Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-06-08 00:00:00

MUSIC, DRAMA, &e.

THE AMPITHEATRE.—We are glad to be able to state
that tho engagement of Mr. T. C. King and Miss Marriott
has been renewed for the present week. Among other
parts Mr. King will appear as Macbeth, Miss Marriott as
Lady Macbeth, and the tragedy being surrounded by all the
gorgeous setting off of the spectacle effects which were
made on former occasions to lend it their much-admired,
but, we cannot help thinking, very questionable aid. Mr.
King will appear during the week as Jacques, in " As You
Like It," a part in which we are able to say he displays
his cultivated and remarkable powers with the happiest
effect. Miss Marriott will appear as Rosalind. Several
other favourite plays are announced, and the additional
attraction of Spanish minstrels and German dancers is
secured.

THE DIORAMA OF THE GANGES.—This remarkable work
of art is still on exhibition► at the Upper Teutonic Hall,
Lime Street, and we recommend every one having an
interest in the scenery and customs prevalent in our Indian
possessions to pay it a visit. Nothing can depict more
powerfully, or delineate more deeply in the memory, the
condition of India, physically and morally, than this beau-
tiful Diorama, which we look upon more as a means of
giving instruction than an exhibition. We are glad to
perceive that the proprietor of this work of art is acting
with much liberality towards the various charities of
Liverpool. On Friday the Deaf and Dumb Schools were
admitted free to view the exhibition, and the Blue Coat
School will have the same privilege this day (Monday).
We believe that it is the intention of Mr. Sheffield, the pro-
prietor, to admit all the charities, in like manner, before
closing. ,

Don Giovanni is to be produced at both opera houses.
The cast at her Majesty's Theatre (where it will be pro-
duced on Thursday night), includes the names of Piccolo-
mini, Spezia, Ortolani, Giuglini, Beneventano, Belletti,
Corsi, Vialetti. At the Royal Italian Opera the cast• is
most " powerful." including Grist, Bosio, Marai, Ronconi,
Formes, Polonini, Tagliafico, and Mario.
On Saturday next Mdlle. Balfe will make her third
appearance at the Royal Italian Opera, in La Somnambula.
With a contemporary, we trust that Mr. Balfe's good
sense will save her from the dangers of over-exertion. She
is:evidently a delicate girl, and unable yet to undergo all
the wear and tear of theatrical life.
Mdlle. Spezia is advertised to act, as well as to sing, the
Lorely finale, by Mendelssohn, on Wednesday next.
Madame Ristori commences her representations at the
Lyceum this evening with Medea. Besides the chief cha-
racters in which she appeared last season, four new pieces
are to be produced, including an Italian adaptation of Lady
Macbeth. The other tragedies are Gamma, a new work by
Montanelli, lately produced in Paris by Madame Ristori,
Ottavia, by Alfieri, aid Fazio.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Rean's annual benefit takes place
at the Princess's on the 22nd. Richard the Second is
shortly to be withdrawn "to make room for another
Shakesperian drama now in immediate preparation."
Murphy's comedy All in the Wrong will be revived at the
Olympic this evening.
Mr. and Mrs. Barney Williams will re-appear at the
Adelphi on the 22nd, in a new farce by Sterling Coyne.
M. Roger, the French tenor, is now in London, intend-
ing to take an early opportunity of making his appearance
before the public.
M. Jullien is announcing a ten days' festival at the
Surrey Gardens, beginning on Friday next, to amuse such
of the public as hive not had sound enough at Sydenham.
He undertakes to give the Creation and the Seasons and
Signor Rossani's Stabat Mater and the Messiah—and a
Rossini Festival, and a Verdi Festival, and a Beethoven
Festival, and a Mozart Festival—and for these he has
engaged (to quote his programme), a " great " soprano,
"an accomplished ditto," a popular English " ditto,"
" a new celebrated ditto, &c., &c. &c. &c., with all
manner of solo players and other delightful and attractive
personages.
" Dress is the privileged topic of a gossip—and I thus,"
writes a correspondent of the Athenceum„ " take leave to
submit a line on the subject, which is also a matter of
history; to the managers of the Crystal Palace, the com-
mittee of the Sacred Harmonic Society, and the courtesy
of English gentlewomen, who, ought to be one hundred
years better bred than their great-grandmothers were.
When Handers Messiah was produced at Dublin in the
year 1741, the ladies were respectfully requested to attend
the performance without their hoops. Would not au act
of self denial in some degree corresponding to this greatly
add to the comfort of the vast audiences that will
assemble at Sydenham on the 15th and tollowing days ? "
The sixth of the F'riday concerts and the fineness of the
weather drew a numerous audience to the Crystal Palace
on Friday last, and certainly it would have been almost
impossible to select a better day for seeing the palace to
advantage. The gardens are now in all the fresh loveli-
ness of early summer, and the bright green turf, and the
placid waters resting in the basis of the fountains, are a
pleasant relief to the hot glaring sun, which seems to
threaten us with a long visit. The attractions of the day,
at the Crystal Palace were, however, neither flowers nor
fountains, but the artistes of the Royal Italian Opera.
Madame Grisi sang " Al dote guidaini,".from Anna Bolena,
in which she was encored, and the charming duet from
Don Pasquale, " Tornang a dir," with Mario. Madame
Bosio was warmly applauded in the "Caro mane," from
Rigoletto, which she delivered with her accustomed brit.
liancy of execution. Madame D.diee gave a careful ren-
dering of " Voi the sapete," from the Nous di Figaro.
LES BOUFFES PARISIENS, under the enterprising _
management of Mr. Mitchell daily present new attrac-
tions. On Friday night two pieces were produced for the
first time In a London audience. An opera comique,
entitled L' Opera aux. Fenetres, the words by Halevy,
charmingly set to music by Gastinel ; and an operetta-
bouffe, under the title of Six Demoiselles a. likeritr.
A ?aris correspondent writes :—" The first fete de nuit
of the season was given last night (Thursday) at
the Pre Catalan, which has now eclipsed Ranelagh,
Mobille Chateau des Fleurs, and all the out-door places
of amusesnent in Paris and the environs. The principal
entertainment consisted of a ballet by a numerous and
excellent company of Spanish dancers in the Theatre des
Pleura in the open air. When the weather is fine and
warm, as it was last night, the theatre is really charming.
You sit in boxes with azaleas and geraniums haore you,
instead of velvet cushions, the curtain is of laurels inter-
spersed with flowers, the sylvan scenery. oa, the stage is
M. Brifaut, a member of the French Acaci:-,my,
real, and the prosceniumis the moon and stars,
Paris on Thursday. morning.- He was the, author of Lady
Jane grey, Charles of- Navarre, and
.Salne other not very
successful plays, and was flraraatiacensor • the time of
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