The New York herald., 1851-10-15
Madame Anna ThJ Ion.

The engagement OF this tipguished dramatic vocalist
at Niblo's, draws to a close To morrow evening she
makes her final appearance for the present. and performs
in the admired operetta entitled The Pride of the Hs-
rem taking the role Of Roxaana in which she will sing
Woman rules you STILL and scena from Auber. She
will also perform in the second act of The Daughter of
the Regiment in which she has already produced such
sensation. That opera written expressly for her
she is the original file du regiment and perhaps take her
all in all has been surpassed in that chars cter
Her Cat&rins however, in Crown Diam onds,r has been
equally popular here and by some preferred to her
performance of the Daughter Of the Regiment" In
the latter she has sung three times; in the
former six times, in New York. Never has any
operatic singer her class met with enthusiastic
reception been successful she has been for her
brief but splendid at Nblos She has charmed
all by the fsscinstions Of her beautiful tyeso grace
full natural expressive, and yet powerful Her
delicious voice is music itself and is only in harmony
with the radiant intelligence that beams from her syren
face, and speaks forcibly to the heart than any
form of words Of which human language is ;eptble
The beauty her countenance not vouptuous but u-
dicatve Of passion ate oveter piquept naivete Of
nerher exquisite tonesher captivating gestures-her
beautiful attitudes the ndescrbabe charm nature
that plays around her like halo Of light bcgung the
dience into the romen,ary belief that their senses
delighted with reality and not mere drama fic repre-
entation the stage, have been the theme Of every
tongue and have won for this gifted lady an immense
Night after nig hit the house has been crowded to
and tie paudit have been not merely the formal
ecgnon Of the presence Of genius but the warm and
spontaneous illusions Of the heart Such Is the toye
abe has created that Mr. Nblo who deserves Infinite
credit for his .hrewdpess in efecting cement
with this bright, particular star" desires to obtain
frt her immediate re-enragement but ber previous
arrangements made for Philadelphia Baltimore, and
other cities preclude the possibility Of New York
audieIce having her again for time to She
Of those few artists that weary by their
performances, because they true 10 nature, like
beautiful landscape which imparts pleasure every time
it beheld Hence the fact that she has performed
many two hundred tim in a single character, in
season, in London. In Paris, and in the British me-
tropolis. she has been equally triumphant, and the
critics Of both countries have been unanimous in
their judgment as to her Incompatible charms,
while the subtety and versatility OF those charms have
defed the art Of criticism snslyse them II is not this
that feature In her performance bat the ensJl
Ike the statue OF Nenuf de Medic-thst dazsles and
Madame Thillon was born In Calcutta, Of English pa
rents but brought up in France from the Of four
teen she made her dtuf AZ Clcrmont in the opera OF
lie Rossigno She afterwards appeared in Jean de
Paris in which che attracted the marked notice Of the
Trench critics and the public This the
OF victorious In France which succeeded by
equally isttering ore in England, having obtained
engagement 1t the Princess Theatre In London where
she made her first appearance in Grown Diamonas,n
creating an excitement scarcely ever surpassed by that
attending the performances of any other artist Her
in france aud England IL crowned by her tri.
umphs here which however have only commenced, for
there brilliant future before her. The artist that
produce such effects in the Old World and in the New
in the three greatest countries the face Of the Globe
differing In many respects in most remarkable degree
but AL unsbimou.ly conourring In their judgment y her
fsyor-must be more than Gn ordinary woman In Truth
Madame Thon possesses originality and genius n the
very bghsst order ard her gifts have been cultivated
with the most perfect finish She l. entirely uni
there being no other comic opera singer liz the world like
her.
wef,el utterly at loss for language to convey our
impressions Of the fair csntstrice. Criticism cannot
fully describe her To realize what she Is she must be
and hesrd in the Grown Diamonds or the Dsugh
ter Of the Regiment; and that only once but many
times for such l. the witcheIy o her charms that they
cannot he comprchended in single night Like
great picture. they must be taken separately and
In detail in order 20 obtain just idea OF the whole