22 MAY 1847, page 11

Two Pieces Entirely New To The English Public Have Been

produced at the St. James's. One is Un Coup de Lansquenet, brought out at Paris within the last few months; the other, Oscar, ou is Mari qui trompe sa Femme, is about five years......

Opera Management. •

The general course of management pursued at the " Royal Italian Opera" is evidently creating disappointment. When the project of a new ' Operahouse at Covent Garden transpired......

Though The All-sufficing Success Of Jenny Lind In Her First

two oha- meters is a capital thing for the manager, the performers, and those of the struggling thousands who succeed in obtaining seats or standing room within the walls of Her......

What Is The Matter With The Ballet Department At Covent

Garden? Do what they will they cannot emerge from dulness. They have brought out novelties fast enough, but ill-luck seems to pursue them , and they cannot make an impression.......

The Notion Of Founding A Drama Upon One Of Those

made-up hermits who serve to decorate pleasure-grounds, is not altogether new to the English stage; O'Keefe having written a piece of the kind, called The London Her , mit,......

A Joke Is Told Of A Writer Of Coburg Pieces,

that when he had sat out a modern comedy, he said, " This is all very well, but it requires imagination to make a melodrame." This preference for the broad-sword combat and the......