EDINBURGH MUSICAL INTELLIGENCE.
IT has long been remarked that our friends in the Northern capital do not shine in musical intelligence. The Edinburgh Evening Post, after uttering a heap of nonsense on CARADORI's singing, gives this curious information :- " Madame Caradori is the daughter of a German Baron ; and though it has been asserted that she is a German by birth, she was born in Milan, and is therefore an Italian. From her very fair complexion, blue eyes, and light hair, we would take her for a native of England."
If they would take her for a native of England, we suppose, as wilful people, they must have their way ; but a more decided German face than Cananoai's was never produced by nature. A critic who will ac- count that square jaw, the complexion, and the setting of the eyes, other than German, must be far gone in admiration indeed.
Further, he instructs his countrymen, that
" She made her first appearance in London as Zerlina in Don Giovanni ; and along with Camporese, A mbrogetti, and others of minor note" [Fodor in- cluded !] " she contributed to establish that taste for Mozart's magnificent music which has rendered his name and compositions as popular in this country"— as what 9—we faint as we copy the astounding heresy—" as Bishop's or Rossini 's"—actually writes the Midas.
But for the fact : Madame CARADORI did not make her first appear- ance as Zerlina in Don Giovanni, or in any part of such a rank. She made her first appearance as Cherubino in Figaro, and after the taste for MOZART'S music had been completely established. She subse- quently played Zerlina, when the opera had begun to pall on the public ; and acquitted herself in the part with but indifferent success.
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