New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-12-28

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be performed again this evening.
A, wAL1AcK's there will be four pieces the o''
farce POPPING the Question, by Blake, Mrs B'onsu
and others ;'"My Christmas Dinner" new farce Oy
Lester. Hale and con pany Mysterious Rapp'ns''
the new fairy sketch, by Blake. Mss MAyim ana ass's
ante and The Happy Nm" by Broushani' CniPpen
dale, and company. These pieces furnish iun enough
for one evening.
AT BURROWS the laughahle and picturesque piece
called Paris and London" viii be repeated with Iae
addition Of the popular extravaganza Ore Ihoussui
Millipers Wanted Burton appears In both pieces Shi
Placide in the fret Tie panoramic voyage IN fAf's
and London is a splendid piece of scenery.
At BARNuns we notice the usual great variety OF
holiday attractions including the romantic drama Of
THE Forty Thieves &c. The Sea Tiger Is stl! mere
and so is Gen. TEN Thumb.
A. HyLLrR's Saloon Of Wonders, we have his re-
marknble performances in Scientific and Natural Magic
Second Sight &c. &c.
Az The CIRCUS the Juveniles AMI adults a. well are
cckinc to see the special performances for the season.
RAHvAsp's PANORAMA is the resort OF gresi NUMBERS
of uptown people.
RRy.s's GALLERY is feature Of Broadway worth
looking it.
woop's MrxsrRErs present the usual variety OF mel
ody and fun.
THE OPERL-MADAME ALBONI-The posi-
ton Of music in regard other arts is oy
the fact that the composition itsel-wreakcd on paper
in all the generous flow and fecundity OF scnius-i'
dead show as nieless as hieroylyphc pigment on the
sarcorhagus, until the interpreting aristthe singer or
payer-comes to the rescue and puts his fire behind
lyrical picture light up for the admiration Of the
world How dHerentths from the work Of the statuary
or painter whenthe marble Is carved-whentae Oym-
plan ront-the classic line of beautythe bow-mouth,
the limbs in the muscular decision of manhood IN the
feminine wave of loneliness severay hewn out OF
the fair material the work Of the artist Is done and CO.
temporary and postery called upon to consderthe
finished work So too when graphic art has shed color
form and combination the canvass, the task Ia
achieved the artist may yspose and the world may al
mrc But 10 revert to our first postion-rnusic, and
above all dramatic music, requires word-a heaven
of intervention to make it Ineligible. The best works
have rotted do rot and rot nuty dusty shelves
for the want of such Interpretation aud the genius TO
recognise their unung beauties IL almost as rare as
that required TO produce them outright. Hence all
musical history is link of artistic sorrows; OF
poor Mozarts, CT starving Schuberts, of swaggering
critics who cannot read manuscripts, ofsaucy singers
of stupid publics Some composers have contrived in
a shopkeeping boodlettiDg age to keep themselves
above the depths Of squalor by trucking to fashion, by
writing canticles for churches rampant or birthday
snd marriage odes for hereditary rufans called kings
or big paans for human slaughter dgnfed by the name
Of glory 1t remark OF the greatest historian as
well rs the greatest novelist that America has produced
Cooper, that there is of wondering that Milton
only received five pounds for his Paradise Lost for
were the great poet living now he would ge no more,
perhaps not so much. The rule will apply to
composers about whom there ia so much wretched
can't Beethovens dirty garnet would be many shades
dnter ard several stories higher did he depend for
sstentaton ofthe unbought othe American
public and with others who being deed are en-
yeoped in halo of cheap admiration. When Mr.
Piokwick, Mr.. Tupman, Mr.. Wrinkle, and Mr..
Snodgrass were about to make their celebrated tour
OF observation the Pickwick Club passed reso-
luton that those gentlemen should have the priv
ilege of paying their own travelling expenses.-
Now any one who wishes to make illustrations-sta-
tionary not peripateticfort the will be
permitted to pay his expenses. This is evident in
the career of operadirection in this City though in
one instance the details far superior to those of
the Italian Opera at Psrs it failed did not reach
second season While six thousand tavern bars distl
damnation no altar the muses to teach us taste,
smenty, and render art sacred, burns with steady
fame.
was put on the stage last night at the Broadway Thea
terof the appointments the accessories these bits OF
preliminary Logic must be borne in mind. lt very
easy to be trenchant in criticism 1t requires no effort
to ay that an orchestra and chorus should be fuller,
that the rehearsal should have been extended over
several weeks to perfection, and forth The
whole thing lies in the question, will the public in
Thea;ers Of the size and under the present sys
tenn pay for anything betterl Until they show that
they will there is in picking holes in the per
Torrance last night.
Madame Alboni is great artist: the suifrages she
has won in the concert room extended the thea
ter She enjoyed triumph last night Not that the
applause equally steady throughout but il culmi'
mated gloriousy at the fnale-and she brought be-
fore the curtanend then the prompter was obliged to
ring up, and her allegro repeated This artist
came in the nick of time conrato writing from
becoming almost obsolete The several absolute or
quasi contrsto parts which the ecund and aord Ros
sini has written, find continuity in the present
treatment of dramatic voices Meyerbeers Prophetic
is bare exception, fone-for that Is mainly declsma-
tory and characterized by sobrety which paints the
mother in that Casa distinction In the lyrical
drann for tbs tove I is love that makes the OF
harmony 20 round. Where decamatory writing de-
mands one note ford asks for four or twenty four
and these must be linked in inexpugnable accuracy
In the coniralto region of her voice Madame Albon
fills up the cars craving. 1t is true hers Ia not
masculine voice; it does no. assume the
fbrous energy which tradition assigns to Pisaroni
But it is ripe and usciousemninet to the last degree
md full of youth and love. When Rossini stops the
torrent of his foriurto throw in phrase Of tender.
ness--of sensususness which he SO well knows how
to express--then particularly does the womany rips-
ness the musical rudsness and voluptuousness of Mad
anne Alboni forth In evidence of this, take the
beautiful phrase, when Cinderella is all affection and
forgiveness for her hardheared, fashionable sisters
and asinine papa and riU love them spite Of their
wounded pride and relentless Jealousy.
The voice of Madame Alboni is remarkable as to
cnnass Il reaches Ia on the third LEDGER Line Of the