5 APRIL 1851, page 13

The Royal Italian Opera Commenced Its Fifth Season On...

; but the event was not attended with any very remarkable circumstances. The opera was the well-known Semiramide ; performed with the completeness and splendour for which this......

There Is One Truth That, It Seems, Will Never Force

itself upon the ma- nagerial mind,—we mean, the truth that a comic opera, deprived of its music can rarely or never make an effective drama. La Dame de Pique, written by M.......

Tbutrto Ault 311.ttoir.

Paris is now the only place where original operas of any magnitude and importance are produced. Verdi, the single noted Italian composer, is not tolerated out of Italy ; and......

Re'i'ractlig Division On The County Franchise Bill—

APRIL 2. REFORMING M/NORITT FOR THE SECOND READING OF MIL LOCKE KING'S Aglionby, Henry A. Fox, W. Johnson M'Cullagh, W. T. Salwey, Col. Henry Alcock, Thomas Gibson, Rt. Hon. 'T.......