27 APRIL 1861, Page 16

Meyerbeer's long-expected opera, L'Africaine, is positively to be brought out

at the Grand Opera this year ; and, in anticipation of the event, M. Faure, now at Covent Garden, has been engaged for three years. M. Castil-Blaze's play, arthe, for which Meyerbeer is composing choruses, is about to be produced, it is said, at the Porte St. Martin, instead of the Odeon.

iialevy's opera, Charles VI., has been produced at Bordeaux, but the words of the well-known air " Jamais en France l'Anglais ne re- gnera," created such a violent anti-English excitement, that the further performance of the piece was interdicted by authority.