The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1826-03-20 00:00:00

KINGS THEATRE.

On Saturday evening 11 Barbiese di Siviglirt. was 'gala
performed, and with increased effect. Curioni in the Coast
was more at home than on the formet representation'', and
his opening serenata " Ecco ridente Cielo," was very tam_
fully executed. Pellegrini's vivacity never flagged during
the piece: his opening bollero, " Laren," was very hoppi
and the whole of the scene with the Count; in which tie
military disguise is projected, was well done ; the duet
"Ah the d'amore Ala fiansina iosento" was encored• in
the scene with Rosina also, where she sends the note, he
was very successful, and in " Zitti Zitti," indeed, co»sider-
ing the very limited powers of his voice, he threw more e 4
feet into the harmonise,: parts than we imagined him to he,
capable of from his former efforts. Of Mail iine CiNdori
we have already given our unqualified aoin,i;a:;,„
and in the character of hosing shit leaves U 3 ill tile full pta.,
session of our first opinion, that it is imnossii,le that tl.e
character could be more ably sustained. De Begnis
,
very droll in Dr. Rartolo, particularly in the Scene with
Rosina, where he discovers that she has bcen writing the
billet to her lover, by counting the ahem of paper, and
serving- the pen to have been used,—as also where lie arms
himself with the ;tambour frame to resist the pretended
attacks of the Count. On his throwing it from him
" shewed fight" d la:Cribb, though we doubt If the doable.
X champion would feel much honoured by our sayie.g
so, had hie witnessed the attitude of the But the
extraordinary grimacier of the piece is Porto; be is cer.
tainly original, and we trust will remain so, for we tee
nothing worthy of imitation in such extraordinary distor-
tions. The choruses were ably exeeuteil, particularly the
finale to the first act. We should like to have the music
lesson as a duet; at present it has given lilac.: to a simple
sir by Rorke, which, though beautiful of its kind, dim
not add to the comic effect of the scene, which is so dent.
able. Upon the whole, however, the (Teta was ably per.
formed, and has come in as a very pleasant relief to the
"I dead weight" of serious opera.
By the way, a negotiation has been seine time on
the tapir between Mr. Ebers and Madame Pasta;
her stipulations, however, are such, as to stagger that n.
demon s Chancellor of the Exchequer, for she requires
MO/. down, another 10901. at the conclusion of the sea.
son, a free benefit, and the selection of six operas to be
performed during her engagement. We fear rheas de-
mands do not very well agree with the Opera revenue;
but we shall be happy to learn that Mr. Ebers liss bten
able to effect the arrangement, from the variety it is
likely to produce in the piece's reprcistitfilak the villa cf
which is one of the sulking defects of esent
state of the engagements of the Italians opera.
wants also to produce mother serious opera, clout
which Mr. Ebers has some qualms; the pablte, bowers',
will not object, we apprehend, so long as they hwe a
sprinkling of the opera Buffs, to any novelty, come (rem
whom it may, particularly as Tebaldo e maintains
its ground only from the effect of two seems, the Our
parts being very nsedicore. We do hope that. Mozart is
not banished from those boards, where we have listened to
his magic powers with so much delight. In the absence
of novelty among modern composers, let the public lists
an occasional hearing of Motart„, to compensate them Ter
the endurance with which they, receive the feeble efLris
of leas exalted genius. By the French Papers we perceive
that Ambrogetti, the very finest actor that ever adorned
this theatre—for who can forget his performances i
Don Giovanni, and Agneae,—has become a monk cf the
order of La Trappe, certainly the most proper of the
religious orders for the retirement of one who has spent
so much of his life upon the stage.
The house was crowded in every part.