The Sun.
London, England, 1856-05-07 00:00:00

GRIND EXHIBITION of AMERICAN
PLANTS, by Waterer and Godfrey, Kw-hill Nursery.
Woking, Surrey. will commence the Last Week in May, in the colossal
Pavilion erected for the purpose in .Ashbtunham-park, adjoining
CREMORNE GARDENS.

MR. W. S. WOODIN'S OLIO of ODDITIES.
Fifty instantaneous Metamorphoses of Voice, Character,
and Costume, concluding with an impersonation of 3111 e. Rachel, as
Camille, in " Les Horace a," TO-I 3 !MIT and every evening, at 8.
Private boxes and stalls may be secured in advance, without extra
charge. Polyzraphie-hall, King William:street, Charing-cross. A
Performance every Saturday Morning at 2 o'clock, and night at 8.

ROYAL GARDENS, CREMORNE, Daily,
One Slfilling.Concerts, Ballet, Devaul, Performing Dogs,
riivertisernent, Terpsichorean Galas, Imitations, Peres Nena, Charac-
teristic Spanish Pauces. &c.
Sunday from 4 o'c'ock. Selections,of appropriate Music performed
lby the Baud •f the Grenadier Guards. Conductor, M.: chott. Ad-
Inission frees

BE PARTICULAR to address at full length
BENJAMIN EDGINGTON,
2. Drake-street, Southwark.
MARQUEES, TENT,, and RICK. CLOTHS.

RICK CLOTHS.—A large quantity of Canvas
intended for the Crimea has been made into TUCK CLOTHS,
f, be sold as second-hand at ORE AILY REDUCED PRICES.
A List forwarded by post.— Address in full, Benjamin Edgington,
2, Duke-street, Southwark.

II ER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
SEASON 1856.
It is respectfully announced that the OPERA SEASON
will COMMENCE on SATURDAY next, the 10th of May.
On resuming the performances which have been suspended
during the last three years, the Director of her Majesty's
Theatre is anxious to assure the patrons of the Opera and
the public, that no exertion shall be wanting to secure for
this establishment that high position it so long maintained ;
and he trusts that the renewal of the enterprise under more
prosperous auspices will be accompanied with that favour
and support which no frequenter of the Opera needs to be
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 corn-
, meneement of a long and arduous struggle to maintain.tbe
fortunes of the old house ; and it was not till the wealth of
four successive competitors had been fruitlessly lavished upon
the rival theatre, that Mr. Lumley was reluctantly compelled
to retire from the contest.
From 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. He has received liberal encouragement from every
side, and, effectually aided by noble 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.
In the acoustic properties, so essential to the effective pro-
duction of the lyrical drama, it is acknowledged to surpass
every other stage 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
and Ballet, will, it is confidently hoped, be thought worthy
rt the former reputation 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, are not yet fully com-
pleted; and negotiations aro in progress from which impor-
tant accessions are expected.
The following arrangements have been completed :
OPERA.
•
MADAME ALBONI,
Her first appearance in London these five years.
MDLLE. PIC COLOMONI,
Her first appearance.
MDLLE. GIUDITTA RIZZA, MDLLE. FINOLI,
Their first appearance!
MADAME AMA.DEI, 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 those six years.
SIGNOR MARIANI,
And
SIGNOR CALZOLARI.

SIGNOR BENEVENTANO,
Of la coma, Milan ; of the Italian Opera, Madrid ; and the
Principal Theatres of Italy ; his first appearance.
SIGNOR VARIO, SIGNOR FORTINI,
SIGNOR BAILLOU,
SIGNOR ZUCCONI,
Italy, his first appearance.