There has also been an operatic novelty at Drury Lane.
An Italian version of Verdi's Vipres Sielliennes, under the title of I Vespri Siciliaei was performed on Wednesday. The opera was got up with a care and completeness which did credit to the management; and the two prin- cipal parts were powerfully acted and sung by Titiens and Mongini. But it is a ponderous work, in which the composer's own platitudes and commonplaces are blended with laborious endeavours to imitate the depth and solidity of the German school. It has had some Burner's at the Grand Opera of Paris, for which theatre it was composed ; hence, we presume, the Drury Lane Lessee was induced to announce it at the beginning of the season, and he has done well to keep faith with the public, even when he could profit little by doing so, seeing that his theatre closes this evening.
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