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Signor Graziani, one of the new comers promised in the Royal Italian Opera programme of the season, made his debt on Thursday, in Verdi's Dwane. He appeared in the character of Don Carlos and made so strong an impression that he promises to be a favourite of the public. His voice is in register a baritone, but in quality a tenor, combining power and sweetness in a singular degree—he can warble with all the softness and tenderness of Mario. He is, moreover, a personable man, and not only sings well but looks well. His merits as an actor must be tried in some better pare
Cerito is dancing nightly in a divertissement called _Eva, which was done entire for the first time on Thursday ; but she had fore- stalled it by giving its prettiest scene several previous evenings, in. eluding that of the Royal and Imperial visit. Cerito looks almost as well and dances quite as well as she did in the palmy days of the ballet IR the Haymarket But those days are gone by; the public do not care about ballet as they once did. Besides, one dancer can no more make a ballet than one swallow can make a summer. Cerito is alone : the peo. pie who accompany her would hardly have been worthy to be coryphees in the old Lumley days. The Covent Garden public, accordingly, pay no great attention even to Centro; the house was half empty on Thurs- day before the ballet was over.
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