11 MAY 1861, page 17

Fine Arts.

ROYAL ACADEMY. FIRST NOTICE. Tex great Art festival of the year—the opening of the Royal Academy —an event for which painters, who boast not the addition of the magical R.A. to......

Tin Musical Intelligence Of This Week Is Scanty And Not

very interest- ing. At the Royal Italian Opera, the Trovatore has been perfomed for the first time this season, but precisely in the same manner as last year ;—Penco being......

On Sunday Week A Festival Was Given At Paris By

the choral societies of the Seine, a branch of the great Orpheon association, which extends all over France. Our readers will remember the sensa- tion created in London by the......

Gounod's New Opera, Faust, Has Achieved Great Success At...

stadt. At the second performance the Grand Duke decorated the composer, and appointed the prima donna, Mdlle. Emilie Schmidt, Court chamber-singer. There is to be a great......