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THE musical season is nearly over, and, when the Royal Italian Opera closes this day fortnight, will be entirely at an end. Our fashionable people are fast disappearing from town, and turning up at Paris, or Vienna, or Baden-Baden, or Spa, wherever they are driven by the resistless craving for pleasure and amusement which seizes all the world at this time of the year.
The favourite little prima donna, Addina Patti, has had another triumph in Flotow's Martha. She appeared last Saturday in the part of Lady Enrichetta ; acting with so mach grace, vivacity, and feeling, and singing with such sweetness and expression, that she fairly turned the heads of the audience, if we may judge from the vehemence with which they applauded her. The opera is well known to the public, having been brought into great favour by the charm- ing performance of poor Bosio. It certainly cannot be estimated highly as a work of nit; though the subject is both gay and interest- ing, and the music contains some pretty melodies, the prettiest of all being the Irish ballad-air, "The last rose of summer," which, is introduced, in several scenes, with the happiest effect. Patti,it is said, is yet to appear in another part, Bosina, in the Barbiere de Siviglia.
Wednesday- next is to be Grid's- "farewell night." "On this occasion," says the announcement, "Madame Grisi will appear for the last time in those operas with which her name has been so long associated, and will sing for the last time on the stage in England.." The operas, of which fragments will be performed, are La Favorita, Norma, and the Huguenots. Some six or seven years ago Grisi took a formal farewell of the English public on the. same boards; but this time her farewelL will be tout de bon.
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