Another Norma has appeared; Mademoiselle Nissen, who performed the part
at Covent Garden on Tuesday. This lady is much superior to Made- moiselle de Roissi, the Norma of the Princess's, whose debut we noticed last week; but she is a very inadequate representative of the moat arduous part, probably, on the musical stage. In person she is well formed and not ungraceful, but her features are far from handsome; and her action, though at times sufficiently violent, is made up of ordinary stage conventionalities. She is a good but by no means a great singer. She has some fine high notes, and she executes florid passages very neatly; but her voice, through- out the principal part of its compass, has a hardness which art has been un- able to remove. She had what the bills called a " triumphant success"; but the first night of every debutant is a triumph now-a- days—the reality of the success is tested afterwards.
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