At the Italian Opera, music goes on with the unvarying
DIODOICony of pieces and performers that has characterized the management for several years. The ballet department has fallen below the average. La Fille de r Exit, founded on Madame Corertes story of "Elizabeth, or the Exiles of Siberia" is a showy piece of dulness ; and but that its first representation was enlivened by an accident that occurred to Mademoiselle Guy STEPHAN, who was thrown down by the falling of the cross she clung to, it would probably have been hissed off: but the plaudits at the reappearance of the danseuse, who was fortunately not hurt, turned to the account of the performance. Bad the lady been lamed, the ballet would have been left without a leg to pirouette on. So much for LAPORTE'S promise of Ei r 4LER, TAGLIONI, and CERITO
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