The Sun.
London, England, 1864-04-25 00:00:00

THE ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA,

Verdi's favourite opera, " Un Ballo in 'Maschere,"
after a two years' absence from the boards of
Ceaeut-gardee, was performed anew there on
Saturday. Our remarks upon the presemt cast of
this least ambitious, though, in some respects, most
charming, among Verdi's popular 'yrical dramas,
must to-day be unavoidably postponed. To morrow
the same opera will be repeated. To-night the repeti-
tion of Rossini's "Guglielmo Tell" is the attraction.
Another repetition, that of Donizotti's " La
Favorite," is the attraction to the Royal Italian
set apart for Thursday. While, for Saturday, Mr.
Gye announces on his programme the performance,
for the first time this season, of Meyerbeer's Grand
opera of " Le Prophete," with Madlle. Destinn as
Fides, and Signor Wachtel as Jean of Leyden.
His Royal Highness Prince Arthur, at-
tended by Major Elphinstone and Captain
Dorsally, honoured the performances with
his presence on Tuesday last. Tlie:r Royal High-
ceases the Grand Duke and Duchess of Mecklen-
burg Strelitz and the Princess ilary, attended by
the Countess of Westmoreland, Colonel Clifton, and
the Baron Plasson, were present on Thursday.
Amongst the fashionable company attending the
performances during the week have been the Prince
Louis lßonaparte, his Excellency the Ambassador
of France, his Excellency the Austrian Am-
bassador, and the Countess Appcnyi, his Excellency
the Italian Minister, the Duke and Duchess of Wel-
lington, the Duke of Granada, tle Duke and Duchess
of Sutherland, the Hanoveriin Charge d'Affaires
and the Baroness Blotne, the Marquis of Har-
tington, Madame Van de Weyer, the Marquis
of Hastings, the Marchioness of Dawnshire and
Lady Alice Hill, the Marquis and Marchioness of
Bath, the Marquis
of Sligc, the Marchioness of
Ely and Lady Marian Loftus, the Countess of
Bradford, the Countess of Hariegton and Lady
Geraldine Stanhope, the Earl and Countess of West-
morland and Lady az-
Emill
Dudley, the Earl Granville, the Earl of Uxbridge,
the Countess of Fite and a'LialjagyBc:atne' Anne Duff, Earl of
Duff, the
Countess of Mount Charles, the Earl and Countess
of Bective, Viscountess Newry and Miss Lieeunatn,
Viscount and Viscountess Hoaneedale, Viscount
Crantourne, Viscount Sudley, Viscount and Via-
countess Sidney, Viscount Ranelagh, the Lord Chief
Justice of England, Lady
Annaly and the Hon.
Miss White, Lady de Blaquiere, Lord E. Thy nne,
Lady Agnes Murray, Lady Clargeos Lady Alfred
Churchill, Lord. E. St. Maur, Lord and Lady Blan-
tyre, Lady E. Hastings, Mr, cad Lady Owendoline
Petro, Lacy A. Wentworth and Miss Wentworth,
Lady Panmure and Mr. Power, Captain and Lady
Anne Sherson, Hon. Captain Eclvvardes, Hon. Mr.
and Mrs. Best, Hon. Henry Effot, Colonel the Hon.
James Macdonald and Mrs. Macdonald and the
Hon. Miss Blake, Hon. °Lacey Toler, Hon, Richard
Bethell and Miss Bethell,
Hon. Mrs, Claughton,
Major the Hon, J. and Mrs. Anson, Hon. Frederick
Leveson Gower, M.P,, Colonel Loyd Lindsay and
the Hon, Mrs. Loyd Lindsay, Hon. Mr. Spring
Rice, Hon. R. Meade, Hon. Mrs. Murray, Hon.
Charles Barrington, Sir James and Lady Colville,
Sir John and Lady Simeon, Sir James and Lady
Montgomery, Sir William Jolliffa and the Misses
Jolliffe, Sir William Scott and Miss Scott, Sir Henry
Cotterell, Sir John and Lady Fisher, Sir Claud
Scott and Miss Scott, Sir J. Mackenzie, Sir F. R.
Sandford, Admiral Ryder Barto9, Colonel Grant,
Colonel Farquharsoa of Irivercauld, Colonel Aircy,
Captain and Mrs. Brand, Colonel Maclean, Colonel
Minchin, Captain and Miss Stracey, Captain Ber-
keley, Captain Fludyer, Captain Buckley, Colonel
and Mrs. Mac George, Captain Wombwell,, Major
Gage, 8.7 c.

MR. ALFRED WIGAN has been playing Hamlet
at Liverpool.
MR. CHARLES KEAN'S HEALTEI, according to the
latest accounts, is re-established, but he will not imme-
diately return to England, as had been announced.
THE THREE-ACT PLAY, "Mol," in which M.
Regnier is greatly commended by those who should know,
is having a certain vogue at the Theatre Francais.

M. FREDERIC LEMAITRE, whom we Imagined to
have quitted the stage, has reappeared at L'Ambigu
Comique in a tivo•act play, by I 4 l'louvier, "Le Comie
de Saulles.l!