We have now got a third Italian Opera, located at
the Surrey. It is an enterprise of Messrs. Cramer and Beale the music-publishers, and has certainly begun with spirit. The theatre opened on Monday, with Norma, exceedingly well performed. The Norma was Madame Lorini, an American lady of Transatlantic reputation, which she deserves, being a powerful actress and a really excellent singer. Her husband was the Pollio—a tenore robust°, with a voice too strong for the theatre, which he will do well to subdue—and an actor of considerable energy. Made- moiselle Sedlatzek makes an interesting Adalgisa ; and Fortini, lately at Drury Lane, is a respectable Oroveso. The musical director is Mr. Alfred Mellon ; the band and chorus are good; the whole establishment appears to be on a liberal and satisfactory scale ; and this theatre will now afford the transpontine public, on very moderate terms, a musical entertainment much superior to anything they have hitherto possessed.
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