The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-11-08 00:00:00

PROMENADE FOR QUARTER OF AN HOUR.

PART 11.
MADRIGAL " Come, let us join the roundelay"... Beale
GLEE . " See ! the chariot at hand" Horsley
SOLO—PIANO-FORTE....(ARTH UR NAPOLEON)
SONG (Mr. ARMSTRONG)
SERENADE `llless'd be the home" Benedict

- SUPPER.

MUSIC AND THE DRAMA.

ANNUAL CONCERT OF MRS. SCARISBRICK (LITE MISS
WIIITNALL.)—The grand annual concert, given by Mrs.
Scarisbrick, took place in the new Music-hall, Bold-street,
yesterday evening week. The fine hall was filled in all
parts, and presented a pleasing array of beauty and
fashion. The performers were Madame Grisi, Madame
Doria, Madame Dreyfus, Signor Mario, Signor Ciabatta,
and Mr. J. L. Hatton. Mrs. Scarisbrick, in a chaste and
animated style, sang Linley's ballul, " Ida," and also
joined Mr. Scarisbrick in singing the duet, " O'er Shep-
herd's Pipe" and in other pieces. High enthusiasm was
excited by the fine vocalization of Mario, which was in
all respects excellent. Grisi and the other artistes did
their devoirs in their usual able manner.
PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY'S CONCERT.—The seventh
concert for the season took place on Tuesday, when Mrs.
Endersohn, Mrs. Lockey, Mr. Lockey, Mr. Hobbs, and.
Mr. Henry Phillips sang the solos in "The First %Val-
purgis Night" of Mendelssohn in the first part, and
several glees, madrigals, and songs in the second. Men-
delssohn's highly characteristic and dramatic music was
given well. The second concert takes place on the 22d
inst., at which Madame Viardot Garcia will sing in the
oratorio of " Samson."

