The Sun.
London, England, 1856-04-26 00:00:00

HER MAJESTY'S -THEATRE:
SEASON 1856.
It is respectfully announced that tha OPERA SEASON
will COMMENCE on SATURDAY, the 10th of May. •_
On resuming the performances which have been suspended
during the last three years, the Director of her Majelty's
Theatre is anxious to assure the patrons of the Opera and
the•pnblic, that no exertion shall be wanting to secure for
this establishmest that high position it so long'maintained";
and he trusts that the renewal of the enterprise under morp
prospetwas auspices will be accompanied with that faWet
and support which no frequenter of the Opera needs tetbe
reminded were for so many years accorded to a brilliant and
successful management.
The secession, in 1847, of many of those performers who
had long been attached to the Opera House was the cons-
menoement of a long and arduous struggle to maintain the
fortunes of the old house; and it was not till the-wealth-of
tout successive competitors had boen fruitlessly lavished upon
the rival theatre, that Mr. Lumley was reluctantly compelled
to Ittire from the contest.
Front that time to the present Mr. Lumley's efforts have
been unremitting to re-open her Majesty's Theatre upon a
permanent basis, and to restore the Opera to its ancient
,home. Ile has received liberal encouragement from every
r side, and, effectually aided by neble and generous support
from a quarter where the refinements of art and taste never
fail to find a patron, he is now enabled gratefully to announce
the immediate resumption of performances.
At the present moment there are vocalists, of an excellence
' seldom surpassed, who have never been heard by an English
public. Of these the elite have been secured. for the present
season.
Her Majesty's Theatre is marked out by its size, its situa-
tion, and its convenience of access, no less than by old and
interesting associations, as the appropriate seat of the Opera.
Iu the acoustic properties, so essential to the effective pro-
duCtion of the lyrical drama, it is acknowledged to surpass
every ether stago in Europe. In consequence of some happy
accident of construction a result has been attained that science
has failed to explain, and that no architect could engage to
reproduce, by which the faintest tones and the most delicate
vocalisation penetrate with unimpaired clearness to the re-
motest recesses of the vast edifice.
The arrangements completed and in progress, both in Opera
and Ballet, will, it is confidently hoped, be thought worthy
of the former reputution of the Theatre, and of the just ex-
pectations of its distinguished supporters.
In consequence of the late period at which it was resolved.
to open the Theatre, the arrangements, satisfactory as it is
hoped they will even now be found, aro not yet fully com-
pleted ; and negotiations are in progress from which impor-
tant accessions are expected.
The following arrangements have been completed :-
0 P E RA.
MADAME ALBONI,
Her first appearanee in London these five years,
MDLLE.
Her first appearance.
MDLLE. GIUDITTA RIZZA, MDLLE. FINOLI,
Their first appearance!
MADAME AMADEI, MDLLE. BERTI,
Their first appearance.
And
MADAME ALBERTINI,
Her first appearance.
In addition to the above talent, an engagement has been
effected with
MDLLE. JOHANNA WAGNER,
Her first appearance.
SIGNOR SALVIANI,
Of La Pergola, Florence, his first appearance.
SIGNOR BOCARDE,
•
His first appearance in England these six years.
SIGNOR MARIAN',
And
SIGNOR CALZOLARI.