The lessee of Her Majesty's Theatre has now put forth
the prospectus of his season, which is to commence on Tuesday next. The arrange- ments are satisfactory, but simple, and may be comprised in a very few words. The company is to include every performer of note that the company of last season possessed, with the exception of Coletti—Thomas Carlyle's beau ideal of operatic grandeur. We regret Coletti's absence; but receive consolation in the return of Belletti from America, rich in as. sociations of the Lindian tern. Of new recruits, we observe the names of Signor Basini, a baritone of Continental reputation, Signor Negrini, a tenor from La Scala—expected; and the prima donna Mademoiselle Joanna Wagner, a lady with whose name all Germany is ringing at present. Of now pieces, only two are mentioned positively ; a grand opera called Casilda, composed by the Duke of Saxe Coburg and Gotha, which has re- cently been performed with success at Vienna and Berlin ; and Flotow'e Martha, an opera well known for several years in Germany, but which owes a new celebrity to Sontag. It is added, that an opera by Meyerbeer, written expressly for Sontag, " will probably " be produced in the course of the season. This, knowing Meyerbeer's extreme slowness of gestation, we think anything but likely.
For the ballet we are to have Cerito, Rosati, and probably Carlotta Grisi, now at St. Petersburg, to whom an offer of engagement has been sent.
The opening of the Covent Garden Opera, which was to have taken place on Tuesday, has been postponed till this evening ; owing, we believe, to the non-arrival of Formes, who was to have played in Guillautne Tell. The opera announced for tonight is Maria di Bohan; the same piece fixed upon for the opening of Her Majesty's Theatre.
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