Rossini's comic opera, L'Italiana in A,eri, has been revived at
the Theatre Italien for the d4but of Signor Montanan, a young tenor of whom the Parisian critics speak very highly. This delightful opera buffa, with his performance and that of Alboni, has made a great sensation in Pans. Our readers may remember that it was produced at Covent Garden when Alboni first appeared in England. Why has it been so long neglected since?
Auber is at present engaged in composing the music for La Fiancée du Boi de Garde:, a posthumous opera of Scribe.
The Children of the Landes, an opera by Rubinstein, the famous pianist who lately made so great a sensation in London, has been produced at Vienna with success.—It is announced that a posthu- mous opera by Franz Schubert is about to appear at the same place ; an event anticipated with great interest, for Schubert's reputation, hitherto founded only on his beautiful songs, is rising as the extent of his rowers is becoming better known to the world.
The Parisians are coming to the knowledge of Mendelssohn as slowly as they formerly came to the knowledge of Beethoven. A few days ago, at a concert of the "locietS des Jeunes Artistes," the overture to the Midsummer Nignrs Dream, which has been familiar in our concert-rooms these thirty years, was produced as a remark- able novelty, and received (to-do. the audience justice) with due en, thusiasm.
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