The Express.
London, England, 1863-03-23 00:00:00

MUSIC.

ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA.

The season waft brought to a termination on
Saturday night, with the performpoce of the Domino Noir
and other entertainments, beiw; for the benefit of Was
Louisa Fyne. in the course of tho evening the following
&Mines was circulated in the theatre :
. . .

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" Ladies did Gentlemen,—Thu being the last night of
our present season (the longest that has been given for
several years) we beg to return our sincere thanks foe the
support SOU have bedewed, aed to take this opportu-
nity of expressing our loyal gratitude to our most gra-
cious sovereign, who, notwithstanding her own retirement,
has been pleased to continue her valuable patronage to us
throughout the entire season. We venture to add a
hope that the ensuing one may be honoured with
the patronage of their Royal kfighnesees the Prince
and Princess of Wales also. Next year terminating our
lease io this establishment, our operatic management here
will, in Al probability, terminate also. We shall, there-
fore, renew our efforts to pleds you, that our last Covent-
garden season may live freshly in your memories. The
difficulty, as well as the expense, of operatic management
can sever be estimated_ by those who balm not undertaken
it; but we have struggled with these formidable difficulties
so far, and will endeavour still to combat them, incited by
the knowledge that we have with truthfulness thrown all
our energies into the attempt of realising a good work—
namely, the establishing a home in English opera for our
brother and sister artistes; end we will carry this attempt
through (so far as our health permits) bravely until the
end. Trusting that you will kindly co-operate with no in
this arduous endeavour by your liberal support and cheer-
ing patronage next season, we bid you till then most re-
apeJtfully and gratefully adieu.
" LOOM Prirs,
•`Wn.usta HARRISON, Managem"

A small number of the admirers of Miss Louisa Yrs*
took this opportunity of presenting her, u a mark of their
O&M with a beautiful necklace and earrings of carbuncles
and diamonds.

DRAMA.

Easter is not so important a dramatic season for
new holiday entertainments as Christmas, but still it always
has its fair share of novelties. This year the feast of
burlesque will be as full as usual, and Mr. Byron has been
the author most called upon to provide it. The Adelphi
will have one extravaganza from hie pen; the Prisons's
another, founded largely upon "Don Juan;" and the
Strand another, based upon the good old eastern romance of
the Forty Thieves." The St. James's will be enlivened
with a burlesque upon The Heart of Mid-Lothian, for
which Miss Marie Wilton and Mr. James Rogers have been
engaged. We trust that Mr. Rogers, who is in very bad
health, will have gained strength during his temporary
retirement in the Isle of Wight for these very trying
burlesque parts. The Haymarket will introduce Mr.
Telbin's loog.promised panorama illustrating the Prince of
Wales's tour in the Fast, and the picture will be sitcom-
pealed by a dramatic sketch from the pen of Mr. Stirling
Coyne. At Drury-Lane the popular drama of Peep-of-Day
will be revived; and at the Olympic we shall have a
classical extravaganza called /cis and Galatea, by Mr. J. C.
Burnand. This gentleman is the author of that very clever
and elaborate parody of all the sensation romances which
has lately appeared in the pages of Punch, under the title
of Mokeansa. The literary merits of this production have
been admirably worked up to by artists like Millais, Keene,
Browne. and others, who have happily travestied their own
sentimental pictorial efforts.