THE opera whose forthcoming at Drury Lane we noticed some
THE opera whose forthcoming at Drury Lane we noticed some weeks since, made its appearance on Monday night ; and will very , :speedily- make its disappearance. We predicted the fate of this BIIMpI. PHILLIPS has tried several times to sustain the prin-. • eipal part of an opera, but has uniformly failed : the sufficient evi- dence of which is, the fact that not one of them is ever heard, or . beard of. And yet managers are such fools as to go on repeating the same blunder. At this house, on the same night, we had two operas by two different companies—both starved, of course. And then we have lamentations that the public won't patronize an English operal. Who would ? Who would go, unless on corn- pulsion, to hear. such an exhibition as that of Monday night ? A plot raked out of the very leavings of the Coburg is delivered into BISHOP'S hands, out of which he is to make an opera for one singer. Presently another, we suppose, will be written for Mrs. WOOD—a third for .Mr. 11VOOD-a fourth for Maiiintass—and why not one for Mr. BEDFORD, or Miss CawsE ? We shall not attempt to notice, in detail, a piece which will probably he defunct before our paper goes to press : but Captain Possum. may rest assured, that every attempt to roll this stone up-hill will end in its recoiling on his own head.
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