THE GERMAN OPERA.
WiNTER's IAis Unterbrochene 01:livfi'st was performed on Wed- nesday. A few years since, it was produced at the English Opera- house, under the title of " The Interrupted Sacrifice," with fewer mutilations and additions than are commonly inflicted on a London version of a German opera. It is written in W INTER'S usual me- lodious style ; and we listened to the performance with considerable pleasure, although the mps ((opera has lost one of its principal singers: for Madame WALKER, it seems, has returned to Germany, and the company is almost without a prima donna. The Italian and German companies stood, on Tuesday and Wednesday night, ill strong contrast to each other. In the former, the music was feeble and frivolous, the chorus weak and imperfect, and the singers won all the laurels: in the latter, the music was full of pleasing though not powerful interest, the chorus strong and sure, but the singers (Sen MEZER excepted) were rough or feeble. Never- theless, the sum of musical enjoyment was greater at the German than the Italian opera. Not even the skill of a GR1SI can make something out of' nothing; but the Germans in some degree atone for the absence of first-rate vocal talent, by the selection of music intrinsically good, and by the patient and persevering attention they bestow upon its performance. SCHMEZER'S appearance as /Varney was excellent.
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