The expected production of Meyerbeer's new opera, Dinorah, at the
Opera Comique, is exciting great interest in the Parisian musical circles. This opera, we learn, is also to be produced, in an Italian dress, at Covent Garden, in the course of the approaching season ; the composer having made an arrangement with Mr. Gye to that effect. It is said that this opera is quite unlike any of Meyerbeer's former works. Having been taunted by critics, who maintain that he depends for his success on great choral and orchestral effects, aided by the attraction of splendid spectacle, he has now dispensed with these accessories ; his new opera being of the simplest construction, and containing only three principal characters. It will be brought out at Covent Garden under his personal superintendence. This will be his third visit to England ; the first was in 1832, on the occa- sion of the production of Robert k Dtable at Her Majesty's Theatre ; and the second was in 1855, when L'Etoik du Nord was performed at Covent Garden.
The monster concert in the Palace of Industry at Paris, which we an- nounced some time ago, is now definitely arranged to take place on the 11th, 12th, and 13th of March next. Seven thousand singers and musicians are already engaged.
At the second "dress concert" of the Vocal Association on Wednesday next, under the direction of Mr. Benedict, Bennett's May Queen is to be repeated. A remarkable feature of this concert will be the "Ave Maria" composed by Mendelssohn for his unfinished opera of Loreky, and now to be heard in public for the first time, the exclusive right to perform it having been conceded to the Vocal Association by Mr. Buxton the proprietor of the copyright.
Miss Victoire Balfe has made a brilliant &bat at Turin. She appeared at the Teatro Rerde on Thursday week in the Sonnambula, and was received with acclamations by a crowded audience, including all the rank and fashion of the capital of Piedmont. This young lady, it will be remembered, ap- peared with very great success at our Royal Italian Opera, the season before last. It was understood that she was engaged there last season, and some surprise was caused by her non-appearance.
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