DIE THEATRE ROYAL has during the past week been
a place of captivating resort to the admirers of dramatic
music, the house having been occupied by an operatic
company of foreign artists, whose combined and individual
powers of execution have secured for them a hearty wel-
come, and a large attendance of enthusiastic admirers.
The company consists of Madame Caradori (prima donna),
Madlle. Zimmerman (seconda donna), Miss F. Huddart
(contralto), Herr Reichardt (primo tenore), and Herr
Formes (primo basso); besides other performers of acknow-
ledged excellence, and a chorus of good training and great
efficiency. The orchestra consists of thirty-four favourite
instruments, conducted with much skill and tact by M.
Anschuez, and it is ably led by Mr. Allwood. All the
appointments of the opera have been attended to with
care, and the style in which the various works have been
put upon the stage deserves very high commendation.
The performances during the past week have been four,
viz.: "Norma," in Italian, twice ; " Der Freischutz" in
German ; and "Lucrezia Borgia," in Italian. The first
named piece beimg performed on Monday and Friday, and
the others on Tuesday and Thursday, respectively. In
" Der Freischutz," the general performance was excellent,
the Agatha of Caradori being in most respects both pleas-
ing and effective; her singing of the fine aria, which is
rendered in the English version, " Say my heart why
wildly beating." was exceedingly sweet and expressive;
the bridesmaid's song, by Anne (Madlle. Zimmerman),
was thrillingly delightful. Both the character and music
of Max were well rendered by Herr Reichardt ; and as
Caspar, Herr Formes was not merely effective and strik-
ing, his acting and singing were in admirable keeping,
and: both great. On Thursday, Donizetti's grand opera of
" Lucrezia Borgia" was produced; and performed in a
style of great excellence ; the singing and acting of Cara-
dori, in Lucrezia, being artistic and dramatic in a very
high degree. Of Miss F. Huddart's Maffio Orsini it
would be difficult to speak too highly ; her performance
was impassioned and appropriate, her singing expressive
and correct. The Due Alfonso of Herr Formes was a
fine operatic effort, his voice telling beautifully in the solos
and also in the concerted pieces. The great efforts of this
very able and effective operatic corps have as yet, how-
ever, been devoted to the splendid opera of "Norma,"
in which the talents and musical acquirements of Madame
Caradori, as Norma, of Madlle. Zimmerman, as Adelgis,
and Herr Formes, as Oroveso;lave ample scope, and have
been freely displayed. The first-named lady has a figure
commanding in its aspect, and susceptible of manifesting
great dignity of deportment, dashed in effectiveness, it may
be, by action somewhat more redundant than graceful, yet
withal so full of passionate energy and earnestness as to ap-
proach the sublime. This was the character of both her act-
ing and singing throughout nearly the whole of the second
act, the wild, ringing, and tumultuary tones of her up-
braiding and defiance imparting a tragic grandeur to the
performance which
animalcoletely took the audience by sur-
prise, and called forth a propos, but enthusiastic,
encore, to the utter destruction of the dramatic effect of
the scene, and the discomfiture of the continuity of the
music and libretto; the triumph of Madame Caradori,
although deserved, was thus purchased at far too high a
price. The duet between Norma and Adelgis, at the
opening of the same act, was also rapturously encored—a
compliment paid to the tender sweetness of expression
infused into the music by Madlle. Zimmerman, but almost
as detrimental to the truthfulness of the scene and inci-
dent, as that to which we have already accorded censure.
In an English drama, what could be conceived more truly
absurd than an encore of the quarrel scene between
" Brutus and Cassius?" or to insist upon Hamlet reme-
ditating the philosophical soliloquy, " To be, or not to be ?"
Yet, how would either of these be more ridiculous than
the cases we have referred to ? unless, indeed, we are
to suppose that in the one instance the sound conveys
no sense to the understanding, but merely tickles the ear,
a sensation the auditor is desirous of having repeated;
while in the other, having both his ear and understanding
addressed, he readily perceives the preposterousness of
having an incident, however agreeably presented, repro-
duced. The Oroveso of Herr Formes was in all respects
admirable. His rendering of the solo parts was as indi-
cative of the finished artist, as it was of the accomplished
musician and the effective actor ; while in the concerted
pieces, and even in the choruses, his powers were tastefully,
yet tellingly, displayed. The tenor part of Pollio was
well supported by Herr Reichardt, whose voice, with not
a few natural disqualifications, nevertheless rendered both
pleasing and valuable by his culture and intuitive good
taste, manifested on most occasions, except in the some-
times seemingly haphazard introduction of his falsetto.
He would do well to reform this, if an accidental vice.
The other performers acquit themselves in a manner most
satisfactory, and the public of Liverpool can hardly hope
to have a better opportunity of listening to operatic music
than that now afforded to them.
AT THE ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, Mr. G. V. Brooke
has been repeating the performance of several of his best
characters to good and warmly approving audiences. He
still retains that popularity the prestige of his London
fame has brought with it, and, being an actor of sterling
ability, we trust he will long continue in its enjoyment.

A LADY, on Friday evening, when crossing the river in
the Monks' Ferry-boat, had her pocket picked of a purse,
containg a ring and £5.
TUB CHURCH OF ENGLAND INSTITUTION has received
a valuable donation of books, presented to the library by
Dr. Fisher, of Great George-street.
NEW TRIAL.—In the case of " Greenfield v. Sykes,"
tried at the last Court of Passage, the Court of Queen's
Bench, on Friday, granted a rule to show cause why a
new trial should not be had.
A PLEASING LETTER has been received by the Work-
house authorities from one of the girls who were sent last
year to Australia. She is married to a German, and is
doing well ; the other emigrants, also, are likely to succeed.
JosErn MAnaiorr, the commander of the brig United,
of Liverpool, has been committed for trial at Melbourne,
on the charge of drunkenness and negligence on board.
FlRE.—°n Wednesday night a fire broke out on the
premises of Mr. Lever, haberdasher, Elme-buildings,
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SALE OF ARTILLERY BY AUCTION.—An extraordinary
sale by auction took place last month at Jamaica, within
the hall of the Government Building, consisting of " all
the brass cannon and mortars"
at present existing in the
citadels and fortresses of Panama, Porto Bello, and Chagres,
by order of the governor, and is described as " excellent
metal."

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