Sterndale Bennett's May Queen has just been produced with great
success at Liverpool. The characters were sustained by Miss Stabbach, Miss Las- cellest Mr. Willye Cooper, and Mr. Santley. The performance was con- ducted by the composer. This beautiful work is becoming more and more popular. It is to be performed again in London, at the Philharmonic So- ciety's Concert on the 30th of this month.
Rossini, who, since his return to Paris, has resisted every inducement to visit public entertainments, has at length yielded to the nareaties of his friends. A couple of Sundays ago be was prevailed on to go to the perform- ance of the Societe des Concerts, (the Parisian Philharmonic Society,) of which the programme contained selections from his &abet Mater, and opera of Mome. On his entrance the audience rose en masse, and received him with thunders of applause which lasted for several minutes, and in which the Empress joined.
A new singer, Madame Hermann Esillag, has made a great sensatioreat. the Grand Opera by her performanae of Fides, in the Prophite. She comes from Vienna, where she has been prima donna of the German Opera.
The Festival in commemoration of Schiller, which was to have been held at Weimar in the course of next month, is prohibited by authority !
Madame Bosio's funeral at St. Petersburg was public, and of the most magnificent description. Mozart's Requiem was performed in the Cathedral by an immense orchestra, including every vocal and instrumental performer
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of eminence who resided in the city. The highest personages of the empire, all the members of the diplomatic body, and a host of noble and distinguished persons, swelled the funeral procession, which was escorted by detachments of cavalry and infantry. Madame Bodo made her debut at Milan when only sixteen; from thence she went to Verona, and afterwards to Madrid, where she married a Spanish gentlemen, M. Xindavelouis, who surviverther death. She had not reached her thirtieth year.
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