Three versions of AUBER'S Opera Le Domino Noir are already
ad- vertised, at Covent Garden, the St. James's, and the Olympic. How many managers mean to play in this genie of dominos? The Olympic has got the start ; though, in so doing, VESTBIS, contrary to her usual custom, has been in too great a hurry : and the rare occurrence at the Olympic of an imperfect performance marred the first night of the Mock Dorniso. The " black domino" is the disguise assumed by a lovely young donna, who haunts the fancy of Julio de Calritraia, a gay, handsome, young Spaniard ; and the mystely in which the name and identity of the fair unknown are shrouded, tantalizes and per- plexes the gallant cavalier almost to desperation. The lady proves to be the daughter t f a grandee, and the inmate of a convent : she is on the point of taking the veil, when Julio enters, and the novice re. notinces the cloister, declares her real name, and throws herself mud her fortune into the omits of her lover.
It would be unfair to form an opinion of AUBEICS music from the limited selection Klein at this theatre; VsSTais is the Black Do- mini). living the only solo-singer ; and she evidently Laboured under the t fleets of cold. The piece is splendidly got up ; and, when the perfOrMallee goes smoothly, it still be attractive. Citant.F.s MATHEWS, as .Tulin, is butt tin insipid lover. SELBY took the place of James VININC: in the character of a diplomatist and a man of pleasure: and Siit.av's manner was so very pleasant and easy, that he should keep possession of the part. A bolero in the first scene, though the dancers lack the lire mad elegance of the Spanish artists, smacks of the sunny :South.
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