The Sun.
London, England, 1845-07-08 00:00:00

SURREY THEATRE.

The op- ra sea:-on at this popular theatre commeneel
last evening. The artistes engaged are Madame Eugenia
Garcia, Miss Collett, Mr. 1). W. King, Mr. Barker, Mr.
hi'Mahon, Mr. Weiss, and Mr. A. Harris. The opera
last evening was Donizetti's chef dceuvre, Lucia di Lam-
tne,n oor, and never have the beauties of that superb
opera been thoroughly appreciated even by the habitues
of her Majesty's Theatre, than they were by the Surrey
audience of last evening. We were delighted to observe
the attention and the taste of the audience. It was evi-
dent not only that they enjoyed the opera, but that they
understood the music—they always applauded at the
right places. The production and the success of this
opera at the Surrey marks a great advance in the musi-
cal taste of the English public. The experiment was a
hazardous one. It was the first attempt at the pro-
duction of an opera without dialogue at the
Surrey, but its success proves that the management has
done right in calculating upon the musical taste of the
Surrey audience. Madame Eugenia Garcia was the
Lucia ; and the simple announcement of the fact is suf-
ficient to assure every one that the character of Lucia
was admirably sustained. Never have we heard Garcia,
in better voice, and never did she throw into the ex-
pressive music of the part more intensity of feeling than
she did last night. The Edgardo of King was a careful
and excellent performance. He had studied the
score carefully, and gave the music as well as any ac-
complished musician could give it. Weiss's fine bass
voice told well in Ravenswood ; and Barker made more
of the little part of Arthur than has ever been made of
it by any of his predecessors. He was deservedly encored
in one delighful air which he introduced into the part.
The orchestra, under the direction of Mr. Loder, was
very good. The piece was put upon the stage with the
treatest possible care and attention. All the principal
performers were called before the curtain at the conclu-
sion of the opera. The Waterman followed, in which
Barker sustained his favourite character of Tom Tug ;
and a new melodrama, entitled Faith, Hope, and Charity,
concluded the performance. The house was crowded to
excess in every part.

THE WHITE SLAVE; OR, THE RUSSIAN PEASANT
GIRL.—The author of " Revelations of Russia"—a work
which has been so universally read and admired—has
again adventured into the same almost boundless regions,
with a wit as playful and brilliant, a descriptive power
as versatile and graphic, an insight into character as
searching, and a fund of information as varied and as
fertile, as have been already displayed by him, to the
great delight and edification of the reading public. The
present work, " The White Slave," takes the popular
and attractive form of a three volume novel. The story
is ingeniously worked out, and the interest so well sus-
tained, that a reader would almost wish, if possible, to
finish the work at a sitting. The melancholy condition
of the white slave of Russia, was never drawn in truer
or more affecting colours. The misery, the degrada-
tion, the cruelties to which that helpless race are ex-
posed, as well as the fatalism which preys upon their
minds, are all delineated with a power and vividness of
description that fully entitles the author to take a high
place amongst the most distinguished writers of the day.
—Sunday Times.

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