24 MARCH 1894, Page 15

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."]

rn,—Is not your correspondent of Toronto, in the Spectator of March 17th, wrong in saying that Miss Helen Faucit acted the part of Antigone in the first reproduction of the tragedy in England P I think the first reproduction was at Covent .Garden Theatre, on January 2nd, 1845, and then certainly Miss Vandenhoff represented Antigone, her father playing Creon. The music was Mendelssohn's, and the conductor was Mr. Macfarren, afterwards Sir George Macfarren. A full account of the performance will be found in the Times of January 3rd,