The Sun.
London, England, 1856-05-12 00:00:00

Alboni win the laurel wreath, and the flowers
thrown to her as the performance closed, and the

hearty call which summoned Cinderella and her

companions in thedramatised love-story before the
footlights between the two comprehensive acts.
Several abbreviations occurred according to wont,

shortening these two, however, rather consider-
ably—scenes 10 and 11 in Act i., and scenes 3
and 7 iai Act ii., being bodily " cut out " with
shears as remorseless as those of Atropos. Cal-
zolari's great triumph was of course in "Si
ritrovarla io giuro," and in the lovely duet with

Angelina, "Un soave non so che." Beneventi
gaining a hearty round of applause by Dandini's
ever welcome aria, "Come un' ape ne' giorni

d' Aprile," Zucconi winning to himself both "hands"
and "laughter" by Don Magnifico's marvellous
assinine dream " Miei rampoli feminini ;" these
two very clever buffo singers together rendering
afterwards with delightful humour the ever-fresh
and ever-famous comic duet " Tin segreto d'im-
portanza." Once and once only there was a
"hitch" in the stage management, and a " hitch"
occurring awkwardly enough as it happened in the
midst of that most important scene 5, Act
in which a thunder storm (contrary to all our ideas
of the natural) rolls up in about two minutes, and
Don Ramiro's carriage is supposed to be over-
turned. Calzolari's gaucherie in keeping the stage
waiting during several minutes, however, was
allowed to pass over with just the faintest token
imaginable of the " goose," drowned immediately
afterwards in a good deal of well-tempered
laughter, when the Don at last managed to make
his appearance. For—was it not the " first
night," of a season prepared for with an astonish-
ing display of promptitude in every department
of that vast lyrical establishment, from Mr.
Marshall, with his splendid scene painting down
to the humblest of the stage carpenters ? Alto-
gether, Saturday evening was the occasion of a
brilliant success for Mr. Lumley as the reinstalled
Director of her Majesty's Theatre—and such that
gentleman must have felt it to be, when, after the
performance of the National Anthem, at the con-
clusion of the opera, he was summoned upon the
stage by his first night's patrons, to be there wel-
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tertainment. Mademoiselle Katrine (a Russian
danseuse and debutante) being " Spring," Made-
, moiselte Lizereux, " Summer," Madle. Albert
Bellon " Autumn," and Mdle. Boschetti " Win-
ter" —M. Nadaud leading the music in the
orchestra, and M, Petit having acted judiciously
as the maitre de Ballet. Among the very brilliant
and fashionable company present were the follow-
' rug :

The Duke and Duchess of Bedford, the Duchess
of Montrose, the Duchess of Wellington, the Duke
and Duchess of Somerset, the Duke of Devonshire,
the Marchioness of Bath, the Marquis of Sligo, the
Marquis and Marchioness of Clanrcarde, the French
Ambassador and Madame de Persigny, his Highness
Aali Pacha, the Earls of Westmoreland, Malmesbury,
Cardigan, Loosdale, Wilton, Durham, Stamford and
Warrington, Hopetoun ; Ladies Jersey, St. Leopards,
Lichfield, Bective, Stamford and Warrington
Harrington, Kelly, Stafford, Dungarvon ; Lords Ward,
Mountcbarles, Cavendish, Burghersh, Canterbury,
Sandys, Exmouth, Newark, Lichfield, Adolphus Fitz-
clare.nce, H. Thynne, Clifden ; the Lord Mayor, Sir J.
Bailey, Bart., Sir Win. Fraser, Hon. Reginald Capel,
Hon. Dudley de Roe, Sir Thos. and Lady B. Leonard,
Bart., Capt. Bateson, 111 r. Maclean, Mr. Magan, the
Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Spencer Lyttleton, Mrs. Twiss,
Hon. Mrs. Dudley Ward, Mrs. Trelawney, Hon. 0.
Ward, Dr. Young, Sir Alex. and Lady Woodford, Mr.
W. Frazer, Hon. Mr. Chichester, Sir P. Cautley, Mr.
Theodore Uzlelli, Sir John Lowther, I3art., Sir H.
Webb, Bart., Sir W. Abdy, Sir Joseph Bailey, Bart.,
Mr. Hubert de Burgh, Sir Thos. Sage, the Hon. Mrs.
Vernon, Col. Dixon, Mr. W. E. Wilkinson, Mr. Henry
Brown, Mr. J. Williams, Mr. H. Hope, Mr. Vansittart,
Mr. N. Macdonald, Mr. Crombie, Capt. Lyon, Mrs.
and Mrs. Tudor, Gen. the Hon. H. Cavendish, Hon.
, Mr. Craven, Sir G. Wombwell, Mr. Doyle, Capt.
Hamilton, Col. Morton, Capt. Webb, Capt. Gage, Mrs.
i Cooper, Col. White, Mr. Montgomery, Mr. A. Peel,
Miss Poole, Mr. A. Lumley, Mr. Campbell, Mrs. and
the Misses Godery, Mr. and Mrs. Roberts, the Hon,
Mrs. Boyle, &c,