THE THEATRES.
THE Italian Opera company is now in full force, running the usual routine of the season, with undiminished eclat; and the arrival of Carlotta Grisi has given a crowning grace to the ballet. She appeared last week in Esmeralda, the character in which she has made the strongest impression as a pantomimist; but we shall hope to see her in a new ballet, with Perrot.
The new ballet for Cerito, produced on Thursday, and named Roshia, is not a happy effort on the part of her husband, St. Leon. The story is un- intelligible as told in the pantomimic action; and the spectacle, though it displays some gay and stirring scenes, is not very remarkable. The novel feature is laying the scene in a mine, and making the hero and heroine miners. The mine reveals its treasures in a magical manner, and the world of Gnomes tenanting its caves: the sight whereof blinds Rosida; but she recovers her sight at last. The pantomime by which Cork° intended to express her blindness was not so significant on the first night but that some thought she had lost other senses than that of sight. Nor are the dances very characteristic; there was no pea de Pick-axe or pas des Davy- lamps; and the opportunity for a new effect by the explosion of fire-damp is let slip. In short, the mine is not a "mine of invention," or likely to be a mine of wealth to the manager. But there is some very beautiful dancing, nevertheless.
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