PARISIAN THEATRICALS.
Mereadante's opera of It Bravo has been revived at the Italian Theatre, with a cast composed of Mesdames Lagrange and Beltramelli and MM. Bettini and Belletti.
At the Vaudeville there is a new piece of a most singular kind. In the prologue or introductory act, Phidias the Greek sculptor appears, mad with a Pygmalion passion for three of his own statues. The piece itself is laid in a modern period ; but M. Fechter, who has played Phidias in love with forms of marble, pursues a sort of identity with his first character, by representing a young artist enamoured of a courtesan with a heart of stone. In the same manner, all the antique personages who have figured in the prologue are reproduced under modern circumstances, so that the parallel is completely preserved throughout. The authors of this piece, which is entitled Les Fines de ifarbre, are MM. Theodore Barriere and Lambert Thiboust. •
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