The Sun.
London, England, 1857-04-06 00:00:00

The enthusiasm which welcomed the re-opening of her Ma-
jesty's Theatre was not confined to the subscribers. The
hearty interest and genuine appreciation displayed by the
audiences who thronged the house from the first night to the
closing farewell demand the warmest thanks of the Director,
which he will endeavour practically to express by renewed
efforts in the service of the public.
The Director is most anxious to acknowledge how much he
is indebted to Maddle Piccolomini and all the artistes whose
talents contributed to the success of last year, not merely far
those efforts of genius which won the sympathy and admira-
tion of the subscribers and the public, but for that high
artistic feeling and honourable fidelity which secured the
audience from disappointment, and enabled the Direction to
produce the entertainments promised for each evening with-
out a single change of performance—a fact without precedent
In Operatic history.
The advantages peculiar to her Majesty's Theatre—its cen-
tral position, and associations now more than a century old
—give to it a natural pre-eminence of which no occasional
circumstances can ever permanently deprive it. These ad-
vantages will be turned to account by a Company combining
the prestige of acknowledged genius with the attraction of
new candidates for the highest rank of their profession. Those
who last year won favour at the hands of strangers will re-
appear to claim the cordial recognition which an English
audience never refuses to established favourites ; and the
direction has been further strengthened by an accession of
rew aspirants of the highest order, whose merits are already
acknowledged on the stages of Italy, and who only await the
verdict of the subscribers and frequenters of her Majesty's
Theatre to confirm their fikme. -
Although, in an Establishment especially devoted to Italian
Opera, the compositions of Italy will naturally predominate,
the sems of other schools will not be neglected.
Ballet will continue to be supported by the most famous of
established Artistes and the most premising of those who are
ambitions of the same distinction.
It is hoped that the organisation of every department will
prove completely worthy of that state of renewed prosperity
to which her Majesty's Theatre has now attained.
- The following are the arrangements already completed :
OPERA.

Madame ALBONI,
Mdle, MARIA SPEZIA

Mdle. BAILLOIT,
Madame FRANCHI,
Mdle. BERTI,
Mdle. POMA,

(Of La Scala, Milan ; La
Feniice, Venice ; San Carlos,
Lisbon, &c.—her first ap-
pearance),

Mdle. TRENETA RAMOS
(Of the Teatro Regio, Turin
—her first appearance),

Mdle. ANGibLA ORTOLANI
(Of La Scala, Milan; ,L'Ori-
• ente, Madrid, &c.—her first
appearance),

AND
Mdlo. PICCOLOMINI.

Fig. ANTONIO GIUGLINI,
(Of La Scala, Milan; Carlo
Felice, Genoa ; San Carlos,
&c.—his first appearance),

(Of La Scala, Milan, and
Italian Opera, Paris, &c.—
his first appearance),
Sig. BAILLOU,
Sig. DE SOROS,
Sig. GARIBOLDI,
AND
Sig. FILIPPO VIALETI'I
(Of La Scala, Milan ; La Fe.
nice, Venice:; L'Oriente,
Madrid, &c.—his first ap-
pearance).

Sig. JACOPI,
Sig• MERCTJRIALI,
Sig. LUIGI BOTTARDI
(Of the Carlo Felice, Genoa,
&c.—his first appearance),
Sig. BELLETTI,
Sig. BENEVENTANO,
Sig. NAPOLEONE ROSSI,
Sig. GIOVANNI CORSI
; Director of the Music and C
Sous-Directeur and Maitre d'
Suggeritore—Si,
BAL:
- -

conductor—Sig. BONETTI.
lu Chant—Sig. VASCHETTL
ig. FONTANA.

Mdle. CAROLINA
POCCHINI
(Of the Karnther Thor, Vi-
zinna ; La Scala, Milan ;
San Carlos, Naples ; Carlo
Felice, Genoa, &c.—her
first appearance).
Mdle. MARIE TAGLIOyI,
Mdle. BOSCHETTI,
Mdle. KATRINE,
Mdle. TERESA ROLLA
(Of La Fenice, Venice—her
first appearance).
Mdle. LUIGIA BRUNETTI
(Of the Carlo Felice, Genoa—
, her first appearance),

Mdle. ELISA SALVIONE
(Of La Scala, Milan—her first
appearance),
Mdle. GIUSEPPINA
MORLACCHI

(Of the Teatro. Regio, Turin—
her first appearance),
Mdle. ISABELLA KAR-

LISKI

(Of the Academie Imperiale,
Paris—her first appearance),
Mdle. CAROLINA PAS-
QUALI

(Of the Imperial Theatres of
Vienna and Milan her
first appearance),
And Madame ROSATI.

PAUL TAGLIONI,
Sig, RONANI,
M. CHARLES,
M. PIERRE MASSOT
(Of the Oriente, Madrid—his
first appearance),
Sig. FILIPO BARATTI
(His first appearance),

Sig. CASARE CHECCHETTI
(Ms first appearance).
Signori RAFFAELLE GAM-
BARDELLA, LUIGI VA-
RIM. LUIGI TURBINO,
and PIETRO BUZZIO (of
the Teatro Regio, Turin,
and Carlo Felice, Genoa—
their first appearance).
Maitres de Ballet--

Z. PAUL TAGLIONI, Sig. RONZANI, and M. MASSOT.
Regisseur tie la Dance—M. PETIT.
Master of the School of Instruction—M. MASSOT.

Madlle. PICCOLOMINI

Will arrive early in April, and, in addition to the characters
which last season she made her own, will appear in a varied
and attractive repertoire.

Madlle. SPEZIA '
Will have the honour to appear for the First Time at the
Opening of the Season in Donizetti's Opera of
LA. FAVORITA.

Immediately after
Madlle. ORTOLANI

Will make her first appearance asElvira, in Bellini's Oporaof

Elrim..
Arturo

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I PURITANI.
Mane. ORTOLANI.
Signor GIUGLINI.

Madame ALBONI
Will arrive before the Ist of May, and will make her first ap-
pearance this Season as Azucena, in Verdi's Opera of
IL TROVATORE.

The Union of Three of these distinguished Prime Donne,
Madlle. SPEZIA, Madlle. ORTOLAN', and Madlle. PIC-

COLOMINI,
Will be effected in Mozart's Opera of
IL DON GIOVANNI, '

Which will be produced with the perfection of ensemble and
details necessary to realise the intentions of its great author.
All the great Artistes of the Establishment will join in aiding
the efforts of the Director to do honour to the noble work of
the Shakspeare of music.