The Sun.
London, England, 1851-04-22 00:00:00

EASTER AMUSEMENTS.

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
Her Mbjesty's Theatre re-opens this evening with
en extraordinary array of attractions. Mademoiselle
uprez appears for the first time in England, as Adina
{in L'Elisir d'Amore), the second character which
Blatt sustained in Paris, and in which she obtained the
!manirnous approbation of the French public. The
'mortal Lablache appears (for the first time this sea-
S"), presenting his ever-welcome and undiminished
form in the garb of the quack doctor, Dulcatnara ;
and the addition of Coletti, who is the Belcore of the
night, makes the cast remarkably powerful. The
charming ballet, Les Metamorphoses, in which Car-
lotta Grisi displays, not only her unequalled chore-
graphic skill, but her power of individualized persona-
t °ll, to an extent of which, until the production of
this ballet, the public had not an idea, will follow the
.o,pera, and thus complete the carte, which is one of
the choicest, as well as one of the most interesting,
that the direction could lay before the fastidious
habitue.

Is On Thursday, Illasaniello will be repeated for the
unnefit of the non subscribers ; and a more brilliant
!114 desirable night, for those whose visits to her Ma-
Jest Y's Theatre are not habitual, could hardly be an-
nounced, for, in addition to the admirably executed
and brilliantly mounted opera (which comprises a
ballet of no ordinary variety), Les Metamorphoses
*ill enrich the affiche.
On Saturday we have a delnit of great interest, as
Itaheil as the first performance, for the season, of one of
afinest operas in the repertoire. Lucrezia Borgia
11 be given, with Mademoiselle Alaymo as the
heroine. Mademoiselle Ida Bertrand will support her
la Orsini, and Mr. Sims Reeves (whose French sue-
tesaes have been as remarkable as they were deserved)
Igannnunced for Gennaro.
This day week (Tuesday, the 29th), the fascinating
prima donna Sontag makes her debut as La Figlia del
Reggimento. Any addition to such an intimation
lynnld be worse than needless.
A. nd the new opera by Alary, Le Tre Nozze, is in
actpreparation. We must not forestall its attrac •
11:3ns; but among the incidents is a polka, danced by
ablache and Madame Sontag, which appears to have
ealruptured the French spectators. The triumphant
hi under which Mr. Lumley carried through
18 earlier season afford a guarantee, additional to that
°,,1, his own tact, energy, and liberality, for the sue-
481ea of that more important portion of the operatic
Tar in which the whole force of a first-rate company
Paraded in presence of the whole elite of fashionable
4°Ciety.

DRURY-LANE THEATRE.
44-
a English version of The Robbers of Schiller,
from, the pen of Mr. Anderson, the lessee, was pro-
duced here last evening, with great success. This,
'o°,o moat celebrated of Schiller's works, and the work
iall others that has, perhaps, in Germany, produced
,„m! greatest moral, political, and social effects, is, as
• l'2lginally written,unactable, not only from its inordi-
ogate length—it is three times as long as the longest
f
Shakspere's plays—but from the argumentative
a metaphysical character of many of the speeches,
o),""
to Speak more correctly, essays which Schiller has
:VII to several of his characters to recite. In the
• ‘ing German edition all these are cut out, and the
Iteiclents and situations are brought closer together ;
t
41a edition Mr. Anderson has adopted as his foun-
ti°,a, and has by judicious condensation transformed
th
lOng rambling, argumentative play of Schiller
to a stirring, well-built melodrama. It is as
elliletely a work of supererogation to detail
14° plot of The Robbers as it would be
'ietail the plot of Othello. Every German scholar
:07,8 and every English playgoer has seen divers
versions of it at the minor theatres, while to the
tra goer it is familiar as the plot of 1 Masnadeiri.
d 1„6 Play was strongly cast; Mr. Anderson, as Charles
Moor, was very effective ; he seemed the very beau
'al of the moody predestined robber chief, his act-
ieg was full of energy. In the last scene of the fourth
if which he releases his father from the dungeon
: which his brother had confined him, and calls
;Pao his band to avenge the old man's wrongs, the
tr,inel? of Mr. Anderson was very fine, and the con-
totilumg scene of the play was admirable for its calm
enmity. Miss H. Gilbert, a dibutante, was the
lehatelia, and looked and acted the character excel-
t4ll.Y. Although a debutante here, it is evident that
,18 lady has been used to the stage and thoroughly
door
her profession. The villain Francis de
"4.00 r was performed by Mr. Cathcart with great
• tare and judgment. He had evidently studied the
Part carefully, and made every sentence tell. We have
°ever before seen Mr. Cathcart to so great advantage.
Old De Moor found a careful and judicious representa-
tive in Mr. Cooper and the minor characters were all
'Wall performed. and
grouping of the robber bands
Was admirable, and the scenery some of the most
beautiful ever presented : there was one scene, a sun-
let on the Danube, followed by moonlight, which
Was a beautiful specimen of pictorial and dioramio
effect. The applause was frequent throughout the
play, and at the conclusion there were loud calls for
Mr. Anderson. Azael followed, and the holiday folks
here in ecstacies of delight at the gorgeous splendour
'r this magnificent spectacle. The house was
crowded.

