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

THE ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA,

Verdi's favourite opera," Un Ballo in Meeehera,"
after a two years' absence from the boards of
Covent-garden, was performed anew there on
Saturday. Our remarks upon the presetat 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. Ta-night the repeti-
tion of Rossini's "Guglieirao Tell" is the attraction.
Another repetition, that of Donizetti'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 " La Prophete," with Madlle. Destinn as
Fides, and Signor 'Wachtel as Jean of Leyden.
His Royal Highness Prince Arthur, at-
tend,. el by Major Elphinstone and Captain
Danally, honoured the performances with
his presence on Tuesday last. Their Royal High-
nesses the Grand Duke and Duchess of Mecklen-
burg Strelitz and the Princess Mary, attended by
the Countess of Westmoreland, Colonel Clifton, and
the Baron Plassun, were present on Thursday.
Amongst the fashionable company attending the
performances during
th© week have been the Prince
Louis fßonapar;e, his Excellency the Ambassador
P.
of France, his
Excellency the Austrian Am-
bassador, and the Countess Appeal, his Excellency
the Itaiiia Minlater,the Duke and Duchess of Wel-
lington, the Duke of Granada, the Duke and Duchess
of Sutherland,
the Hanoverian Charge d'Affaires
and the Baroness Biome, the Marquis of Her-
tington, Madame Van de Weyer, the Marquis
Lady Alice Hill, of Hastings, the Marchioness of Duwnshire and
the Marquis and Marchioness of
Bath, the Marquis of Sligo, the Marchioness of
Ely and Lady Marian Loftus, the Countess of
Bradford, the Countess of Harrington and Lady
Geraldine Stanhope, the Earl and Countess of West-
morland and Lady Emily Kingseote, the Earl of
Dudley, the Earl Granville, the Earl of Uxbridge,
the Countess of Fife and Leidy Anne Duff, the
Countess of Mount Charles, the Earl and Countess
of Bective, Viscountess Newry and Miss Needham,
Viscount and Viscountess Holmesdale, Viscount
Crantoarne, Viscount Sudley, Viscount and Vis-
countess Sidney, Viscount Ranelagh, the Lord Chief
Justice of Ecgland, Lady Annaly and the Hon.
Miss White, Lady
de Blaquiere, Lord E. Thynne„
Lady Agnes Murray, Lady Clarges, Lady Alfred
Churchill, Lord E. St. Maur, Lord and Lady Bain-
Mr. and Lady Gweedoline
Petre, Lady A. Wentworth and
tyre, Lady E. Hastings,
Miss 'Wentworth,
Lady Pannaure and Mr. Power, Captain and Lady '
Anne Sherson, Hon. Captain Edveardes, Hon. Mr.
and Mrs. Beet, Hon. Henry Eliot, Colonel the Hon.
James Macdonald and Mrs. Macdonald and the
Hon. Miss Blake, Hon. Otway Toler, Hon. Richard
Bethel! and Mies Bothell, Hon. Mrs. Claughton,
Major the Hon, J. and Mrs. Anson, Hon. Frederick
Leveeon 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 Burton, Colonel Grant,
Colonel Farquiharzon of Invercauld, Colonel Airey,
Captain and Mrs. Brand, Colonel Maclean, Colonel
Nlinchin, Captain and Miss Stracey, Captain Ber-
keley, Captain Findyer, Captain Buckley, Colonel
and Mrs. Mac George, Captain Womb well, Major
Gage, &c.

MR, ALFRED WIGAN has been playing IT
at Liverpool.

Mn. CHARLES KEAN'S HEALTH, according to the
latest accounts, is re-established, but he will not imme-
diately return to England, as had been announced,
THREE-ACT PLAY, " MOI," iII ivhich M.
Regnier is greatly commended by those who should know,
is having a certain vogue at the Theatre Francais.

111, FREDERIC LEIVAICRE, whom we Imagined to
have quitted the stage, has reappeared at L'Ambigu.
Cosuique in a iiv©•act play, by M, Plouvier, "Le Comte
do S4ulles.'!