19 MARCH 1853, Page 11

PARISIAN THEATRICALS.

The precautions which were taken by Ulysses to render himself impreg- nable against the fascinations of the Syrens, we strongly recommend to all English managers who may hear of the prodigious success of Les AMOUM do Diable,—the new opera, which M. Grisar, abandoning the light and comic style, and envious of the fame of a Meyerbeer, has com- posed for the Theatre Lyrique. The very common notion of a female devil in love with a human being is taken for its foundation ; and then comes a crowd of incidents taken from previous diableries, more especially from Robert is Diabk. But then, the decoration is so superb, and the female devil is so admirably sung and acted by Mademoiselle Colson, that people have enough gratification for their money, and the crowd that almost intercepts the thoroughfare of the Boulevard du Temple is perfectly satisfied with its evening's entertainment. Now, if the piece were trans- ferred to the sort of English theatre which would attempt it, we should have the old story, with middling effects and a less than middling devil ; and the unhappy manager, in addition to the mortification of his failure, would probably be anathematized by a bishop or two for his profanity in meddling with things infernal.