The National Register.
London, England, 1815-01-15 00:00:00

7WE OPERA.

This establishment, so long a prey
(ions, seems at last to have emerged from
It opened on Tue.-day last with renovated splendour.
Thoroughly cleaned and carefully touched, the paintings
which adorn the various tiers of boxes have recovered all
the gloss of novelty. New chandeliers, surmounted with
the Imperial Cruwn, formed of gilt brass on a bottom of
red glass, dispense iight and brilliancy, and a drop scene
representing a magnificent crimson velvet curtain worked
with gold, and partly raised 014 one side by a golden cord,
so as to reveal a long perspective of elegant pillars, whilst
on the other, the smoke of perfumes burning in a vase,
placed on a tripod, ascends in curling clouds, that lightly
Aim the splendour of the drapery, completes the ernbel-
lishinents of the House, and completely deceives the eye
of the spectator. If this drop has really been finished
in a fortnight, as it is reported, it displays, besides
uncommon taste and skill, astonishing activity in the
painter.
The company is this year mostly new, and tried its
strength on Tuesday in a serious Opera, also new to this
country, called Adclasla c Aleranno, the music of which
is b 3, • G. S. Mayer, a composer hitherto little known
arf.ong,t us. The plot of this piece does not differ much
from that or several other Italian dramas which have al-
ready appeared on the same stage. Adclasia, the daugh-
ter of a Grecian Emperor, 011 one, has married Alerannc4
a person not only of an inferior rank, but suspected of
bt:ing a rebel. Their retreat is discovered by their pro:,a.
tutor, Ruisbal.lo, a rejected lover of the Princess, and
they are brought before the Emperor, who dooms the
huspand to die, and his daughter, as a still severer punish-
ment, to live. She then introduces her children, and
with their mixed intreaties, assisted by those of her
mother, is on the point of obtaining Aleranno's forgive-
tress, when a sedition, falsely said to have been excited
by him, leads the Emperor to confirm his sentence. On
. the eve of his execution, however, Rambaldo's treachery
is discovered, and Akranno is restored to freedom,

honours, and felicity.
Maclaine Sessi, lately from Paris, made her first ap-
pearance in the part of Adelasia. Her adoption of the
ridiculous and inelegant Parisian dress, in contempt of
the Grecian costume, which she ought to have worn, was
not likely to create a preve►►tion in her favour. It de-
prived her of all personal grace, and probably encreased
the awkwardness of her gestures. The strength and
clearness of her yoke, however, caused those disadvan-
tages to be overlooked. Her tones are snore sonorous
than mellifluous. Her compass is extensive, and her ex-
ecution tasteful. She, however, wants the true soul of
all harmony—feeling. There is brilliancy in her notes to
please the ear, but little expression to touch the heart.
Viten she has learnt to enter into the sentiments of the
character which she represents, to unitegrace of action
with expressive melody, and to wear a more becoming and
appropriate dress, with the taste and powers which she
possesses, she will attain considerable eminence. "
Signor Geni in OU"ne, displayed the remains of a plea-
ting, though not powerful tenor, and considerable .purity
of taste and execution.

Signor Graam in Alerannel promises to become a very
valuable acquisition to the stage. his voice is a very
sweet tenor, not deficient in power, aad of coosiewablo

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