THE THEATRES.
AN attempted adaptation of La Donna del Lago has been produced at Covent Garden this week : but the opera is so disguised in performance that the original work of ROSSINI is only discernible by means of the orchestra. Though not one of his best operas, and filled with passages taken from his former ones, La Donna del Lago is yet not unworthy of its author's fame, and when performed by competent singers will always be heard with pleasure. As in all similar attempts, the t_ovent Garden company must encounter a comparison with our reminiscences of the real opera as performed at its proper theatre : the ladies, with Rowzr, PISARONI, BRAMBILLA, and GRISI ; and MESSIS. HARRISON, MAN VEER, BINGE, and Co., with DONZELLI, ROBIN!, and TAMBURINL The result we have stated. It is La Donna del Lago burlesqued. Of the singers en- gaged in it, Mrs. SHAW alone understands how to deal with Rossna ; the rest are floundering about in helpless imbecility or happy ignorance. Of the translation we can say nothing, as no authorized version of the words is allowed to appear : a very prudent step on the part of the manager, in all probability.
The scenery and costumes are admirable ; as much superior to those of her Majesty's Theatre as the singing is below it.
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