The Sun.
London, England, 1851-04-09 00:00:00

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.

Mademoiselle Caroline Duprez appeared last evening in
the character of Amine, in La Sonnainbula, and achieved
certainly her greatest triumph hitherto. Her youthful and in
appearance, her impassioned, yet at the same time
artless and frank style of acting, and above all her exquisitely
modulated, clear, silvery, fresh, flexible, and perfectly culti-
vated voice, pointed her out at once as the representative
par excellence of the artless suffering peasant girl, whose
sorrows touch all hearts. She gave the delightful cavatina
in the first act, " Come per me sereno," with the
most exquisite taste, and the succeeding duet with Elvino,
whether considered as a piece of vocalization or of acting,
was absolutely faultless. In the somnambulist scene, in
which she is discovered in Rodolpho's bed-room, Madill:).
Caroline Duprez proved herself an actress of the
very highest order. It had been usual with her
predecessors in this part, when awakened by the sudden
irruption of the villagers, to, rise at once suddenly from the
couch and rush forward—much more true to nature was the
rendering of Mdlle. Caroline Duprez. When first aroused
she casts a bewildered look around her, and re-
mains for a few seconds " like one distraught,"
and it is net until the hands have been passed once or twice
over the forehead, and she collects her scattered senses, that
she becomes aware of her situation, and then, with an in-
tensity of agony that words cannot describe, rushes
towards Elvino. Nothing could exceed the beauty of her
acting, and of her singing during the remainder of this most
trying scene; honour to Mademoiselle Duprez for the con-
scientious manner in which she rendered the music of
Bellini, and resisted temptations to which too many of
her predecessors in this part have yielded. She had her re-
ward; never has this scene as a whole been so effectively
rendered, the audience felt that this was the case, and at the
conclusion she was called on and rapturously applauded.
The far• famed finale, " Ah ! non ginnge," was most bril-
liantly, and at the same time most expressively ren-
dered, and excited a perfect furore. At the fall
of the curtain: she was called on three times;
but even this did not satisfy the audience, who demanded its
repetition. This demand was complied with, and Madlle.
Caroline Duprez was again called on. Coletti, who was in
excellent voice, made his first appearance for the season in
the character of Rodolpho, and sang the " Vi raviso" most
effectively. Calzolari resumed his old character of Elvino,
the character in which he achieved his earliest triumph here,
and he never sang more exquisitely. Ho was most de-
servedly encored in the "Ah perchZ,." Madlle.
Feller was the Lisa, and made more of the
character than any one who has yet appeared in it.
At the conclusion of the opera Carlotta Grisi danced the
Truandaise in the most fascinatingly: coquettish style
imaginable:; and Sig. Coletti appeared in the last
scene of I due Foscari as the old Doge, and acted
magnificently. The pretty Watteau Ballet concluded
the amusements of the evening. Notices were posted
about the theatre, announcing that the copyright of Alary's
new and successful opera, Le Tre Nozze, had been:secured for
her Majesty's Theatre, and that the principal characters
would be sustained by Madame Sontag and Signori La-
blache and Ferranti.