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Drury Lane Theatre has been opened for twelve nights, for the per- formance of opera. The company are Germans, but their scheme ex- tends to Italian and English as well as German pieces, in the original languages. They began last Monday, with the .Freiccliiitz, which they repeated on the following night. On Thursday they performed Luerezia Borgia in Italian ; and Ads and Galatea in English is announced for next week. The principal performers are Madame Caradori, a prima donna from Vienna,—a lady with a powerful soprano voice and considerable ability as an actress ; Herr Reichardt, well known for several seasons as a good tenor-singer at our concerts ; Madame Zimmerman, and Made- moiselle Weinthal, as second soprano and contralto,—both respectable ; and our old acquaintance Formes. They have a good orchestra, about forty strong, well conducted by Herr Anschuez ; and their chorus is by no means amiss. Their Freisehiitz was really an excellent performance; their Luerezia Borgia, as might be expected, not so good, as their style of singing is decidedly German, not only in vocalization but in pronuncia- tion ; the euphony of the Italian tongue being injured by their German gutturals. Both operas, however, have been received with equal ap- plause by audiences as crowded as we have ever seen at Old Drury.
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