The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-02-20 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

TnE OPERA

Th 3 most attractive performaqce of the season was the one
a inouncedhr Monday night, the heroic opera of "Tanciedi,''
perhaps we might be justified in saying, " Signora Cesari,',
vho appeared in the part of that gallant and high-minded
:night, a nd made her first curtsey—obeisance we mean—since

he opening of the theatre under its present manager.

'mouse was full in every part, pit, boxes; and gallery, and the ap-
pearance of Tancredi on the stage was hailed with a warm and
cordial greeting. And well she repaid the welcome, for she was
never heard to greater advantage than in the scena "p patria,"
with which the part of Tancred open& As if inspired on the
occasion,
,Madame Kyntherland as Amenaide rose superior to
herself, and, sang with exquisite, taste, with Cesari, the duet,
"Se la tua bell' imagine." The gallant bearing of the youth-
ful knight Tancredi was admirably sustained by Cesari, who
appeared every way worth) of the hero's device-7." Faith and
honour." The scene in which .Tancredi challenges Orbazzano.
to mortal combat was perhaps the best in the piece. Amenaide
is the most perfect character we have seen l'iladame Knyther-
land perform as yet. But these remarks apply to the perform-
ance of Monday night only.

"Tancredi" was again repeated on Wednesday night. The
absence of Mr. Herrman, the leader of the band, produced the
confusion which is generally occasioned by the absence of the
legitimate andlicknowledged head of any band—whether the
band be ono of fiddlers or of republican banditti. We do not
know who grasped, on this occasion, the leader's bow, but we
could have bow:-stringed him for his want of command, and de-
cimated his followers for their intractable and disorderly con-
duct. It appeared as if the whole band aspired to the honour of
leading in turn, and there were some critics in the house who
asserted that the office had devolved upon the principal violon-
cello. Suffice it to say, that they contrived to jostle each other,
and confuse the singers through the first act; However, before
the commencement of the second act, the Marquis de Muti Pa-
pazurri took the command in person, and by so doing reduced the
refractory spirits of the orchestra to something like order. In

consequence of this change in the premiership the second act
went off mere smoothly than the first. The pieces encored on
Wednesday night were the duet (Kyntherland and desari)
" Se la tua bell' imagine;" quartett, (Deval, Galli, Cesari, and
Kyntherland,) "Gl' infelici affetti miei;" duet, (Ceshri and
Kyntherland,) " L'indegna ;" and the aria, (Kyntherland,)

"Alla gioja ed al piacer."
The comparative failure of the performance of Wednesday
was clearly wing to the absence of the leader of the band, hut
we have no doubt that the next representation will be superior
to the first. The part assigned to Deval was made the most of
by that gentleman. The only prominent characters are those
of Tancredi and knenaide. Cesari will, we hope, shortly ap-
pear in some of 141. other characters. She is a splendid singer,
and it is to be regretted that her range of parts is so circum-
scribed.