Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1854-06-20
arisi-He, Withdrawal from tho Sac.


Eleven representations more and the greatest
of prima donnas-the greatest artist, yocally and
dramatically, that the world ever saw-withdraws
from the scene of witch she has so long been the
queen. As may be imagined,the scene on Thurs
day night, when she appeared in Norma, was OF
II character seldom witnessed. As soon as the
intelligence of Madame Crisis appearance had
been promulgated, the box Office became crowd
ed with eager applicants for boxes and stalls;but
the demand was SO great that very many went a
way unable to procure places. In the interior of
the house. tier after tier was crowded from the
pit to the Nack tiers of the amphitheatre, the
grand an, rst tiers displaying brilliant assem-
hinge of the aristocracy of England. When Nor
ma appeared, the canping of hands and the wa
wing of hats and kercniffs, Indicated the thorough
heartiness OF the greeting which welcomed Grisi
back.
Again and again were the acclamations raised;
and it was several minutes before order could be
restored. But the first notes of 'Gasta Diva"
heard amid breathless silence. suficed to prove
that the voice of Madame Grisi is as pure, as pow
eria and as iaultless in its intonaton as it ever
was;and the applause after the prayer was almost
as great as at the RECEIPT on. As tie opera pro-
crossed, Crisis voice became more rich and pow
erful, and the ''Casta Diva" was sung with her
usual fervor of expression aud brllianey of exc
Gu io1,
In sober truth and metaphor apart the career
of Grisi can scarcely find parallel III the histo-
ry of that art of which she has been the most dis
tinguishcd ornament. She did not come forward
in this country an aspirant--a beglnner-but
rs n primd do na dsSoiutd, her right to which
high station she trumphanty asserted, before the
most biaSe and difficult audience in Europe, by
her peri ,rmance of Ninetta, in Rossini's La Ga
! n Laura, in the year , and which she has
ever since sustained, both in tragedy and comedy
| to her own honor and the satisfaction of the pub
! lie. How many of what the world has called
great artists" has Grisi seen appear shine for a
space, and disappear to be forgotten, while hen
own light burnt st, adly eyerl The stan
that never once waned even before the blazing
glory of the comet denny Lind whose brightness
was multiplied Thousand times by the telescope
of fanatcsm through which the general eye wa,
taught to gaze upon thrust, indeed, have beer
Il star of the first magnitude, Il fixed star in the
atmosphere of popular affection. That Grisi sur
yiyed the Lind tever,and came forth at the end g
it without her artistic stature being diminished
one hairs breadth, none can have forgotten
Still the Norma the Lucretia the Anna, and the
| Semiramde of former years-the high souleC
| Druidess self sacrificed to love, the wicked Ouch
ess whom maternal affection alone renders hui
man. the proud and unhappy spouse of the mos
changeful and unscrupulous of monarchs, tn,
naughty and terrible Assyrian Queen, whom, while
the author made a myth, the actress made wo
man, breathing life into an abs raetion-Grisi, a,
always, peerless. continued to enchal't her hear
ers us she had done before the epidemic sezeC
tpon the public mind.