceived his unbounded talents capable of something higher still.

Encouraged by the revival of his popularity, Dryden now ventured to bring forward the opera of "King Arthur," originally designed as an entertainment to Charles II; "Albion and Albanius" being written as a sort of introductory masque upon the occasion.

Wagner conducted the second opera himself (also "Rienzi," after the first few performances), and gave so much satisfaction that he was shortly afterwards appointed to the position of royal conductor (which he held about six years).

Paula considered the opera, but gave it up after she had kept him working over it for weeks because the soprano part wasn't big enough.

His friend Liszt was then directing the opera at Weimar.

"I left her a week ago," he went on to explain,"it must have been the day Doctor Wollaston fell illon a promise not to come back until I had got this opera of mine into the shape she wants.

Sometimes he gives operas as well as dramas, and there is always a ballo, with transformation of one figure into another, which forms part of the performance.

What pity it was these froward misses and masters of musick had not been engag'd to entertain the court of some King of Morocco, that could have known a good opera from a bad one!

She was sometimes a little afraid when leaving the opera late at night; but there was a pleasant feeling of protection in the idea that a friend of her father's was in Rome, who knew better than the Signor how to keep out of quarrels.

Even as it was, the world has undoubtedly lost an immortal opera or two through his unfortunate participation in the rebellion.

Steele and Addison were taken by his desire to nationalize the opera, and put native music to words that were English and had literature in them.

I here saw performed the opera of Don Giovanni of Mozart, with the ballo of La pazza per amore.

(Curtain again falls, and STOEPEL plays the entire opera of ERNANI for two hours.