HAYMARKET THEATRE.
The performances at this theatre last evening com-
m
.!need with Sir E. B. Lytton's favourite play of the
reaY of Lyons, the character of the proud Pauline
Laahappelles being admirably sustained by Miss
t 0 the
Addison. The part is one that is well suited
04) talent of Miss Addison, and it was played by
Ile
la a manner which must greatly enhance the re-
tation she has already acquired by her Isabella,
14141141a' Emilia, &c. ; she is now undoubtedly en-
titled to to rank with the greatest tragic actresses on the
stage. Mr. J. William Wallack gave an ex-
wi Claude
interpretation of the rather difficult character
Melnotte ; he was much applauded, and
Ilea Miss Addison was called for at the end of the
t
Y. The new burlesque, which followed, is written
the brothers Brough, and is founded on Balfe's well
i;'"?11 opera of the Bohemian Girl, the plot of which
(43kept to pretty closely. Thaddeus of Warsaw, a
leitressed Pole, driven from his country by the ruth-
as laws of debtor and creditor, was excellently
,jecl and tung by Miss P. Horton. Arline was re-
",„ eated hy Miss Annie 'Romer, Count Florestine
Mrs.. L. S. Buckingham, Count Arnheim,
41t1ta the " Heart bowed down," by the inimitable
Atl.les Bland, the Gipsy Queen, confessing to
tooln the census, by Mr. H. Bedford, and Devils-
by Mr. Buckstone. The burlesque is full of
Ikter hits at all the leading topics of the day—the
eaisterlal crisis, the case of Miss Talbot, Smith-
eit
ird•market, &c., and of good parodies on the principal
ali IlLin the original opera. Some of the incidents are
:41IY altered, such as the substitution of the fair of
to eenwich for that of Presburg, and instead of the
Ar,t°,,alission produced by Thaddeus in proof of his
entreating
birth, an advertisement is handed to the Count,
t'treating " T., of W. to return to his disconsolate
trielids, as by the death of a rich relative all his
*tditra have been satisfied, and a large sum depo-
-I:ad for him in the Three per Cents." H. Bedford
bts very good in the Gipsy Queen, and Buckstone as
be ilshoof kept the house in a roar of laughter whilst
ili,was on the stage. The burlesque was entirely
th,7,easful, and was announced for repetition amidst
°Loud applause of a very full house.

ADELPHI THEATRE.
The performances at this theatre last night pre-
Aired little that was entirely new ; but they were
kexcellent of their kind. The opening piece was
1;: Bayle Bernard's drama of Marie Ducange, in
buleh Madame Celeste excited general and well-
11rited applause by the high degree of interest which
we threw into the principal character; and Mr.
lor.ight was irresistibly droll as an erratic and specu-
-41.4e adventurer who, struck with the notion that
Itill the present over-wrought state of the British
Itt,l", the various watering-places on our coast are
4Lsolutely necessary as an outlet to the superabundant
VI which would otherwise burst and destroy so.
t4hir," employs himself in the laudable, but, as for-
'fiCthe Would have it, the hopeless attempt, to induce all
Whom he comes in contact to join him in form-
aV joint-stock company to erect suitable places of
4-sernent, to render the watering places attractive.
tigre Ducange was followed by the amusing farce
11„' °Won Fog, in which Mr. Wright and Mr. P.
ford contrived to keep the house in a roar of
fighter from beginning to end. The performances
Vuded with " A. new musical, historical, pastoral,
fairy drama," called O'Flannigan and the
8; or, a Midsummer Night's Dream (not
Itc,"Pere's). Phelim O'Flannigan, a young
surnan sworn against liquor (11Ir. Ilud-
ti) • I
1/111., is betrothed to Mary Kiernan (Miss K..Fi.tz-
-14 pla,P). On the day before the wedding he is in-
is%-`4: to go to a fair in the county of Wicklow, where
Iseral, Ned Flinch (Mr. Braid), involves him in a
'1"1, fight ; in which, however, Flannigan becomes
IDOetnr, and ends the day in a fit of intoxication.
143 ,!'e under the influence of liquor he dreams that
lit bedroom is haunted by sundry fairies, and that he
ithePrehended for breaking into the wine-cellar of a
0414 of peace in Lancashire, and sentenced to die.
144, awaking, he is happy to find that all his troubles
Ab:„Lriecurred in a dream, and that, instead of being
Stcll'. to be executed, he is within a few hours of his
'ng. The piece is an adaptation of the drama of
44-Zoe name in which poor Power used to perform,
the the manuscript of which perished with him in
11 pa resident in 1841. The dialcgue, which, we be-
-41 ei:11 has been mostly rewritten, is full of point ; the
Ntt'ats are bustling and animated, and there are
S,.ered here and there some pleasing snatches of
41i'r,t° which Miss Fitzwilliam, Miss Collins, and
1,4'1'. Roney, did ample justice. Mr. Hudson made
•vitzattY, rollicking, spirited Irishman, and Miss K.
William, Min Collins, and Ikliss E. Chaplin sus-