The Sun.
London, England, 1856-08-04 00:00:00

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.

The operatic season closed at her Majesty's Theatre on
Saturday evening in a manner that proved that though
fashion bade the final fall of the curtain at the close of the
London "year," it was not through any diminution of at-
traction or exhaustion of talent. The opera was "La
Traviata," in which Mdlle. Piccolomini excited the enthu-
siasm of her audience, despite the Indian climate that pre-
vailed in the theatre, as warmly as on the first occasion
that she presented " Violetta" on the Haymarket boards.
At the close of the opera she was compelled to reappear,
when her admirers almost overwhelmed her with plaudits
and posies. Between The acts of the opera a ballet diver-
tissement was introduced, in which Madllo. Katrina and
M. Vaudris sustained the chief parts. The grand ballet of
the " Corsaire" closed the entertainments. Between the
opera and the ballet the National Anthem was performed
by the company, the solo parts being taken by Madlle.
Piccolomini, Maddle. Finoli, and Signori Calzolari; Bel-
letti, and Beneventano.
The Queen's box was occupied, on this occasion, by Gen.
Bouverie, Mrs. Bouverie, Mr. P. Bouverie, the Misses
Cole, Miss Price, Mr. A. Buckley. Among the fashion-
ables who honoured the performance with their presence
were the following :—The Duke and Duchess of Welling-
ton, and Lady Julia Hay, the Duchess of Richmond, Lord
A. Lennox, the Duke of Cleveland, and Lady A. Paulet,
the Earl of Hard wicke, the Marquis de Neva, the Mar-
quis Terry de Nerli, Earl Sandwich, the Count de Berke,
the Dowager Countess of Harrington, the Countess Bel-
lew, the Countess Dysart, the Countess Blantyre, the
Countess Flahault, and the Hon. Miss Flahault, Viscount
Exmouth, Viscount Maidstone, Lord and Lady Overstone,
Lord Ward, Lady Goldschmidt, Lord and Lady de Tabley,
Lady Stacey, Lady Rashleigh, Lady Georgians, Fane, his
Excellency the Portuguese Minister, Sir J. Kinnerstone,
Bart., Sir R. and Lady Howard, his Highness Meer Ali
Moorad Khan, Talpoor Rais of Khyerpoor Scinde, his
Highness Meer Fyaz Mahomed Khan Talpoor, Mr. E.
Lees Coffey, the Hon. Mrs. Henry Ward, the Hon. Chas.
Hembury, the Hon. Mrs. Cust, Sir H. Webb, Bart., Sir
P. Cautley, Bart., the Hon. Mrs. Pitt, Sir M. and Lady
Wyatt, Lady Jane Hay, the Hon. T. Bruce, the Right
Hon. H. L. Corry, M.P., Col. the Hon. J. Macdonald,
Colonel Lockyer Freestun, M.P., and Mrs. Lockyer Free-
stun, Sir Thomas and Lady Barrett Lennard, Lady Fryer,
Miss Beaucleik, Miss Emily Wyndham, Mr. Gaudin,
Major Fletcher, Major Farrar, Captain Evelyn, Miss Olivia
Wynne, Mr. Vandeleur, Mr. Woodyate, Mrs. Gilbert,
General G. Cavendish, Mr. M. Macdonald, Major Pole,
Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Smith, Mr. C. J. Palmer, Mrs. Wm.
Palmer, Mr. and Mrs. Draper, Captain Palmer, Captain
Lyon, Captain Hamilton, Mr. Craven, Mr. Percy Doyle,
Mr. Bushell, Mr. A. Montgomery, Mr. 11. Hope, Mr. J.
M. McGregor, M.P., Major Pugh, M.P., Mr. and Mrs.
Dacosta, Mrs. and Miss Russell, Mrs. and Miss Wilson,
Mrs. Tollemache, Mr. Toome, Mrs. and Mrs. Gardner, Mrs.
Palliser, Mrs. Calclough, Mr. Kerven, Mr. and Mrs. Bell,
Mrs. and Miss Boyle, Mr. and Mrs. Rush, Mrs. and Miss
Mattley, Mrs. Stapleton, Mr. and Mrs. Wheeler, Mrs.
Probin, Mr. and Mrs. Bebb, Mr. Arnold, Mrs. Nicole,

Miss Vance, Mrs. and Miss Robarts, Mr. and Mrs. Percy,
Mr. Bisset, Lieut.-Colonel Seymour, Mrs. Stanley, Mrs.
Strangwayes, Major Bradley, Colonel and Mrs. St. Quin.
ton, Captain Brown, Captain Richardson, Mrs. and Miss
Richardson, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Kay, and Captain Lester.