5 FEBRUARY 1859, Page 13

The indefatigable Verdi is on the point of producing a

new opera. It is called Ca Ballo di Maschera (a masked Ball), and the subject is the assas- sination of Gustavus the Third of Sweden. It will be produced at Rome, at the Theatre Apollo, in the course (it is said) of this month.

Don Giovanni is about to be performed at Paris; Mario having wisely abandoned the attempt, which he made at our Royal Italian Opera last sea- son, to assume the part of the libertine hero, singing the baritone music with his tenor voice. Badiali, (whom we may expect, we believe, this sea- son) will sustain the character ; and the other principal parts are assigned to Madame Frezzolini, Mademoiselle Guerrabella, Madame Pence, and Sig- nor Zucchini.