The Sun.
London, England, 1841-03-12 00:00:00

IIER MAJESTY'S OPERA.

Her Majesty's Theatre opened last evening
for the 'season with Cimarosa's opera seria GU!
Orazij i Curazy. The compositions of Cima-
rosa are not so well known to many of our mo-
dern opera-goers as they ought to be. He was
the father of the modern brilliant school of
music, and prepared the public taste to appre-
ciate the works of his great successor Rossini.
We hail, therefore, this revival of one of his
best operas, and hope that it is not the only one
of Cimarosa's compositions which M. Laporte
intends to revive during the season. Madame
Pauline Viardot (late Pauline Garcia) was the
Horatia. This lady has improved vastly in her
acting since she made her appearance on these
boards two years since ; and now bids fair to
.rival in acting, as well as in singing, the fame
of her sister, poor Madame Malibran. Her
grand scena in the second act " Quegli Suoni,"
was a perfect triumph of art. Nothing could
exceed the thrilling effect which she threw
into the concluding words of the scena,
"Oh teatro d'orrere." Mario was the Marco
Orazio, and had the, part been written for him,
it could not by possibility have suited him bet-
ter; his exquisite falsetto notes came beautifully
into play in the aria " Se alla patria," in the
first act, and he sang the whole of the air, in it-
self a most beautiful composition, in a style of such
exquisite taste as to force loud applause from what
appeared to us to be rather an unenthusiastic house .
The duett at the close of the close of the piece,
" Svenami ormai crudele " was most effectively
given by Mario and Madame Viardot, who were
called for at the fall of the curtain, and received
with the usual honours. We are glad to perceive
that this very talentedyoung man is increasing in
public favour in this country. Whenever Ru-
bini shall have put his often-threatened design:
of retiring from the stage into execution, w©
know of no one so fitting to become
his successor as Mario. Curiazzo found
a very efficient representative in Miss A.
Nunn, who made her first appearance
at this theatre last evening, but whose perform-
ances at various concerts during the winter have
.made a favourable impression on the public.
After the opera, the National Anthem was sung,
the solo parts by Miss Nunn and Madame
Viardot. The audience seemed quite taken by
surprise by the energy and enthusiasm with
which Madame Viardot gave her part of " God
save the Queen," and which contrasted strongly
and most favourably with the careless manner i
which this fine composition, is usually sloven:A
over. The new ballet of Le Diable Amoureta
followed—a very splendid affair, and much sup.; -
nor to the general run of pieces of this sort.
Mademoiselle Guy Stephani made her first
appearance -in England in •the character o
Uriele. She is not only a clever, graceful dancer
of the Cerito school, but she is also a most ac-
complished, arch, and espiegle actress. She was
loudly and deservedly applauded, and .M. La-
porte will, no doubt, find her a most efficient ad-
dition to his corps. Albert made his first ap-
pearance here these two years; during the inter-
val he has lost nibthing of his grace or agility ;
he was loudly applauded on his first appearance.
The house was well filled.